Bore grading standards?

[alvin]

Originally Posted by Edward Tinker

you look down the bore?

I always check the bore. But how important it is depends on variation. For example, the bore of Buller's CH was described as "Good" (a little bit frosted), the thing is so hard to find one, "Good" is acceptable.

But, if it's a 1930, bolo, etc, there are too many of them coming with mint or excellent bore. Actually, on some particular variation, it's hard to find a sample with poor bore, e.g. "Red 9"...... most of those that I met coming with great bore, making me wonder whether German had ever used them or not. Comparing with gun blue, it's relatively hard to cheat on bore.

So, depends on variation.

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[Edit] And lost many oppertunities because of this.