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Purchased a Green mountain barrel for my TC Hawken about two years ago. Just getting round to trying it out and have to say that I am a bit disappointed.
Now the 32 inch length is cool for sure. Looks rite. The replacement kit fit my rifle perfectly. TOW is a great resource for sure.
Took the 54 (my favorite cal.) Out couple weeks ago to smoke it up and see how good it would shoot. Having been shooting my flint smoothy, first thing that struck me was the tough loading after the first shot. This persisted using 80 grains Old E powder , .530 hornaday balls and .015 cotton patch lubed with my standby home brew lube.
Persistent hard loading was dismissed with the assumption that I been spoiled by the smoothy. Pretty good accuracy at 35 yards being around 2 inch groups ... imagined this as new barrel grinch's. Went out to 100 yds and missed the 11 by 16 inch target completely ... from a rest.
Took it home and gave it a thorough cleaning and oiled up. Bothered me tho, so yesterday took her back out to see what it would act like again. Trying several thickness patchs and 60 back up to 80 grains resulted in the same loading and accuracy.
Searching for patch's, I found a few and walla ... each one was tattered and torn about half the circumference.
ROUGH BARREL!
Cleaning it at home again with water n ballistol, resulted in a squeaky clean barrel. Taking my green bore lite and dropping it down the barrel to gaze at the insides, I found rough rifling more at the last 8 or so inch of the muzzle. FOUND IT!!!
KINDA DISAPPOINTED. I had thought that a green mountain barrel would be top notch. Not a patch tearing inaccurate barrel.
Guess some home lapping will be required with some TLC. Not sending it anywhere tho. After smoothing it up ... will take it back out for nother try.
Anybody else experience this?
Now the 32 inch length is cool for sure. Looks rite. The replacement kit fit my rifle perfectly. TOW is a great resource for sure.
Took the 54 (my favorite cal.) Out couple weeks ago to smoke it up and see how good it would shoot. Having been shooting my flint smoothy, first thing that struck me was the tough loading after the first shot. This persisted using 80 grains Old E powder , .530 hornaday balls and .015 cotton patch lubed with my standby home brew lube.
Persistent hard loading was dismissed with the assumption that I been spoiled by the smoothy. Pretty good accuracy at 35 yards being around 2 inch groups ... imagined this as new barrel grinch's. Went out to 100 yds and missed the 11 by 16 inch target completely ... from a rest.
Took it home and gave it a thorough cleaning and oiled up. Bothered me tho, so yesterday took her back out to see what it would act like again. Trying several thickness patchs and 60 back up to 80 grains resulted in the same loading and accuracy.
Searching for patch's, I found a few and walla ... each one was tattered and torn about half the circumference.
ROUGH BARREL!
Cleaning it at home again with water n ballistol, resulted in a squeaky clean barrel. Taking my green bore lite and dropping it down the barrel to gaze at the insides, I found rough rifling more at the last 8 or so inch of the muzzle. FOUND IT!!!
KINDA DISAPPOINTED. I had thought that a green mountain barrel would be top notch. Not a patch tearing inaccurate barrel.
Guess some home lapping will be required with some TLC. Not sending it anywhere tho. After smoothing it up ... will take it back out for nother try.
Anybody else experience this?