Thread: What Copper Bullet Fouling, looks like

I doubt any one has had any thing close to the factory barrel on my Barrett 98B in 338 Lapua magnum, it was still badly copper fouling after 700 rounds, by that stage I was only using it for muzzle brake testing...

Right from the start it was a piece of shit, it had radial machining marks visible in the muzzle & the chamber, that was severly over sized as well.

I broke it in properly, or tried to....after that failed miserably I used Final Finish, Autosol, JBs, Scotch bright, etc etc etc

It would shoot well for a few rounds then......poos.

I would clean it, it would take 7-10 rounds to settle down, then 7-10 would be acceptable, then it was time to clean again....

Here it is after cleaning, a couple of weeks after I got it......



Barrett promised me a new barrel a year or so ago......still waiting.....when I get seriously bored I will stir it up again, no good doing it on Barretts own forum because they remove or shuffle things around.....

At great cost I bought a beautiful big Lija barrel & got it fitted to the 98B chambered in 338 Norma & it shoots mint, sub moa as far as I have shot it , with more speed than the Lapua

The 338 True Flight barrels I have had so far have been fantastic to break in, faster than the other 338 barrels I have used.

I will have more to break in shortly in chambered in 338 Edge, looking forward to running in a couple more 26" ones