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Originally Posted by Redneck
Which reminds me - about a week ago I had a customer send a BACO M70 to me for some work.. Upon inspection (this was a brand-new rifle right outta the box) I happened to notice what appeared to be a gap between barrel and receiver.. A .002 feeler gauge confirmed it; the tip penetrated that gap by about .020-.025 before it stopped.. I.e., either the receiver or the shank's shoulder was not machined correctly. ... WTH??? As to the BACOs, I'm totally underwhelmed... smile


Will the gap cause the rifle to have accuracy problems??


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Originally Posted by Dixie_Rebel
Originally Posted by Redneck
Which reminds me - about a week ago I had a customer send a BACO M70 to me for some work.. Upon inspection (this was a brand-new rifle right outta the box) I happened to notice what appeared to be a gap between barrel and receiver.. A .002 feeler gauge confirmed it; the tip penetrated that gap by about .020-.025 before it stopped.. I.e., either the receiver or the shank's shoulder was not machined correctly. ... WTH??? As to the BACOs, I'm totally underwhelmed... smile


Will the gap cause the rifle to have accuracy problems??


I'm not redneck, but have you ever heard of blueprinting a rifle? Generally you face the receiver to barrel mating surfaces. Redneck can answer more about this, but when you blueprint a receiver/true things up, it definitely helps with accuracy. I have one semi custom that fine detail like this went into it, along with proper glass bedding and match grade barrel. Even though it is a belted magnum, it shoots like this:
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Day in and day out, this rifle shoots this way because it doesn't suffer from some of the anomolies Redneck found with that BACO.


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Thanks BSA, hopefully Lee can shed some light on it. I'm very curious.


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Originally Posted by Dixie_Rebel
Originally Posted by Redneck
Which reminds me - about a week ago I had a customer send a BACO M70 to me for some work.. Upon inspection (this was a brand-new rifle right outta the box) I happened to notice what appeared to be a gap between barrel and receiver.. A .002 feeler gauge confirmed it; the tip penetrated that gap by about .020-.025 before it stopped.. I.e., either the receiver or the shank's shoulder was not machined correctly. ... WTH??? As to the BACOs, I'm totally underwhelmed... smile


Will the gap cause the rifle to have accuracy problems??
That's hard to say - it just really surprised me since these have been touted to be the best thing since sliced bread.. All I can say is that I always machine a new face on the receiver before the barrel's installed. I start the cutter at the inside and retract the cross slide towards the outside.. That leaves a perfectly perpendicular surface to the axis of the action.

The barrel's shoulder cut is done the same way to ensure those two surfaces squarely meet.


There's many ways to skin that cat, but that's how I've done it for more than two decades and to date it's worked well.


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That receiver / barrel mismatch is not good at all and you wonder how many others are like that that have never been inspected.
Are the BACO gun parts manufactured in the USA & then assembled in Portugal? What is the chain of custody on the BACO manufacturing process?

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