So any insight as to what dark colored magic was in the bore? NeoLube?Greg, I have a PacNor twisted 1:18 on my new Hunter gun chambered in 30BR. Interestingly, it came with a dark colored bore which PacNor advised me was a process they do to aid in break in. Now, I have my own way of conditioning a bore before firing a shot that shortens the break in.But on this one, I decided to follow their advice for break in.
After the 6th shot, it completely quit fouling. The dark lands and grooves are now shiny.
No idea...not sure I'd call it "magic". It broke in nicely...just as I would have expected from any high quality lapped barrel. When we 'break in' a barrel, we're really just working on the edges left after the chambering. I put another 15 rounds through it the other day. Cleaned up beautifully.
My uncle had a savage 257 stw prefit barrel made by paynor. The chamber was banana shaped. He called them about it. They asked if he reloaded his own ammo. He replied yes and the they told him that voids his warranty and refused to do anything about the barrel.
They were 10 weeks in on my barrel when I heard the news about the fire. I just knew my barrel was burned, Kathy called me a few weeks later to tell me my barrel was one of five that survived because mine was out being fluted!
I have a friend in Humboldt who uses pacnor,before fire he had a photo from the varment hunters in Afghanistan saying thanks for the barrels. So the military snipers must be using them.
great shooting!!!! Robinette reamer version 1 or 2?Cold, windy and nasty day today but I decided to take the gun out and just get it on paper at 100....no flags. We're supposed to have some moderate winds a couple days next week so this would streamline things. Hung my normal black Sharpie blob at 100, bore sighted the gun and fired one. Then two more. That didn't take long.
