BP bbls can be remarkably tolerant of 'freckling' ---

by John Meeker , After double-actions came on the market?, Tuesday, July 24, 2012, 20:21 (4303 days ago) @ brionic

one trick i have used to polish things a bit, was after a good scrubbing out, to grease my patches with auto-finish rubbing compound. The cheapstuff from big box is ol: red for staters and the white to finish. Don't overdo it: just knock off the worst and mebbe see a bit of dull glean coming around.

When you clean it after shooting, run a patch of compound up and down a bit, and then finish it off with the regular stuff you use. Cheaper than a new bbl, and if you have knocked off the worst of it, a good tough greased patch will continue to minutely smooth it out.

just a thought. The breech end of my .40 cal Mountain squirrel rifle looked pretty bad when I pulled the plug, but a decade later it still shoots better than I can hold it.ybthw