Someone took a chisel to my rifle!

[smle-man]

I bought a used Remington 760 from a nice bloke a while ago. He had obtained it through a friend's estate. Looked to be in good shape and I like the 760 so I bought it, shot it on one range trip and let it sit. I decided to take it all down and give it a good cleaning the other night. For those who don't know, the barrel pulls out the front of the receiver on these arms.

Once I had it all down and started cleaning it i noticed that for some reason, someone appears to have used a chisel on the inside of the receiver, perhaps to pry the bolt back. There are matching gouges on the left receiver side and the upper receiver as if a sharp chisel was put in in a couple different places. Nasty gouges and not just some wear and tear.

I was pretty lax in my examination of the rifle when I bought it and I'm confident the chap who sold it wasn't aware of the issue either. I realize now that there is roughness in the bolt travel because of the gouges.

My fault for not looking closely. Now I'm attempting to resist the temptation to take a dremel to the gouges to smooth them out. More arms have been ruined by the use of a dremel than all the gun buy-backs combined (or so it seems).

[thedrickel]

Start with a file maybe?

[jdmacl]

Is this a question or a statement?

[hambam105]

Never want to under-estimate the improvements one can do to a Remington using cheap rusty harbor freight pluming tools.

[SonofWWIIDI]

[justMike]

If you can access the area with a ball shaped tool end maybe you could peen the high spots down enough to make the bolt smoother.

[smle-man]

Is this a question or a statement?

My post was more of a lament with a warning to look really closely when buying.