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gsd:
As many of you may know, I have an 1891 Argentine Mauser that has been in the family for close to 80 years. She's been a faithful deer rifle for many of those, but recently she stopped holding groups as tight. Im afraid she's fired her last solid group.

Cross roads here is, do I rebarrel her or retire her to safe duty? If I retire her I'm left with close to 300 rounds of hand loaded ammo, but rebarrelling isn't exactly cheap. And I'm broke.

Opinions?

Lmbass14:
Dave, keep it as is, and let her retire and be a safe queen.  You can always sell the handloads at the gun show.

Mudinyeri:
How bag are the groups?  I have a couple old rifles of my dad's that have the barrels pretty well shot out of them but they still hold "minute of deer".

bkoenig:
I still say just get the barrel relined.  Cheaper than a rebarrel and it won't change the looks.  And you can DIY with tools from Brownells.

gsd:
Toby, it went from 1.5" to roughly 4" in one year. While I agree, minute of deer is minute of deer, old rather not chance wounding an animal with a shot outside the kill zone.

Brian, I still think you have more faith in my abilities than I do haha.

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