I have a buddy of mine that had trouble with acccuracy in his BLR .308 and I am not a smith by any standards-a tinkerer perhaps. He sent me his rifle as I had thought that his riflings were packed from yrs of use.

I used CR-10 numreous times to clean out the bore. Looks good and now does shine. Fired off a few rounds of factory fodder and and trigger pull was very lousy. Shots were low at 100ydsd-due to the trigger pull.

Had one primer literally blow out of the case. Was laying in the receiver when I opened up the bolt. Noticed magazine had powder on the follower. Seems like Browning makes a strong rifle.

About the trigger pull lapse. Is firing pin hanging up I wonder and if it is how easily done is disassembling one these rifles? I have no idea of his prior problems excepty accuracies were not good.

Ideas?

okay, this is not a popular topic for some or maybe all. I fired off a few rounds after cleaning the bore out thoroughly and wiped it all out as previously mentioned. I suspect after the last shot and seeing some "wet" around the geared bolt head some CR-10 that migrated out of the bolt body and into the chamber-perhaps. This may have caused the "peirced" primer.

On another site I was pretty much told to not simply take it apart as it is somewhat difficult to get timed back together. Was told if I do anything to take the buttstock out and soak the receiver in diesel and the next day blow it out with compressed air.

So now you all have it- the answer to cleaning out a BLR-ha. Kind of old school. Gawd I like chatting with myself. I hate it when a thread is "dead".