Fire Lapping

[goodconcretecolor]

My Howa  1500 seems to foul quickly. The Tubb fire lapping kit seems relativly inexpensive and easy to use for a reloader. But I would be removing metal that can't be put back. Has any one else tried it?

[neald]

I tried it on an old Savage  I got from a friend who said it would not shoot and be able to keep it on the paper and was pleasantly supriesed after the fire lapping. I did it because it fouled very quickley. about 12-15 shots and then they started to spread out on the target. I was affraid to do it because of the same thing you said about the metal being gone. All the lapping did was polish it up (the bore).Oh by the way, I got my kit  from midway.
 good luck
neal

[nodlenor]

I didn't use the Tubbs but I fire lapped my 1500 270win and it must have polished the bore because it is much eaiser to clean now. I think it made a difference in the accuracy too but I really haven't fired it enough to say how much. If you follow the directions I don't think it will remove much metal other than enough to smooth it up a bit.

[threepdr]

A friend bought a 1903 Springfield from the CMP that had a sewer pipe bore.  It would fray cloth cleaing patches when he tried to clean it.  No accuracy and some bullets would key hole at 50 yards.  After going through the fire lapping procedures using all three grits, he could keep a 4-5 inch groups at 100yards and some shine returned to the bore.

Not a tack driver, but did turn it back into a plinker at least.