I am surprised on the continuing problem here, when I received my 24B 30-06 I noticed a small area were the paint was rubbed off and were the paint had stuck to the barrel when I disassembled it to clean it. After hunting season I sent it back and after checking it out they believed the gun was assembled and packaged to soon after being painted. They striped it, re-primed and painted it, new paint job is perfect just like my 25-06 24B.
I had both of my Forbes 24B's out to the range yesterday although I reload my hunting ammo I wanted to try I couple of factory lead free loads in the 30-06. Surprised on how well it shot all three factory loads. The Hornady GMX and Barnes T-TSX both shoot under a inch and nearly the same POI while the Federal Trophy Copper was 1.5 MOA.
