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Rick Jamison
When I started using the Hawkeye® Borescope, I was amazed at
the clarity of the view with this relatively inexpensive and easy-to-use device. The Hawkeye gives you an up-close and magnified
view inside a rifle barrel, so that you know precisely what is there, without guessing. Without a borescope you have no way
to know what is going on inside your rifle's bore because you simply cannot see it. Holding a barrel up to the light and
looking through it from one end is all but worthless, when it comes to judging its condition.
After looking through
scores of barrels, I have gotten an education about all sorts of things and these are just some of them:
 | The condition of a new barrel
What is the surface
condition like? Have the reamer marks been lapped out? Are there major blemishes? Was the chamber throat cut concentric, indicating
a straight barrel in this region, or is it longer on one side? How smooth are the chamber and throat? |  | Cleaning
Is the cleaner really working? How much
more scrubbing is necessary, and where? Is my cleaning method damaging the bore? |  | Bore Wear
Exactly how worn and rough is my chamber
throat? How far down the bore is heat cracking present? |  | Fouling
How fouled is the bore and where does
fouling occur — in the bottom of the groove, on the leading edge of the land, on the top surface of the land —
or where? |  | The condition of a used barrel
Are there nicks,
corrosion, fouling, or excessive wear |
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