Is there a good guide (preferably with photos) to bore condition(s)? I am somewhat confused by the terms: minty, strong, bright, frosty, dark, etc. The Blue Book of gun values does a nice job on overall conditon rating but not on bore condition.
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Is there a good guide (preferably with photos) to bore condition(s)? I am somewhat confused by the terms: minty, strong, bright, frosty, dark, etc. The Blue Book of gun values does a nice job on overall conditon rating but not on bore condition.
One of my best purchases I have made was a bore scope. It shows you things that the eye with a bore light would miss. It helps when buying a rifle at a show or dealer. Unseen I have had guys post " mirror bore" and when I looked at it with the bore scope it was so worn near the chamber area it looked like it had been cleaned with a wire brush on a drill.
I got a chance to try one of these over the summer http://www.brownells.com/gunsmith-t...ent-lens-17-slim-borescope-kit-prod44685.aspx checked out my mosin......im did not like what i saw, it looked really nice to my eye. Still shoots decent but got some nasty pits here and there