I was all excited to give the Pro Hunter it's first cleaning. After finishing, I can honestly say the bore is the worst I've seen, including worse than a lot of well used bores.
i've polished 6-8 new TC barrels. Some of those TC bores are very rough. Tool marks from the reamer are not unusual. Some have gouges in the rifling. It looks like TC does not do a good job of polishing the bores before rifling.
First i get a tight fitting patch and melt a red jeweler's rouge stick onto it. Before the rouge sets up the patch is rammed down the bore and worked back and forth. After about 50-75 strokes, the bore is cleaned well and examined again. If needed, a new roughed patch is made and the process repeated.
My own Encore had a very rough barrel that was nearly impossible to load. Gave it the treatment with jeweler's rouge. After about 700 rounds the bore looks much better.
IMO: TC could do better than this.