by Hoot » Sun Aug 05, 2018 8:04 am
Like many people, I go through separation anxiety when one of my guns (babies) has to leave me temporarily, but if factory ammo is sooting, your chamber is cut too big and the barrel needs to be replaced. Unlike semi-autos, bolt action chambers don't have to be loosey goosey to assure cycling. Look at the rule versus the exception. If everyone's rifle has sooting to the same degree as yours with factory ammo, then its just par for the course. If not, something is different with your rifle. Now sooting never stopped me from shooting, as it does "come out in the wash", but that doesn't make it right. When rifles in this caliber were hard to come by, you just put up with it. That's not the case anymore. Send it in and play with one (or more) of your other calibers. Up here, November is rifle, deer hunting month. The only rifle, deer hunting month. If you really want to hunt with your 450b, don't wait too long to send it in.
Hoot
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