I am looking at purchasing a savage heavy barrel HMR 17.
What kind of mistreating do you have to do to erode the throat or shoot out the barrel on a HMR 17?
A local gun shop has a new 93R17 and a used stainless version of the same gun for basically the same price as the new blued gun.
The SS gun looks like it is in excellent condition, but I have no idea how the gun was treated/shot. Is shooting out the barrel or eroding the throat with this caliber something that is even reasonable?
I tend to lean towards new purchases, but if this SS gun that may not have have been treated the best but has not have suffered the consequences that a larger caliber would have I'll jump on the used SS one.
TIA
What kind of mistreating do you have to do to erode the throat or shoot out the barrel on a HMR 17?
A local gun shop has a new 93R17 and a used stainless version of the same gun for basically the same price as the new blued gun.
The SS gun looks like it is in excellent condition, but I have no idea how the gun was treated/shot. Is shooting out the barrel or eroding the throat with this caliber something that is even reasonable?
I tend to lean towards new purchases, but if this SS gun that may not have have been treated the best but has not have suffered the consequences that a larger caliber would have I'll jump on the used SS one.
TIA