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Old 10-14-2008 | 05:44 AM
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nksmfamjp
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Default RE: How long can you expect guns to last?

What is wore out? Really. Barrels wear out by increasing groups size. Well, if your gun shoots 1" groups now on average and you consider 1.25" groups too big, I think you might wear it out in 1000 rounds. If wore out is 2" groups, you will get like 10000 rounds out of the barrel. Then to fix it, spend $300ish with your smith to lop off .5" from both ends, rechamber and recrown and you are good to go for another 10000 rounds. In reality most people buy a better barrel at this point and are out the door for $600. It takes forever to really wear out the rifling. Besides a new barrel fixes that.

Action? Well the trigger is probably the weakest link IMO. You may only get 10000 rounds of safe service life from a trigger. Buy a new one for like $100 and you are good to go. The actual bolt action will last for almost forever. It sees no wear really. Maybe 100000 in a sandy enviroment??

Point is your wallet will be wore out before you wear your gun out. Keep shooting as much as you can afford too. Probably your scope will break first.
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