Author Topic: Question on a 45/70 Gov't barrel (Read 928 times)

rms4570hr · « **on:** June 17, 2006, 08:19:47 PM »

I sent my utra hunter back to H&R to have a 45/70 Gov't barrel fitted.I got it back today and started cleaning the barrel and on the rifleing lands there are lines cut into them from the breach to the crown is this normal?

rms270hr

stimpylu32 · « **Reply #1 on:** June 18, 2006, 05:01:23 AM »

rms270hr

I just checked my 45/70 barrel and did not see the lines you spoke of , so maybe you need to call H&R cost. serv. and ask them , whats up with this ? :eek:

rms4570hr · « **Reply #2 on:** June 18, 2006, 05:41:09 AM »

I hear ya it looks like somebody took a bulldozer and ran down the rifleling lands and left track marks on them but their straight in line with the bore like they run a different tool through it after they cut the bore then again it could be chatter marks from the boring tool.I wonder how many other folks got back barrels like this

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mt3030 · « **Reply #3 on:** June 18, 2006, 05:44:24 AM »

Anything is possible. We once had a forum member who received a rifle barrel from the accessory program which had no or incomplete rifling! But NEF made it right.

rms4570hr · « **Reply #4 on:** June 18, 2006, 06:02:59 AM »

Yeah i think i will call customer service tommoro and see what i can do to get it fixed.

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rms4570hr · « **Reply #5 on:** June 18, 2006, 10:29:00 AM »

Ok here's a pic showing the rifleling lands in question in my 45/70 Gov't barrel i just got back from fitting. It's like this from the breach to the crown. Should i contact H&R customer service with this? Or is this normal on the 45/70 barrels :eek:

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stimpylu32 · « **Reply #6 on:** June 18, 2006, 11:46:48 AM »

From what i am seeing in the photo it looks like standard micro-grove rifling to me but i may be wrong .

rms4570hr · « **Reply #7 on:** June 18, 2006, 01:08:01 PM »

yeah but did ya zoom in to 200% and look i mean i might be wrong here but i have never seen this kind of rifle lands before seems like they would foul big time. :eek:

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Ricci Price · « **Reply #8 on:** June 20, 2006, 06:11:23 PM »

Those are the radial drill marks left from the boring process send it back or at least call them. I bought a replacement .458 barrel (adams&bennet) and it has got radial drill marks in it too. I made a smokeless muzzleloader barrel out of it and it don't foul that bad, and it shoots very nice.

rms4570hr · « **Reply #9 on:** June 21, 2006, 12:39:27 AM »

Yeah i talked to mr. Gorden one of the H&R plant managers monday on the phone after i sent them an e-mail with the same pic above he looked at my pic and told me he went out on the factory floor and looked at the rest of the 45/70 barrels he said they had slight tooling marks left from the rifling proccess he said mine had a little more than the others and told me to go ahead and shoot it and see how it does and if i had a problem with it ship it back and he would take care of it.But didn't think it would hurt the performance of the barrel.Now that's pretty good customer sevice in my book's :grin:

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