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Offline rockbilly

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« on: January 25, 2005, 05:06:56 PM »
I recently picked up a beautiful Swed that had been sportrized by Kimber at a gun show.  The gun appeared to be in excellent shape, but I had a local Smith check her out too before going to the range.  He gave it his stamp of approval too.  I took her to the range, set a target up and busted a few rounds.  The first 3 rounds produced a group at about 70 yards that could be covered with a quarter.  Then she started throwing them all over the target.  I switched from S&B to Remington (both factory) ammo.  I let the barrel cool, and she grouped tight again, but after three rounds, all over the target.  I fired a couple of rounds and was in the process of laying the gun down when I noticed a weird looking place on the barrel.  It appeared the barrel was bent up, not a budge, but a very clear distortion in the barrel.  It appears to be where the front hump was located before Kimber turned the barrel.

Has anyone else had this type of problem?  I have turned (tapered) many Sweds and never had one of mine do that.  No doubt, the barrel will have to be replaced (or take it back to the next gun show aand trade it).  I'm thinking of replacing it with an Allen and Bennet 6.5 barrell.
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Offline bgjohn

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« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2005, 03:41:41 AM »
They cut too deep?
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« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2005, 06:24:45 AM »
I'd bet the bore wandered and turning removed too much metal over it or th rifle was fired with oil or some other obstruction in the bore.
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« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2005, 07:13:57 PM »
I've got the same problem with my kimber worked swed. I'm taking it to my gunsmith and checked out.
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« Reply #4 on: February 15, 2005, 02:56:23 AM »
rockbilly - when I had my M38 customized by a local smith I asked him about turning the military 'steps' (cooling steps, actually) out of the barrel so I would have a sporter style barrel and not be left with a military barrel (so to speak) in or on a nice custom job.  He said - Nope!  He said that if he did that the barrel would be too thin in some spots and I would lose my accuracy after the first couple of shots.  Seems he did that with another Swede and those were the results.  He said the best way to get a smooth 'unstepped' sporter barrel look was to remove the old barrel and install a new sporter barrel in that caliber.  HTH.  Mikey.
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