strange gouge inside bore

[DShortt]

I sent the company an email with the pictures, they seemed surprised at the mark because a defect like that would likely be caught with a rod and patch or even potentially interfere with their air gauging equipment. But they said to send it back and they’d take a look. I got a phone call from the guy inspecting it about a week ago and he said that they couldn’t for sure determine what caused it, he also said he really didn’t see how anything I would have done could have caused it either, So they would build me a new barrel. I haven’t got the new one yet….

No way could you have done that aside from maybe a carbide burr in a Dremel or something. Pretty sure you didn't do that.

Keep us posted on how it goes.

 

[michaelb]

I sent the company an email with the pictures, they seemed surprised at the mark because a defect like that would likely be caught with a rod and patch or even potentially interfere with their air gauging equipment. But they said to send it back and they’d take a look. I got a phone call from the guy inspecting it about a week ago and he said that they couldn’t for sure determine what caused it, he also said he really didn’t see how anything I would have done could have caused it either, So they would build me a new barrel. I haven’t got the new one yet….

Cal F, that sounds like good news.

 

[Cal F]

I’ll give a quick update. The company sent me a new barrel, I bore scoped it before I screwed it on and everything looked ok (no big gouges). I’ve got about 100 rounds on the barrel doing some load testing and I think I found a pretty good combo.

The groups are ten shots each, the top group was one of three different combos I tried one day, it was the best so I went out and tried it again and shot the bottom group.

That’s about as good as I could hope for from a budget barrel.

So in conclusion, the company made it right and now I have a good shooting coyote rifle….

 

[Sub_Elect]

That’s crazy! Great groups and great customer service. Glad it’s hammering

 

[Dusty Stevens]

Thats awesome. Glad you got it goin your way

 

[Tparrish]

Yep that's what matter's. They made it right. Even though the extra down time is aggravating.

 

[DShortt]

Looks really good to me. Glad things worked out so well.

 

[michaelb]

looks like some Coyotes might be lying down. Good work and nice rifle.

 

[SSL]

Sounds like they did the right thing...as did you for allowing them to respond and not flaming them by name without giving them a chance. Way too much of that here. Nice to see a reasonable buyer who shows class. Hope it continues to shoot well for you.