Your suggestion sounds like a good one RD. My LGS put a bore scope in the rifle yesterday and couldn't find a thing wrong with the bore. The restriction at the breech end of the rifling didn't show up to the camera/naked eye to him so it must be just enough to feel but not see. Fire lapping might help, but I would hate to lap the entire barrel. Only the very end of the breech needs some relief. As it is, a .299" pilot for a reamer won't go in it. A friend suggested lapping just the beginning of the rifling with a bore brush or mop with some polishing compound inserted through the muzzle into the chamber, then just stroking it in and out of the rifling at the breech end. Sounds logical but the practical application may not be as easy as describing it.
Numrich has NOS 18.5" barrels for it in stock. That is the alternative.
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I would use a wood doll cut a slit in the end and wrap some 600 grit wet dry around it. Chuck it in a drill and have at it.
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