My new next door neighbor found out I shoot ml's and brought his over for my opinion. Now, I have no problem giving my opinion, just ask my wife. However, I need to defer to those on the site with a little more knowledge than I.
He has an older TC Contender rifle with a 209x50 barrel. At some point, he did'nt clean it well enough and it appears to have some minor rusting just past the breechplug. Within one inch of where the rifling begins. the rest of the barrel is pristine.
I thought it was just some carbon buidup, but after usung every cleaner I have for rifle barrels, it just wont come out. Even used a small metal pick to try to break it up, but could actually feel it was pitting at that point.
What he wanted to know was this.
Will it have any effect on the accuracy of the barrel?
Is it going to keep eating away at the barrel?
Can it be stopped or slowed down?
I shoved a sabot and bullet slowly down the barrel to see if I could feel any resistance when it got to the rust spots, and could'nt actually feel any difference throughout the lenghth of the barrel.
I did show him my bottle of BH209.
Thanks for any help you have. And please don't tell my wife I was struggling with an opinion.
He has an older TC Contender rifle with a 209x50 barrel. At some point, he did'nt clean it well enough and it appears to have some minor rusting just past the breechplug. Within one inch of where the rifling begins. the rest of the barrel is pristine.
I thought it was just some carbon buidup, but after usung every cleaner I have for rifle barrels, it just wont come out. Even used a small metal pick to try to break it up, but could actually feel it was pitting at that point.
What he wanted to know was this.
Will it have any effect on the accuracy of the barrel?
Is it going to keep eating away at the barrel?
Can it be stopped or slowed down?
I shoved a sabot and bullet slowly down the barrel to see if I could feel any resistance when it got to the rust spots, and could'nt actually feel any difference throughout the lenghth of the barrel.
I did show him my bottle of BH209.
Thanks for any help you have. And please don't tell my wife I was struggling with an opinion.