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Reply #30 - Nov 30th, 2021 at 6:22pm
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Nice target Jack and nice shooting as well. Are you sure that 23 was you or possibly the barrel itself. I assume this is a 32-40 is that possibly correct or is it possibly not. I once won a GM barrel blank and it had the same habit of doing the same thing but even worst.
  
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Reply #31 - Nov 30th, 2021 at 6:44pm
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My rifle will throw shots low right if I apply any perceptible cheek pressure on the stock.  It is usually not that far out, but it is easy to reproduce.  Now I have a beard so I can just tickle it safely.  Yes, it is a 32-40.

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Reply #32 - Nov 30th, 2021 at 6:59pm
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The rifle still shoots good despite a bore looking like this.

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Reply #33 - Dec 1st, 2021 at 11:28am
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Looks good to me Jack I have seen allot worst that still shoot lights out. I have never looked down one of my own. I looked at a friends who just bought a Hawkeye Bore Scope and what he saw crawled into his head. Rifle wouldn't shoot after that and he was always the one at the top to have to beat. When it came time to look at mine I said no thank you I didn't even want to know what mine looked like after seeing his.
  
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Reply #34 - Dec 1st, 2021 at 12:31pm
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bpjack wrote on Nov 30th, 2021 at 6:59pm:
The rifle still shoots good despite a bore looking like this.

Jack


Hello Jack,

My favorite rifle is a 1977 Barry Darr built FBW Model J with a Darr 7-groove, 16 twist barrel chambered in .32-40.

This rifle passed through any number of owners before me and was in rough shape when I bought it.  The bore looks a lot like yours (maybe worse) but it still shoots great.

That's the thing about barrels - beauty is no guarantor of performance.

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Reply #35 - Dec 1st, 2021 at 1:24pm
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I have an 1884 Trapdoor with a severely pitted barrel that shoots well enough with  4-5" 200 yd BP groups.  I used it strictly for the offhand Military BP matched in Tacoma.  I showed the late Bill Crane the bore and he just chuckled saying it was not always the best barrels that made a good shooter.  Despite all the cleaning I have done I don't think I have ever had a perfectly clean patch come out of it.

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Reply #36 - Dec 1st, 2021 at 10:07pm
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JLouis wrote on Dec 1st, 2021 at 11:28am:
Looks good to me Jack I have seen allot worst that still shoot lights out. I have never looked down one of my own. I looked at a friends who just bought a Hawkeye Bore Scope and what he saw crawled into his head. Rifle wouldn't shoot after that and he was always the one at the top to have to beat. When it came time to look at mine I said no thank you I didn't even want to know what mine looked like after seeing his.


Sound advice! We can be our own worst enemies at times, regardless of whether or not it is a firearms, tool, vehicle, etc
  
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