Thread: Reloading Poser

My first introduction to the use of a bore scope,hell I didn't even realise they can give you a side view of the bore so bit of an educational.As I say my experience with the sport is pulling the trigger on live animals to convert them into dead animals.Don't really lean towards the geeky side of the whole field.Not that there's anything wrong if it floats your boat.Anon explained to me what I was seeing thru the bore scope,and he immediately focused on the muzzle end.He quickly passed over viewing the Throat.We could see pitting from the throat all the way to the crown.With my untrained eye in the small .224 bore combined with my poor vision I couldn't even see the pitting without the instrument.This surprised me as I consider I,m not slack with firearm maintenance ,if indeed the pitting was a result of poor cleaning ,oiling ,etc following hunting in the rain.His trained eye quickly concluded that the barrel was done due mostly to the level of pitting.So another lesson learnt today.Pitting (if u can see it)= loss of accuracy whereas I understood it was more about wear on the lands & crown
that was the primary reason for accuracy loss.Once I get the old barrel back ,I could possibly take a closer look of the throat to understand the extent of erosion but probably don't have the talent to decipher what I'm seeing