twoworms
02-27-2007, 09:47 PM
My question is do you think the Thompson Center Encore barrels in SS are soft?
The reason I ask is that my 500 S&W was shooting around 4" groups at 100 yards with my cast boolits. I cleaned the barrel real good and got most of the black crud out of the barrel. Next time at the range I could not keep it on a 8x10" sheet of paper at 100yards.
That night I checked the scope, rings, screws and so on. Then cleaned the barrel, after the cleaing I checked the crown and found that I had banged it up with my cleaning jag.
I'm thinking that I had pushed it out the end of the barrel and came back to hard and banged the jag into the crown. I have cleaned up the crown and plan to test fire with the same loads next time out.
Well, what do you think, soft or not?
Tim
The reason I ask is that my 500 S&W was shooting around 4" groups at 100 yards with my cast boolits. I cleaned the barrel real good and got most of the black crud out of the barrel. Next time at the range I could not keep it on a 8x10" sheet of paper at 100yards.
That night I checked the scope, rings, screws and so on. Then cleaned the barrel, after the cleaing I checked the crown and found that I had banged it up with my cleaning jag.
I'm thinking that I had pushed it out the end of the barrel and came back to hard and banged the jag into the crown. I have cleaned up the crown and plan to test fire with the same loads next time out.
Well, what do you think, soft or not?
Tim