The bore gets sealed on the breach end (in this case) a piece of duct tape would cover the port, special liquid is poured in the barrel and then a rod is put in the bore. "O" rings center the rod and you connect a wire to the Barrel and to the rod, reverse electro plating the begins. Barrel is clean with no scrubbing. Beer is allowed in this process!!!
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An accident filled day at the meth lab maybe?
The good news is that the barrel is not damaged. The bad news is that is was very leaded. Keep working at it and you will be able to remove it.
Interesting that there is no rifling in the area of the port. That is likely why there is such a huge amount of lead accumulating in that area. Once you get it clean, I'd say this barrel is suitable only for copper plated or jacketed ammo.
For the life in me I can not figure out why you don't ask for a return label from S&W and send it in or why it wasn't returned to the seller. Send it in both for the recall and for the barrel.
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That's really interesting how the fouling appeared to have rifling in the original pictures. My guess is the previous owner shot a lot of lead bullets and the gases flowed around the bullet after it passed the band. The gases would have contained a lot of lead that would condense on the barrel. And the bullets would act like a swage that formed the fouling so it looked like the rifled portion of the barrel.
It looks more like lead than copper to me. And I would not worry about the "bluing" on the inside of the barrel. Barrels look dark from carbon fouling, not bluing.
As long as you reduce the fouling to the point it does not touch the bullet past the band where the rifling stops it should have little to no effect on accuracy. But it would still bother me if it was my gun. Hope you find a way to get it out without damaging the barrel in the process.
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I think these were specially designed for the milsurp rifle rush in the early 2000s. Poke around the web enough and you can find how to build one using a left over 9V battery eliminator.
Some of the bores I received were so coppered up I probably should have had a mining license to clean them. I used Outers Foaming Bore Cleaner to get them presentable. I think the record for number of soakings before the patches showed no copper was 17, held jointly by a 1943 Mosin and a 1942 Enfield No4 with two-groove rifling.
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Very interesting comment,....The seller refuses to take the return or compensate me for the issue....because of "As Is" in the item description. seller is Keystone on GB by the way, Beware! (PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT). As for SW,... its got a road trip to MA in its future.
I sent a Sig P320 in for the Voluntary recall,...fairly painless.
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Seems to be wach,.... Ive never had so much trouble removing anything in my life... It became part of the DNA of the barrel.
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Keep on with the Hoppes, the copper pad an elbow grease. Looking good!
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I stopped marking the beer count once my fingers got too sore to write!...Hoof.... good news is, I'm in the home stretch run...
The photo tends to exaggerate it a bit, but there is a shelf or step where the rifling stops and the band for the port starts/,... I gotta say, it IS surprising, the frikin' barrel looks brand new under that gunk, like it was protecting it.
The photo tends to exaggerate it a bit, but there is a shelf or step where the rifling stops and the band for the port starts/,... I gotta say, it IS surprising, the frikin' barrel looks brand new under that gunk, like it was protecting it.
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