Brother isn't that the truth.
Such is the story of my tang safety ruger 7-08. I bought it for $325 with a steel weaver 6X scope. When I looked it over at the gun shop it was patently obvious the previous owner didn't know what copper solvent was. The upside to such copper coated barrels is the firm belief that they haven't had their bores destroyed by overly ambitious idots with sub-standard steel cleaning rods.
A week of soaking with barnes copper solvent and a modicum of elbow grease gave me a rifle capable of inch and a sixteenth groups at 200 yards.