One thing I do when evaluating guns is considering a value on my time as well as keeping track of what it's costing me to chase down a problem. Unless you have a range in your backyard, you're going to quickly find that between gas to get to the range and component costs you're out $100 before you know it. Then putting a value on your time for developing loads and going the range you could easily say you're out $300 or more.
A long way of saying if the gun isn't doing what you want, cut your losses and ship it out for a new match grade barrel. It'll likely shoot even better than it has in the past, you'll know that you've got a good 2000-3000 rounds of life left in it and you're not wasting your time chasing your tail.
This is a great post IMHO,and articulates the "issue" really well.
My recent 270 experience agrees with this and I was back and forth to the range anyway for other rifles....but they formed a comparative basis for determining that the barrel was just gone.They showed it was not "me" that was the problem.
But 458 Lott is right....it isn't hard to eat up the cost of a rebarrel job in time and components chasing your tail.
Sometimes we hang in there with a barrel, like Flinch did with that 22-250,or I did with the 270.....kinda hard to let go at times but time and components are expensive, too.
IIRC it was Burton Spiller who wrote that life is too short to spend with a bad bird dog...
