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[Rooster 50]

Well after 2 yrs of convincing myself I needed one I finally bought one.

Unpacked the rifle and checked it out from stem to stern. Fit and finish was excellant. It is the Stainless synthetic in .243.

Decided to clean it, adjust the trigger, and mount the scope. It all went pretty well till I realized I was having a pretty hard time getting it clean. So after about 20 patches of BoreTech carbon remover and Copper cutter, I decided to get serious. I broke out the JB bore paste. Shortstroked the barrel down and back twice with a patch wrapped around a 22cal brass brush.

THEN I thought what the heck I better scope this puppy and see how bad the tooling marks are to be this hard to clean. Well the first 20 in of the barrel look pretty good with fairly faint chatter marks, then it got interesting.
4 in from the muzzle I find my first pitt. Then no more till the last 1/2 in of the barrel and it looks like pure crap, pitted pretty bad. I looked at the inspection card and it says it was test fired in March 08. So it has been sitting around in a wharehouse in N.C. for 9 months dirty and corroding.

Anybody else have any thing like this happen?

 

[Ginner]

Quality?

While waiting for my new rifle to be scoped & bore-sighted, the gunsmith kept being held up checking new Icons trying to find one that would chamber a round. Saw at least 3 fail then they jumped way up in serial numbers and got a good one. Apparently they failed to run the reamer in deep enough when cutting the chamber. Don't know how many it was but I know the three that failed were in sequential order and I know they were T/C Icons.
I know this doesn't answer your question but I found it odd that they are test fired when they would not chamber a round.
I have seen the ads for these rifles and like the design concepts but it seems the execution is somewhat lacking. It seems to me that it should take considerable effort to rust a brand new stainless barrel or the blank is of very low quality.

 

[Rooster 50]

Thanks Ginner. In this case it looks like the rifle had been fired numerous times, and then put away dirty as heck. You just don't get that kind of erosian at the muzzle in a couple of rounds.

Now here's the kicker. You talked about test firing. The target I got with the rifle was not a real target but a sheet of paper with a computer generated "virtual" group on it. HUH????????? Where's the real target.