Rough rifle barrel

[baboonstalker]

I have seen the targetmaster video and it looks much more precise than my chargemaster combo or any of the off the shelf tricler setups.

Your invention also?

P

[allan10661]

Yes - I'm the Targetmaster - Only this morning I sent one off to Johannesburg. If you want more info you can contact me through the Targetmaster website

[baboonstalker]

Thank you for sharing Alan, I am deffinately going to try it! Did you find a particularly thin mirror?

P

PS interesting scale setup you have there!

[allan10661]

I first used a piece of mirror from a ladies make-up set which was about 1.5mm thick but I have since found some thin plastic that is mirror coated and also mirror coated card.

I'm a bit of a nerd when it come to weighing my powder, I have about 20 set of scales - Have you seen the Targetmaster trickler video?

[baboonstalker]

Hi Allan,

I am very interested to know how you went about creating your borescope.

Would you mind sharing?

Thanks

Pieter

[allan10661]

I'm a targetshooter in the UK and recently bought a new rifle for long range shooting. The rifle shot fairly well but I could feel the barrel was rough and a devil of a job to clean so I thought I would try and make a bore scope without spending a wad of money.

I started with a cheap bore viewer from Cabela in the USA , this has no light souce or right-angle viewer. I found a bit of brass tube (portable radio ariel) that fitted inside the Cabela tube and filed a hole in the top. Continued.....

[7093170]

Very nice vid, Thanks. Could you please tell something about your DIY Borescope? I'm looking into a homemade borescope or a cheap fiberscope (e.g. provision pv-618) and i'm very impressed bij the image quality of your video. Thanks in advance.

[allan10661]

continued......Then found a piece of wooden rod (paint brush handle) that fitted into that tube then cut it off at 45 degrees. Then I stuck a piece of mirror on the angled rod and ground it down with a dremmel type tool until it fitted in the brass tube.

The light is a 2mm led soldered on long wires fed in from the breech end.

Then I got a cheap webcam, £8.00 and took the lens right off then stuck the cam body on the eye-piece of the viewer with hot glue.

Not perfect but it did the job.

[allan10661]

I agree, it's not a pretty sight ,but the manufacturer went out of their way to sort the problem and I am fully satisfied with the result. I'm sure that one slips through the net now and again with any massed produced item and I'm sure that a good few barrells look like this, its just that you can't see them.

[morearrows]

For goodness sake, never seen anything so awfull! Surely the least you could have done was tell us all who thought so little of themselves and their costomers that they made this! And worse still, who sold it to you? Where in china was it made?

[col4570]

lu21fer.cast a lead plug around a rod placed in the barrel, apply grinding paste and lapp out barrel with a to and fro motion.Score the rod to ensure the lead does,nt turn on the rod.

[lu21fer]

I have a similar tool pattern on my rifle barrel and it fouls like hell , first 5 go right in group but after that its like a shotgun except you have to do more work to get plenty of holes, and its an LW barrel.

I would be more than interested if you possibly have a barrel made by the same manufacturer.

[col4570]

lu2fer,Use a length of steel rod smaller than the bore.Score and cut a rough section on the end.Put the rod in the barrel from the breach end with wrapped string bellow scoring.Heat barrel and rod until spit sizzles.

[ammosmith]

Wow! I don't think pressure lapping would fix it. It looks like they rough cut it and never polished it. What make of barrel is it?