Cabin fever

Winelover

North Central Arkansas
I have little desire to leave home most of the time.

Rick's been ribbing me about that for years. But, I always seem to get the last laugh in. Nothing's changed for me...........except for the fact that Cindy's been home, a lot more lately.
 

Ian

Notorious member
Mostly a 24" Mossberg MVP 5.56, some kind of tacticool laminated stock jobbie that is a consistently yucky shooter no matter the ammo used. Quite disgusted with it, actually. The best group it EVER shot was with lead-free cast bullets and that was about an inch. Anyway, I lapped and re-crowned it a while back so I cast these to have another go. This is typical of what it does, day in, day out, no better, rarely ever worse.

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From a machine rest. The 24.0 H335 load chronographed at 2908 fps average.
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Ian

Notorious member
I may have found one of the evil spirits

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We'll see if trimming the muzzle back to get rid if this nasty crown pitting helped. The lapping loads fired afterward grouped pretty well, but I was out of cast bullets to try so had to make more.
 

358156 hp

At large, whereabouts unknown.
If all else fails, you could backbore it from the muzzle a bit if it becomes necessary. It might be less hassle for the flash hider, but the setup could be a pain.
 

GSPguy

Member
That can work very well. A friend once had a M1A that didn't shoot quite right. Upon close inspection of the muzzle you could see a small dip about an inch and a half from the end of the barrel. A little work with a reemer fixed the problem. The best part was when the flash hired was back on it was very hard to tell that the rifling was a little short.
 

Ian

Notorious member
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This took care of it. I can cut the whole end off and rethread it if need be but I think this is sufficient.
 

fiver

Well-Known Member
if you do that 20 years from now someone will mistake it for an Asperly barrel and that whole thing will get started again.
 

RicinYakima

High Steppes of Eastern Washington
You will not be sorry, Ian.

22 Savage Hi-Power cartridge specifications, the first modern 22 CF rifle.
 

JonB

Halcyon member
Next step is make a 23-7/8" tomato stake and buy a Green Mountain .30-caliber profiled blank along with a 300 BLK reamer.
while I am the type to just send it down the road (because someone else will like it and may think that accuracy was just fine), I can truly appreciate your skills to make it into something better.
 

fiver

Well-Known Member
yep a 224 drill down the pipe and a 228 button behind it.
start from fresh steel.
then make the mold match the groove diameter.
or as Ian said just spend the 2-300$ and get some new metal to work with.
 

Ian

Notorious member
I'd firelap it with cast to make .228" but the throat already goes halfway to the muzzle. I may have fixed it, we'll see. I really wanted a .223 bolt action that would shoot cast or jacketed well, so I'm not giving up yet.....but am really close. One more try.
 

Spindrift

Well-Known Member
The good old .22 Savage hi-power is actually quite popular in Europe. It is called 5,6x52R, and due to it’s rim is highly suitable for break-actions.
I hope the Mossberg will work out for you, Ian. I feel your pain!