Sportered Winchester 1917--recown?

Few months back I glommed a sported 1917 Winchester. It looked like a workman like job of sporting and was cheap enough...

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I stuck a Weaver K4 on this one (didn't care for the United that came with it) and shot it today. The "crown" (or what a gunsmith might laughingly refer to as a crown) is scary looking.

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But even with the scary looking crown, it did ok..threw one to the 12o'clock and one went a bit wide

Question...should I recrown the barrel and hope for an improvement?

6 180 gr Federal Powr-shoks @ 100 yards
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Guess what I meant to ask is : How much improvement could I expect from a re-crown?

I bet you could see pretty significant improvement. That muzzle looks pretty rough. A quick and fairly easy job. Shouldn't be too expensive either. Don't live close to a gunsmith - then you might want to try this: Muzzle Re-crowning Tool Kit (Manson) - Gun Tool Rentals . For arounf $40 you can do the job yourself and not be out too much cash if the change isn't all that great. The guy who makes the tool has some videos on youtube. I have been considering this for my Patt. 14, just haven't goten around to it.

Stuart

I recently got the barrel recrowned. The gunsmith recommended a very slight re cut and then recrowned the barrel.

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Much better than the old "crown"
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I hope to get to the range this week and see if there is an improvement.

Got to the range yesterday for a quick session. Didn't get many shots downrange, but did shoot a few with the sported 1917.

I was a little disappointed in the results...Federal PS's at 100 yards...only had time for a few shots...looks like about 2.5 MOA

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I can't blame the new crown...it looks good

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I'm not sure if I got everything back into the stock correctly...or if it needs a little firing to settle everything. There doesn't seem to be much up pressure on the barrel at the tip of the stock either...might have to shim the tang a bit.

The bore is one of the single biggest accuracy factors and its going to need a good crown job to find out for sure.

You are also working off a limited data set. Go through the gun and make sure its set in the stock right and screws are good and tight. Shoot more groups using the same ammo. Don''t get hung up on trying to hit a spot, just shoot for groups and see what it does. If you can get it to shoot consistently (no matter what the MOA) then you can tune it in for a spot. 2.5 MOA may be the best it can do but again thats way to little info to decide that or even make changes on.

And while I am not an expert, so far of all the ones I have checked, the stock is not shimmed, i.e. the end rattles.

They may have not intended for these to have tension. I messed with my first one and it made no difference (actually got worse).

Need to read back in the manuals to see what they had in mind

Don't forget that your rifle just may not shoot one make of ammo and will shoot another make much better. Of course if you reload your ahead of the game as you can twick your loads to get the best accuracy.