If my chamber was .0008 out of round, you couldn't slap the smile off of my face.

I have read that post and found it quite interesting. I am in the process of looking for a smith that will address that problem.

My rifles require proper function first. But, I don't have any interest in a rifle that doesn't shoot well.

I am also looking into the 7mm and 300 WSM's since I need to rebarrel.

Scroll, Sorry to hear you got a bad one. I wonder if USRAC would have any interest in helping, probably not.

Check out this thread:

http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/391338/an/0/page/0#391338

This guy got nice groups with a factory takeoff barrel, maybe you could find a cheap one to swap out........DJ

Is that .008" out of round correct or do you mean .0008". I have a 7mm WSM that produces fired cases .0015" out of round and they will not rechamber without FL sizing.

Also what stock do you have? Mine came with the injection molded one and it had a memory to one side on the forend, a recoil pad with the feel of a ball peen hammer and it was bedded on the magazine!

I would not put any money into a rebarrel to a WSM in a M70 until I read this topic.

Out of round M70 WSM chambers

Send it to John Noveske jnrifleworks.com.

He'll square and true the actions and put a PacNor on there. He's reasonable and GOOD!

Got a 270WSM featherweight blue and walnut and it shoots quite well with everything I've fed it except 130 interbonds which it throws over 4" groups, but this particular batch won't shoot in any .270 cal rifle I have. It really likes accubonds and places 5 under an inch routinely. I had a look down the tube with a Hawkeye borescope and it is the worst finished factory bore we have ever seen. Kinda looks like someone dragged a harrow around a gravel pit and I'm not kidding. Every factory tube I've looked at by any maker is pretty rough but this one is exceptional by all comparisons. The chamber is concentric and rifling is short throated and very steep and abrupt and roughly machined, pits, cavaties and tool marks everywhere down the bore most filling nicely with copper after almost 300 rounds. It is hard to believe it shoots as well as it does consistently. I wish everyone had a real borescope to show them the horrors that nice shiny bore hides as you look down the tube with your naked eye, it will make you a true believer when someone tells you it only costs the factory $10.00 for the barrels they put on new guns. After looking at factory barrels you will be surprised that there is any jacket left on a slug by the time it passes out the end of some of those barrels.

I could live with that group.

I tried that with a 700 Rem. recently. I wound up with a not very good deal. It shoots pretty good, but it has an out of round chamber, too. I don't know if it was the gunsmith who fit the barrel or if the chamber was already out of round. Might as well put that money into a new barrel job as throw it away like I did.

I've never won the lottery either.