I bought a savage axis .243 last year, and after shooting it I noticed copper fouling at the end of the barrel like I've never seen it before in my other guns. After cleaning it and further inspection I noticed tooling marks or tooling chatter that was running down the barrel. I decided to try and lead lap it to see if I could knock the high spots off. I think this helped and I did feel some high spots in the barrel, which I tried to smooth out. afterwards I could still see the tooling marks at the end of the barrel.
I decided to take it out and see how it shot. I felt I had better grouping after I lapped the barrel, but at the end of my session I could see the copper building up again at the end of the barrel. How do I get the barrel to smooth out more without overdoing it? Should I lap it more? Call savage? I've been a little disappointed in the gun.