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Being a truck gun, was it fired with a slight obstruction from the truck's floor?

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Previous owner didn't shoot it that much, the rifling looks fine. I had cleaned it previously but did so again and used some foaming bore cleaner on it to see if it showed any copper. Came out without a trace of blue. Going to retorque the action screws and shoot some 150's through it tonight.

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A bore brush, some patches, and a couple of dabs of JB would have the cleaning question settled pretty quick be it metal fouling, carbon, or whatever.

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The barrel should be fine unless he has shot several thousand rounds. I would say in excess of 5-8 thousand unless he just kept shooting with a very hot barrel. There have been reports of barrels shooting 10-30 thousand rounds with virtually no loss of accuracy in a 308.

Double check the crown first, check the ignition and possibly put a new spring in it. Check scope and mounting again. Do a deep clean with copper solvent that sits in the barrel, and clean until all traces of copper are gone. This may take a couple of days.

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Originally Posted by R_H_Clark
The barrel should be fine unless he has shot several thousand rounds. I would say in excess of 5-8 thousand unless he just kept shooting with a very hot barrel. There have been reports of barrels shooting 10-30 thousand rounds with virtually no loss of accuracy in a 308.

Double check the crown first, check the ignition and possibly put a new spring in it. Check scope and mounting again. Do a deep clean with copper solvent that sits in the barrel, and clean until all traces of copper are gone. This may take a couple of days.


Cut to the chase: bore brush, patches, JB compound.

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I know you said you re-crowned the barrel but what did that entail. I would throw my money on the crown still being buggered up. Fouling causing that kind of issues don't seem too likely to me. I mean I have seen accuracy diminish with fouling but to the point of taking a sub moa shooter to a 4-6moa gun...








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Have smith check to see if the barrel has loosened up had a guy on another site have his 1/2 moa gun go to crap and the barrel backed off slightly. Tightened it and its back to a 1/2 moa gun.

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