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I would appreciate opinions on the quality of this bore, I hope the pictures are good enough to tell.
I could have been more clear I guess, I keep seeing terms like dark, shiny and wear so I was looking to get
a visual point of reference due to my lack of experience.
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Mr too. The more you shot and clean, the better it will look. A couple of quarts of boiling water through it after a good long shooting session followed by a normal cleaning and you'll be happy. Your rifle will be happy too.
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My opinion is that it has rifling and will likely shoot. I don't see any pitting or rust right off, so what is it?
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Where did the pictures go? Are you sure? Could be a pistol. Looked not to bad if you ask me but i am blind as a bat and can't see during the day.
The commerce which maybe carried on with the people inhabiting the line you will pursue renders a knowledge of these people important ~Thomas Jefferson~ (to- Lewis and Clark)
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
It is hard to tell from just looking at one. Go shoot it. That will be the true test. I have a Chinese T-53, that to look at, you would think what a POS, but it shoots good.
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Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
Bores look like bores. Bores sometimes shoot like they don't look so I sort of look at a bore and then shoot it to see how it does it's job. I have seen veritable mine fields that really do the job time after time and boggle my mind as to how they do such a great job and look so bad. I have had some bores look spotless and pristine and they won't shoot well at all. So the look of a bore over the years has become secondary. Bill
A bore that's been shot out but never rusted will look clean and shiny but keyhole every round, while a dark bore may still have sharp rifling and shoot well.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt