Thread: Who's seen a rimfire do this before

Originally Posted by dannyb

what about putting a patch down it and feeling for loose sections ? might at least give you an idea of if and where the barrel may be bulged ?
if it's near enough to the muzzle chopping and re crowning could be an option ?

That's fine in a medium or big bore
But a .17 is so small you wouldn't feel the tiny variation that's all it takes to upset them

Give it a good clean first , being such a small calibre , small things can have much bigger consequences. Being secondhand you do not know what has been done to it?.

They are caught up in the SS109 rumour

I have seen an old 303 do that before and it was f----d

There is a ready market for a rifle with this type of accuracy at shooting gallery sideshows

You are all looking at the problem wrong. There is nothing wrong with the gun, the problem is the target paper - you have it facing the wrong way!

Rotate the paper 90deg on its vertical axis so that the bullets can enter the paper point on in stead of sideways. Problem solved.

Looks very much like clipping - suppressor strike. Was GW using one?

Have seen barrels with intermittent rifling i.e. slug the barrel by pushing say the 22LR projectile down it and feeling the tight and loose sections of rifling. But have never seen anything that would cause rounds to perform like that straight out of barrel at 12 meters. Wooo! Might be why it was a secondhand rifle

Originally Posted by mudgripz

Looks very much like clipping - suppressor strike. Was GW using one?

Have seen barrels with intermittent rifling i.e. slug the barrel by pushing say the 22LR projectile down it and feeling the tight and loose sections of rifling. But have never seen anything that would cause rounds to perform like that straight out of barrel at 12 meters. Wooo! Might be why it was a secondhand rifle

Pffft - first ive heard of a 2nd hand rifle shooting like that.....according to trademe they ALL shoot 1/2 moa out to 1000yds as long as the seller does thier part

If you try to put a positive spin on it then it could be a bad case of borer in the wood which is coming through the paper and you are completely missing the target in which case the riffle is all good.

Originally Posted by akaroa1

That's fine in a medium or big bore
But a .17 is so small you wouldn't feel the tiny variation that's all it takes to upset them

What if you pulled a bullet and pushed it through in front of a rod. Would you feel anything then?

you would feel like a dick if it got stuck!!!!!!!

Probably the Coriolis effect

Originally Posted by RUMPY

What if you pulled a bullet and pushed it through in front of a rod. Would you feel anything then?

You can do it with a .177 air rifle pellet, don't think I'd risk it with a jacketed bullet.

I'd give it a good clean with foaming bore cleaner and really inspect it. If it's not bulged and you can usually feel it with a brush then I'm picking flared or damaged muzzle, stuffed headspace which is sticking the pill in sideways and it's coming out rooted, or some version of bulges at the critical point just behind the muzzle. If it's none of that then you might need to be looking at casting up .175 bullets.

Can you recover a pill? Wet phone books... That will tell you a lot about the engraving of the rifling, and if there ain't any...

An update on this.

I've had enough to do with rifles to come to the conclusion very quickly that I believe that there's nothing that will make this any better.

I emailed the seller last night and advised him of the issue. Told him its not in any way fit for purpose and it needs to be returned to him for a full refund.

He has replied this morning, and is being really good about it and has actually made a full refund already, and is arranging to have it sent back.

Cannot ask for any more. Sounds like he has traded it on another rifle and he's been tucked.