Anyone polished their own barrel?

[mossberg man]

The barrel in my 835 is clean and shiny but you can see tool marks in it. Thinking polishing the barrel and forcing cone up might tighten up pattern.
I've heard of people doing this themselves with steel wool or scotch brite sooked in honeing oil over bore brushes in a drill. Brownells also sells a product called a flex hone @ $50 same principal.

I don't mind doing this myself but I don't want to mess up my barrel!!

[westkybanded]

Is it malfunctioning? Blowing patterns? Ejection problems?

If not, why mess with it?

If the chamber area is what is giving you problems, I did my mossberg 500 with a bore brush on a drill with hoppes #9 cleaning solvent.

[mossyhorns]

No. Haven't been that lonely in a while.


But seriously folks, had to send the 11-87 Turkey pole back to Remington after season last year. Just for the heck of it, they polished the barrel and lengthened the forcing cone. Haven't shot it myself, but the patterns they sent back with it looked good. Gunsmith tells me that lengthening the cone and polishing the barrel are the only things that really help the range other than swelling the barrel to 10 gauge size (don't try this at home!).

[CNYGobblerChaser]

I had my 3" 870 barrel polished and the cone lengthened and I wouldn't trade the gun for anything now. I can't shoot 80 yrds but it reaches out to about 50 just fine. I have not had to shoot a bird over 25 yards so I guess it was a waste of $. I would say that the gun shoots a much more consistant group than before but if you get the birds in close who cares, they are going to do a back flip with just about any shotgun. If the gun shoots good practice your calling and save the $.