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STBE Harris
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I have a new r-55 that I don’t think is shooting right, although the factory does as I sent it back to them with an accuracy complaint and they sent it back in record time and said it met their specs. Not good at all as far as I am concerned. It is shooting .75+ groups at 25 and 33 yds. This is after over 1600 rounds of mid priced Euro STD Vel match ammo of various brands, American STD VEL CCI and Green tag and HI Vel like CCI Mini’s, F510 and WW Western Super X. It really shotguns the Hi Vel stuff, about .9 average. I keep detailed spreadsheet records and I can find no trend after things that I have done to it and getting it back from the factory. I shoot mostly indoors off solid benches and use BR rests and have shot in CF BR competition occasionally and for accuracy for as long as I can remember. I shoot with a group of shooters and we have access to quite a few 22’s bolt rifles and a few autos. This r-55 doesn’t shoot with 99 percent of the 22’s we shoot except a Browning 22 auto that never can be tightened up in fact its generally worse than a couple of M60 Pawn shop beater rifles we saved, only the previous owners know how these were treated in the past. So dont blame my technique or tenacity!!!
What I have done: shot around 500 rounds letting it settle in cleaning at about every 50 rounds lightly with a nylon brush and Hoppes. Cleaned the dickens out of it at 500 with a bronze brush using Hoppes and Kroil mix and shot 100 rounds to test for accuracy and then sent it back to the factory.
Received it back and shot 150 rounds of Euro Match brands determined that nothing happened.
Completely floated the barrel (I had already had to do a little as the forearm was bearing very heavily on the barrel at one side and tested no change except POI
Changed out the Scope which was a brand new APV Mueller 14X no change.
Point bedded the action and barrel for about ¾ inch forward of the receiver this aint easy as there aint much surface to bed the r-55 action to! Tested nothing changed except POI
Cut a small rubber pad and placed under the forearm tested with various amounts of torque on the screws no change except a vertical dispersion tendency to the shotgun pattern and POI.
Took it to a trusted Smith we looked at the barrel with a bore scope and it looked like it was galvanized inside in micro. Like scale had gotten on the mandrel as the hammer forge pounded around it. I and the Smith had not seen hammer forged barrels in a bore scope since he had just got it up and running after a long hiatus. So we didn’t know if that’s is the way they are supposed to look or even if TC makes their barrels by hammer forging but he said that it didn’t look like any of the button and cut rifle barrels he’d ever seen. He said the chamber looked “good” the crown looked a little ragged and you can see under magnification some of that scaley pattern under the bluing at the muzzle if you looked in the light right.
I made a muzzle protector and ran Flitz down the bore for about 30 trips. It slicked up a little we looked at it with the bore scope again and it looked like shiny galvanized metal!!!!!!!
He offered to recrown the muzzle and set it up in the lathe and took off a little at the muzzle
Result several hundred rounds later is it is not any better at all!!
Whats next?
Plant the dang thing in the garden?? Thanks for your input STBE
What I have done: shot around 500 rounds letting it settle in cleaning at about every 50 rounds lightly with a nylon brush and Hoppes. Cleaned the dickens out of it at 500 with a bronze brush using Hoppes and Kroil mix and shot 100 rounds to test for accuracy and then sent it back to the factory.
Received it back and shot 150 rounds of Euro Match brands determined that nothing happened.
Completely floated the barrel (I had already had to do a little as the forearm was bearing very heavily on the barrel at one side and tested no change except POI
Changed out the Scope which was a brand new APV Mueller 14X no change.
Point bedded the action and barrel for about ¾ inch forward of the receiver this aint easy as there aint much surface to bed the r-55 action to! Tested nothing changed except POI
Cut a small rubber pad and placed under the forearm tested with various amounts of torque on the screws no change except a vertical dispersion tendency to the shotgun pattern and POI.
Took it to a trusted Smith we looked at the barrel with a bore scope and it looked like it was galvanized inside in micro. Like scale had gotten on the mandrel as the hammer forge pounded around it. I and the Smith had not seen hammer forged barrels in a bore scope since he had just got it up and running after a long hiatus. So we didn’t know if that’s is the way they are supposed to look or even if TC makes their barrels by hammer forging but he said that it didn’t look like any of the button and cut rifle barrels he’d ever seen. He said the chamber looked “good” the crown looked a little ragged and you can see under magnification some of that scaley pattern under the bluing at the muzzle if you looked in the light right.
I made a muzzle protector and ran Flitz down the bore for about 30 trips. It slicked up a little we looked at it with the bore scope again and it looked like shiny galvanized metal!!!!!!!
He offered to recrown the muzzle and set it up in the lathe and took off a little at the muzzle
Result several hundred rounds later is it is not any better at all!!
Whats next?
Plant the dang thing in the garden?? Thanks for your input STBE