m1903a1 tryout results

[browningautorifle]

I may try polishing it as suggested first. Then again, the bolt is nowhere near closed on the go gauge, so maybe those SA replacement barrels were short chambered, and whoever put the barrel on never finish reamed it at all.

You can polish and then ream if needed but you can't go backwards. If you can chamber a cartridge it isn't short chambered. Short is far to short to even approach with a cartridge. Once you see one you know what it's like. It's not just a little. This ones starting to sound like a put together by amatures. I have had a few come by that were simply too tight to chamber everything fed to them, that was factory ammo...so a gentle touch with a reamer took out just powder but solved the issues completely. Then a polishing...