If you are a target shooter, benchrest shooter, varmint hunter, rifle collector, gunsmith, firearms manufacturer, forensic scientist or even an everyday hunter you will find the Hawkeye borescope a valuable tool for leaning about the care, cleaning and quality of your rifle barrels. A high quality, well maintained rifle barrel leads to tighter groupings on the target. Inspect the lands and grooves in firearm barrels to find erosion, fouling and tool-marks that effect accuracy. Take a look at our Barrel Inspection Video for a first hand view. Following is what one shooting expert has to say.
Rick Jamison
When I started using the HawkeyeŽ 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:
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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? |
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Cleaning
Is the cleaner really working? How much more scrubbing is necessary, and where? Is my cleaning method damaging the bore? |
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Bore Wear
Exactly how worn and rough is my chamber throat? How far down the bore is heat cracking present? |
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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? |
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The condition of a used barrel
Are there nicks, corrosion, fouling, or excessive wear? |
The Hawkeye has given me a first-hand look and taught me things about a rifle that I never knew and I doubt many people know.
Barrels are not the end of the uses of a Hawkeye. I've used mine to examine the interior of loading dies, cartridge cases, and lug recesses. Places that you cannot normally look into are readily accessible with a Hawkeye. The fact is that my Hawkeye is so valuable to me that I wouldn't be without it. After being seriously involved in the shooting sports for a lifetime, I know that after a rifle there are two things I wouldn't be without — a chronograph and a borescope. If I were just starting out today, I would buy both before I purchased my second rifle.
Hawkeye at the Olympics:
USA World Benchrest Team
uses a Hawkeye Borescope to Prepare
for the Olympics.
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Use:
Hawkeye Slim 17"
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Photo at right shows Ken Harrington presenting a Hawkeye 17" Slim Borescope Kit to the Olympic Shooting Center.
Letter from World Team:
Thank you for being part of our World Team effort. With your support, we were able to win the Gold and Bronze Team Medals.
The World Team has asked me to send you this Certificate of Appreciation. We as a team greatly appreciate your help.
I am also enclosing a Thank You Letter from the 2003 World Team, signed by each team member. Where else could you get the signatures of thirteen of the Worlds Best? There are only twenty of these letters in the world.
In 2005 the World Championship will be here in the USA starting September 11, 2005 at Kelbly's Range. We would like for the WBC 8 to be the best ever. The only way this will happen is with your support.
Regards,
Donald Powell
NBRSA World Team
1391 Haney Road
Wheelersburg, Ohio 45694
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