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Ryan Nafe

Fellas,

I’ve been doing a bit of observation of the bore of that 2008 vintage Remington 700 of mine, and I’ve noticed two things that seem contradictory:

- I can clearly see gun drill wormskin marks in the bore, but it also doesn’t appear to be a particularly heavy or fast fouling bore.

What’s the deal?

Now to be clear, I’ve muddied the waters a bit by using a mild copper solvent (Hoppe’s #9) after each of the three total boxes of 20 rounds that I’ve fired. But his was done with not much more than a half hour of soaking in the bore. After a half hour or so I scrub over the Hoppe’s with a bronze brush a dozen times or so, and then clean it all out and re-oil it for storage.

I’ve never gone so far as to use Bore Tech Eliminator to fully remove all the copper, and I’ve fired entire boxes of ammo through the rifle in between fairly minimalist cleanings. And yet, it just doesn’t seem to foul to a serious degree.

I guess the only thing that really matters is that the rifle as a whole unit appears to be giving me 1 to 1.5 MOA and isn’t doing anything odd as far as random fliers or double groupings, so it’s not some kind of emergency or big problem, I just thought it was kinda contradictory and strange to have a visually disfigured/rough bore that doesn’t seem to foul heavily.