pitting

[flitz]

how will a very small amount of pitting affect the accuracey
of a rifle ? it is mainly down by the breech

[mangulator]

I believe you will be ok on accuracy if it's a small amount of pitting near the breach area. If the rifling is mesed up it would be a problem but I have seen center fire rifles shoot ok with pitting in the barrel.

[flitz]

would a couple hundred strokes of jb polish help

[Keith Lewis]

I just passed up a T/C Hawken for $100 that had major pitting in the bore. I was lucky to have a bore light to drop down the bore. The pitting was real bad at mid barrel which is the first time I have seen that. It looked too bad to salvage. I did shoot another rifle that had pitting pretty bad the whole barrel but not to the extent that the rifling was not pretty sharp. It shot just fine even though there was noticable pitting the whole barrel. I ran about 200 passes with JB bore paste and then shot it with good results. I passed on that one after I pulled the nipple and found the nipple hole rusted pretty bad. I was concerned that the nipple might blow out. I guess I could have tapped it to a larger nipple size but that seemed a little bit too much to do based on what the guy wanted for the rifle.

[Redhawk1]

I have seen rifles shoot just fine with pitting. The only way to find out is to shoot it.

[rickyp]

If the pitting is mostly at the breach like the first 2 to 3" from the breach plug you should be ok. the powder and bullet should fill up this point.

[Wolfhound]

I just passed up a T/C Hawken for $100 that had major pitting in the bore. I was lucky to have a bore light to drop down the bore. The pitting was real bad at mid barrel which is the first time I have seen that. It looked too bad to salvage. I did shoot another rifle that had pitting pretty bad the whole barrel but not to the extent that the rifling was not pretty sharp. It shot just fine even though there was noticable pitting the whole barrel. I ran about 200 passes with JB bore paste and then shot it with good results. I passed on that one after I pulled the nipple and found the nipple hole rusted pretty bad. I was concerned that the nipple might blow out. I guess I could have tapped it to a larger nipple size but that seemed a little bit too much to do based on what the guy wanted for the rifle.

If the lock and trigger was ok you could have gotten another barrel. It would add a little more cost but would be worth it if you could talk him down a little. TOTW has them for 180 or so. I've got a Hawken I keep meaning to buy a little .32 or .40 barrel for. Gonna be a nice squirrel gun when I get it set up. Of course that is what I got it for so I can understand why someone would pass on buying a gun they have to rebarrel.