Thread: Is it reasonable to expect....

Hey All,

I've just bought a new rifle today and when I got it home to "ahhhh" over it, I took a light to the muzzle and saw chatter marks from the tooling. I'm planning on taking it back to the shop tomorrow and asking them to order another one in. Surely this is a reasonable request that they should follow or not?

Cheers,
G

What brand ? Model ?

Just speed bumps? I'd take it back and ask the question

Kj - are they normally quite noticeable? I'm sure it will shoot fine, it's just the copper fouling that will annoy me

A lot of hamer forged barrels have these marks, but they still seam to shoot okay.

Kj

winchester m70 extreme weather. Bar the chatter marks she's a pretty sweet rifle but from past experiences - chatter marks are not good! There was also copper fouling which made me I would have thought even if they had fired a test round or two at the factory they would clean it? Not sure winchester does a test fire or not?

Cheers

Originally Posted by Grunta

winchester m70 extreme weather. Bar the chatter marks she's a pretty sweet rifle but from past experiences - chatter marks are not good! There was also copper fouling which made me I would have thought even if they had fired a test round or two at the factory they would clean it? Not sure winchester does a test fire or not?

Cheers

My ultimate shadow was the same re copper fouling.but didnt really think much of it.and at the end of the day didnt effect my barrel.I might pull the other three of the wall and have a closer look at them on saturday.

Not uncommon with these AFAIK

Try this for size Winny Extreme Weather chatter marks
Hope its not the same shooter

Hey kiwijames,

Yeah I saw that. Not quite as bad as that, but still noticable to the naked eye easy enough. I just hope I don't have a battle like he did. I'll find out tomorrow though when I take it back in. First time I've ever seen a brand new rifle with copper fouling evident though

Well you did buy American Made I gave up on buying U.S. made rifles years ago due to this kind of thing

I received the replacement rifle yesterday and it has no chatter marks which is great, but the copper still is there so I'm assuming they don't clean them once they've been fired from the factory. Look foward to putting some rounds through it and seeing how it shoots.

Neckshot - be interested to hear back and see what your findings are. How does your ultimate shadow shoot?

Originally Posted by Grunta

I received the replacement rifle yesterday and it has no chatter marks which is great, but the copper still is there so I'm assuming they don't clean them once they've been fired from the factory. Look foward to putting some rounds through it and seeing how it shoots.

Neckshot - be interested to hear back and see what your findings are. How does your ultimate shadow shoot?

With the barrel that came with it it shot well mate, i went through the rebuilding process as i wanted a different call how ever i was adamant that i wanted the action to saty and im happy i did mate i beleive the action on the winchesters to be of a high quality. ask the gunsmiths what they think

Originally Posted by Neckshot

With the barrel that came with it it shot well mate, i went through the rebuilding process as i wanted a different call how ever i was adamant that i wanted the action to saty and im happy i did mate i beleive the action on the winchesters to be of a high quality. ask the gunsmiths what they think

what cal was your barrel grunta?

.270 - It's my fourth one now. Was going to go 7mm rem mag, but I just seem to love the .270. Never lost an animal to it and I know the caliber pretty well now.

Thats good news yours shot well with the factory barrel. Out of interest - did the right hand side bolt lug gouge a mark down the right hand side of the action? This one has and at first I though it was the extractor claw, then the "fin" below it, but have now come to the conclusion it's the bottom of the bolt lug. The smoothness seems lacking a wee bit - could be because it's new, but it feels "off" Maybe I'm just use to brownings. The rifle itself including the action seems well made and solid - there's no plastic on it at all which is great and the factory bedding is one of the better I've seen. Fark, maybe I'm just a fussy prick?....