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This is the kinda situation where a borescope comes into it's own. Until you see, you're just guessing.
If the OP could find a good bud with one, a lot of these questions would get answered. In the meantime, I'd clean it and try it. With a lot of copper, try Wipeout. Two or three treatments should get even the heaviest copper fouling out of there.
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I'd give a go with copper solvents and then give it 100 back and forth passes with JB paste on patches wrapped on a nylon brush, replacing the patch every 10 passes or so. If it doesn't improve significantly, I would go straight to a new barrel.
Now with even more aplomb
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2,000 to 2,500 .300 Wby. cases.
Man, you got some serious money invested just in brass. At a buck fifty a pop, that's enough to buy several rifles.
Why would you want that many Wby. cases?
Just asking out of curiosity. To me a couple hundred would be a bunch.
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Cleaning it is going to be a waste of time and energy. He's shot it out. All the symptoms point that way: It shot fine for over 2000 rounds and then quit. With a .300 Weatherby he doesn't have to look through a borescope. It's toast.
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Selling a few hundred cases would pay for a barrel.
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Selling all but 100 might pay for a safari!
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Selling all but 100 might pay for a safari! 
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$3,600 for the video kit. Now I know why I didn't get one...  DF
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Cleaning it is going to be a waste of time and energy. He's shot it out. All the symptoms point that way: It shot fine for over 2000 rounds and then quit. With a .300 Weatherby he doesn't have to look through a borescope. It's toast. I endorse this post. Travis
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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Selling all but 100 might pay for a safari! Laughin'... That's what I thought when I read his post. That schit could cover a deevorce! Travis
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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Send it back to Paso Robles and allow Weatherby to gloat over the rounds you believe she has lasted for, if you write a story and get a better handle on round count, they may rebarrel it for free to use in their next Sales Catalog.
I'd expect most any Weatherby caliber to be lucky to have a throat in the first 6 inches past the case with that many rounds fired, can you say "SUBSTANTIALL LONG FREEBORE" , even for a weatherby, lol
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Which is why I asked how much it had been shot, instead of suggesting he just give it a good scrubbing. John, it probably looks like a smooth bore, or atleast the linda love lace throat does  ....
I try to stick with the basics, they do so well. Nothing fancy mind you, just plain jane will get it done with style. You want to see an animal drop right now? Shoot him in the ear hole. BSA MAGA
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Selling all but 100 might pay for a safari! Laughin'... That's what I thought when I read his post. That schit could cover a deevorce! Travis Hopefully she don't know their worth, otherwise it will be "I want half of everything, including the Weatherby brass!"
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I got around 2000 to 2500 empty cases. I reload usually 500 to 1000 at a time. Most of the time 500 cases at a time. All the cases were bought loaded and then shot. Then I used them for reloading. mostly 180 grain bullets. I am not sure how many rounds have been shot. But it has been a bunch. If a 22 rifle wasn't enough I grabbed the 300 WBY. Why? Because it kills what ever a can hit. It goes out shooting when I go out shooting. Time for a new tube. Congratulations. 
The 280 Remington is overbore.
The 7 Rem Mag is over bore.
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I bought most of the cases years ago. The weatherby ammo was expensive then so bought it when ever I could get a good price. Now days I would probably sell the rifle if I didn't already have plenty of cases. I also brought the dies and a press to load with. Sure makes ammo cheap compared to today's prices. Even brass is expensive.
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A new barrel is cheap when I compare it to a new Mark V ultra lite.
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I got around 2000 to 2500 empty cases. I reload usually 500 to 1000 at a time. Most of the time 500 cases at a time. All the cases were bought loaded and then shot. Then I used them for reloading. mostly 180 grain bullets. I am not sure how many rounds have been shot. But it has been a bunch. If a 22 rifle wasn't enough I grabbed the 300 WBY. Why? Because it kills what ever a can hit. It goes out shooting when I go out shooting. Time for a new tube. Congratulations. Yeah, sitting on $4,000 of .300 Wby. brass, he'd for sure have to go back with that round... DF
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mtnsnake,
Weatherby might rebarrel your rifle pretty inexpensively, and in my experience the recent Weatherby barrels are very good. A lot of companies will rebarrel their rifles, but only to the same chambering as the original barrel. (This prevents rifle loonies from changing barrels all the time when they get bored.)
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Cleaning a barrel is free. Still say it is worth a shot.
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