That bald headed Geordie Posted October 14, 2019 Report Share Posted October 14, 2019 Many years ago I had the Hawkeye Borescope and it was good but expensive and eventually sold it. But I recently felt the need to get something not quite as expensive but whilst checking out the 6BR website forum I noticed that a new flexi borescope was mentioned and quite a large number of shooters purchased them from Amazon. The optical results seemed to please our American cousins so I went onto the companies website to check out the type I wanted (NGT Rifle Borescope) and ordered it on the 5th Oct and it turned up today. So not too bad considering it came from China and I wasn't ripped off money wise and all went according to plan. The company is Teslong and I wanted to test it to make sure it was compatible with my Macbook Pro. So there are only 2 parts to it, one being the flexi cable with mirror and light source and the other being the USB connector and a dimmer switch on the cable. The flexi mirror part is about 1 metre long so good enough for most barrels. The mirror section is 0.194 diameter and is adjustable to give optimum focus dependent upon the bore diameter. I used mine on my 6BRA barrels and also my .284 Win barrels with no problems. There is another version for barrels of 0.223 diameter and smaller I believe. I took a couple of photos of old and new barrels on my heavy gun and have attached some below. I tried to download 2 vids but they exceed the maximum permitted. The first photo is of my old barrel in 6BRA and shows the carbon ring. The second photo is of my new unused Bartlein barrel chambered for 6BRA. Optical quality is quite good I think. It didn't cost a fortune and I think I paid about £45 or so and it came via DHL and is trackable and arrived as promised. Definitely worth a look I think and no I am not importing them so get one yourself lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elwood Posted October 14, 2019 Report Share Posted October 14, 2019 I have one on order. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T3_tinker Posted October 26, 2019 Report Share Posted October 26, 2019 Just got mine, great bit of kit for the price!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catch-22 Posted October 26, 2019 Report Share Posted October 26, 2019 I too got mine after reading the piece in Accurateshooter. Super happy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT3_richy Posted October 26, 2019 Report Share Posted October 26, 2019 Got a link to the exact item please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catch-22 Posted October 26, 2019 Report Share Posted October 26, 2019 1 hour ago, GT3_richy said: Got a link to the exact item please? https://www.teslong.com/catalog-c/rifle-bore-scope Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onehole Posted October 31, 2019 Report Share Posted October 31, 2019 Just received mine today only took a week or so,,,,brilliant device and all for the price of a box of bullets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
les Posted October 31, 2019 Report Share Posted October 31, 2019 On 10/14/2019 at 5:59 PM, Elwood said: I have one on order. Me too. I just hope the results aren't too frightening. 😱 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brushy Posted October 31, 2019 Report Share Posted October 31, 2019 These are great. What you think is clean, isn’t. I will no longer use nylon cleaning brushes for this reason.,, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris-NZ Posted October 31, 2019 Report Share Posted October 31, 2019 You're right about the ignorance aspect but some "detail" you're seeing is so microscopic, it's irrelevant, esp in barrel a good half way through their life. Some people will be tempted to take extreme measures like JBs every time to get a "perfect" clean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baldie Posted November 1, 2019 Report Share Posted November 1, 2019 I'm going to get one of these for use in the shop. It will be far better to let customers look at a laptop, rather than watch them trying to bend my hawkeye.... One point I would make though....it takes a pretty experienced eye, too "read" a borescope. There are a lot of guys who are going to frighten themselves to death . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No i deer Posted November 1, 2019 Report Share Posted November 1, 2019 I am going to get myself one if there's any left, I'm curious to how my bore cleaning regime is and what I may have missed. I'm sure it will come to have many uses besides rifle bores.... I will have as you say Dave train my eyes too it. There's no substitute for experience..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
les Posted November 1, 2019 Report Share Posted November 1, 2019 3 hours ago, baldie said: I'm going to get one of these for use in the shop. It will be far better to let customers look at a laptop, rather than watch them trying to bend my hawkeye.... One point I would make though....it takes a pretty experienced eye, too "read" a borescope. There are a lot of guys who are going to frighten themselves to death . Do you have any tips for the "borescope virgins" amongst us, Dave? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onehole Posted November 1, 2019 Report Share Posted November 1, 2019 16 hours ago, Chris-NZ said: You're right about the ignorance aspect but some "detail" you're seeing is so microscopic, it's irrelevant, esp in barrel a good half way through their life. Some people will be tempted to take extreme measures like JBs every time to get a "perfect" clean. Your right no need to get too alarmed I,ve looked at all my barrels now and all have some copper and carbon in there after my cleaning regime but they are all smooth on the patch and rod and shoot extremely well and would not be taking on any more aggressive measures. Throat areas were interesting and all except my 243 showed pretty crisp well defined concentric tapering to the lands without any cracking I could see so far.Oldest barrel was 12 twist 6BR Kreiger with around 12-1300 rounds and never shot in any hurry. The 243 however had two lands being eaten away before the others and easy to see firecracking on every land.This barrel[non stainless] is on a Sabatti varmint rifle with some 6/700 rounds down it and i do admit to running it a bit warm on the range occasionally.It shoots very well though and again cant feel anything nasty whilst cleaning . Unusually for me but must admit to not using a bore guide on this rifle and probably the reason for two lands wearing so best I get something to fit asap!! Apart from bore scoping this little tool will be sure to have other uses in the workshop I expect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronin Posted November 1, 2019 Report Share Posted November 1, 2019 Thanks Great post and although I own a Hawkeye will be getting one of these too - valuable addition with the ability to record on the Mac Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elwood Posted November 1, 2019 Report Share Posted November 1, 2019 Carbon ring build up in the neck, after 12 shots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No i deer Posted November 5, 2019 Report Share Posted November 5, 2019 😳 after just 12 shots Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
palo Posted November 11, 2019 Report Share Posted November 11, 2019 I got mine a few days ago. It's better than my Lyman one that cost me £285 a few months ago. My mate bought one a few weeks ago but it wasn't working properly so he emailed them and they sent him out a new one straight away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlts Posted November 11, 2019 Report Share Posted November 11, 2019 What sort of delivery time have people experienced with these? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tubby10 Posted November 11, 2019 Report Share Posted November 11, 2019 Mine was relatively quick 3 days via amazon, are you sure you want to do this though? I was very happy not knowing what everything looked like inside and it’s made me paranoid. you can’t un-see all that fouling you thought you’d scrubbed away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elwood Posted November 12, 2019 Report Share Posted November 12, 2019 8 hours ago, tubby10 said: Mine was relatively quick 3 days via amazon, are you sure you want to do this though? I was very happy not knowing what everything looked like inside and it’s made me paranoid. you can’t un-see all that fouling you thought you’d scrubbed away. Wait until you look inside your ear! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baldie Posted November 12, 2019 Report Share Posted November 12, 2019 On 11/1/2019 at 12:23 PM, onehole said: Your right no need to get too alarmed I,ve looked at all my barrels now and all have some copper and carbon in there after my cleaning regime but they are all smooth on the patch and rod and shoot extremely well and would not be taking on any more aggressive measures. Throat areas were interesting and all except my 243 showed pretty crisp well defined concentric tapering to the lands without any cracking I could see so far.Oldest barrel was 12 twist 6BR Kreiger with around 12-1300 rounds and never shot in any hurry. The 243 however had two lands being eaten away before the others and easy to see firecracking on every land.This barrel[non stainless] is on a Sabatti varmint rifle with some 6/700 rounds down it and i do admit to running it a bit warm on the range occasionally.It shoots very well though and again cant feel anything nasty whilst cleaning . Unusually for me but must admit to not using a bore guide on this rifle and probably the reason for two lands wearing so best I get something to fit asap!! Apart from bore scoping this little tool will be sure to have other uses in the workshop I expect. Nothing to do with not using a bore guide Dave. You wouldn't wear two lands away by cleaning, if you did it every day. The lands have worn/dissapeared, because it highly likely its a Hammer forged barrel. Especially the chrome moly ones, are very hard, but very brittle. pieces simply fly off. Saw it on a TRG .338 not long back. Lowish round count, and six inch of one land, completely missing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tubby10 Posted November 12, 2019 Report Share Posted November 12, 2019 1 hour ago, Elwood said: Wait until you look inside your ear! I was just warming up for doing my own colonoscopy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No i deer Posted November 12, 2019 Report Share Posted November 12, 2019 I will try in mine on my current labourer just too prove he has nothing inbetween his ears. If he had a brain it would be like new as he's never used it 🙄 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapua Posted November 12, 2019 Report Share Posted November 12, 2019 11 hours ago, Charlts said: What sort of delivery time have people experienced with these? I ordered one last week and checked this morning, delivery quoted by end of month. I think it was supposed to be quicker than that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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