bullfrog99
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wandering around my local gun shop, you know the feeling, no money, but want to be there anyways, well i saw a rack with some ak rifles. there was a few trade ins, a mak 90 and a solitary sar-1 marked used sitting there. so i was picking up the ak's one at a time, and when i got to the sar-1, out of habbit, i racked back the slide and inspected the chamber, then holding open the bolt and holding the gun so the bolt face reflected some light i looked down the bore, to my suprise i didn't see any rifleing. "Optical illusion" i said to myself, and re-positioned the gun for better light gathering, still looked like a smoothbore. I went to the guy at the counter and asked if he had a flashlight or something, he said he didn't but allowed me to field strip it at the counter so i could hold it up to the light, both me and him inspected it, wierdest thing i ever did see, somehow the gun was either shipped un rifled, or somewhere along the line some dip**** bored out the barrel. anyone ever heard of anything that wierd before? I refuse to beleive that someone would be stupid enough to bore out the rifling on a gun, but there it was is this some weird un-accurizing procedure that i missed somehow?
JK. I dunno. Marlin has a "garden gun" smoothbore in .22 mag - makes for a better pattern than a rifled bbl when shooting encapsulated shot - maybe someone was shooting capsule shot handloads in .311 (???) out of the AK, and smoothed the bore, or just a factory error (ha - no wonder it's for re-sale!). I like the idea of humbling someone - wonder if the original owner was humbled to the point of giving up on shooting altogether - hope not.
