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First on fire lapping. I have done this with a few barrels now and have come to the concluesion that in all cases it will make the barrel easer to clean. In some, but not many it will improve accuracy. The greatest accuracy improvement have found were in a .257 AI that I had built and could get no groups at all untill fire lapped, and from a .17 Rem. barrel that became fouled with Molly and I could not get cleaned any other way. Would I recomand fire lapping?? Only if you have tried everything else you can think of to get the barrel to shoot, it does put alot of extra wear on the barrel and shorten it life. New barrels that foul badly will get better the more they are fired and I don`t think it`s worth the extra wear to fire lap for easier cleaning.
As for barrels on new gun today I have limited experance, but in the recent past I had 2 new T/C barrels in .204 and neather would shot worth a crap and both foulled badly. I bought the first barrel and sent it back to T/C and they sent me a second barrel and said the first was out of specs. The second barrel was just like the first. I traded it on a CZ 527 in .204. Excellant shooter and barrel just don`t seem like it ever needs to be cleaned, love it. I also have a .17 Rem. that was rebarreled by Rem. on a recall. I wish I had kept the old barrel, it throught was showing quite abit of wear, but it still shot fairly good groups. The new barrel will not group anything I`ve tried so far, and I`ve tried several different powders and bullets. Like Cal, Rem. will have a hard time getting me to buy another of their new guns.
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Catfish
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