Bore on my T-C PA Hunter... ICKY!

[Winter Hawk]

Found my little drop-in bore light the other day and dropped it down the barrel of my Pennsylvania Hunter after I had cleaned it.  When I peered down the muzzle I was flabberghasted - the grooves looked like railroad tracks!  I guess that is the "chatter" I read about on some bores.  It was clean and shiny, just looked extremely rough.  I don't have one of those bore scope thingies so couldn't take a picture but it sure was ugly! 

I also dropped it down the bore of the Hodge-Podge rifle with the Colerain barrel and that looked a whole lot better.  Not sure what to do at this point.  I may pour a lead plug in it and try to smooth it out with valve grinding compound or such, but I don't have much hope for it.  Maybe send it off and get it bored out to .54?  She's a pretty enough rifle, just not as accurate as I would like.

For what it's worth, this is the second PA Hunter I have owned.  The first one I bought from Ol' Shiney in Oregon back in 1991, and it was a great rifle.  I could get 4" groups out at 100 yards, spot on, with both PRB and R.E.A.L. bullets.  Then I foolishly traded it off....  (we need a crying "smiley" here.)  So I had the chance to get this one and it's been a problem child since.  It is a 5000 range serial number (where my first one was in the 12,000 range) and the lock was terrible.  It now has a L&R lock (much better) but the fit and finish isn't nearly as good as my first one (sniff, wipe the tear away).

Enough rambling, I'm going to bed.  It's been a bad evening when I found a charge on my Visa bill for something neither my Sweetie nor I had bought.  The account has been closed and a new credit card is on its way, but it stinks to be ripped off that way.  We aren't being charged for the item but still!

~WH~

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Found my little drop-in bore light the other day and dropped it down the barrel of my Pennsylvania Hunter after I had cleaned it.  When I peered down the muzzle I was flabberghasted - the grooves looked like railroad tracks!  I guess that is the "chatter" I read about on some bores.  It was clean and shiny, just looked extremely rough.  I don't have one of those bore scope thingies so couldn't take a picture but it sure was ugly! 

I also dropped it down the bore of the Hodge-Podge rifle with the Colerain barrel and that looked a whole lot better.  Not sure what to do at this point.  I may pour a lead plug in it and try to smooth it out with valve grinding compound or such, but I don't have much hope for it.  Maybe send it off and get it bored out to .54?  She's a pretty enough rifle, just not as accurate as I would like.

For what it's worth, this is the second PA Hunter I have owned.  The first one I bought from Ol' Shiney in Oregon back in 1991, and it was a great rifle.  I could get 4" groups out at 100 yards, spot on, with both PRB and R.E.A.L. bullets.  Then I foolishly traded it off....  (we need a crying "smiley" here.)  So I had the chance to get this one and it's been a problem child since.  It is a 5000 range serial number (where my first one was in the 12,000 range) and the lock was terrible.  It now has a L&R lock (much better) but the fit and finish isn't nearly as good as my first one (sniff, wipe the tear away).

Enough rambling, I'm going to bed.  It's been a bad evening when I found a charge on my Visa bill for something neither my Sweetie nor I had bought.  The account has been closed and a new credit card is on its way, but it stinks to be ripped off that way.  We aren't being charged for the item but still!

~WH~

We had the same thing happen to us about 2 months ago when my wife bought some stuff online from Walmart.

[Winter Hawk]

Well, the T-C barrel is off to Bobby Hoyt.  It may take a while before it's back as he will work it in between other jobs, but the price was most reasonable.  I asked him to freshen it if in his estimation that will cure the problem, or otherwise to bore it out to .54.  We'll see what he ends up doing.

~WH~