Daystate Red Wolf accuracy problem

What pellet was the program set for from the factory? There seems to be an assumption that it is the 25.39 redesign. Mine came set for the Monster Beast 33.95. I didn't look until I couldn't get a decent group at 50 yards. The card that came from Daystate had 33.95 Beast at 925 fps. I obtained a tin and had the advertised velocity. Still wouldn't group better than 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 at 50 yards. I pulled the barrel and inspected the barrel. Transfer port seemed to have burrs. The breech area had chatter marks and and scoring in several places. Two of the grooves had severe distortion. My conclusion is that I didn't win the barrel lottery. Sent it back to AOA. Still there. Heard that they are trying to work on the barrel. Sorry guys you can not fix a bad barrel. I have pictures of the inside.

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Update. Got it back from AOA last week. All they did was polish with JB borepaste. Did nothing at all. Sent targets shot a 20 yards. Said was one of better RedWolfs have seen. Pictures are the same as the ones above. Did manage 1 group at 50 yds that was.898 ctcs. Not good enough. Have contacted Daystate UK. Email this morning said was calling AOA today. See what happens now.
 
I'll offer a couple of thoughts, but remember, I'm no expert, although I do own a Red Wolf. First, I'm not sure your expectations are fully realistic. The groups above seem to indicate that the rifle is willing to shoot. I don't know the conditions under which the target was shot, or anything about your bench technique, both of which are important. I would clean the barrel and shoot it more. My experience with the Red Wolf is similar to yours, although mine is standard power. I also had to replace the original barrel, and it shoots very well now. I haven't done a chrono run in a while, but I can tell you it is not as consistent as my regulated rifles. But frankly, it doesn't have to be, as it shoots very well. If pushed to its extreme distance, then I expect that a higher degree of consistency would be noticeable. I had a HP Red Wolf for a short while, and I know the poly barrel in that rifle required more diligence in cleaning that the cut rifled barrel in the standard power rifle. My guess, with attention to barrel maintenance and shooting technique, your rifle may be okay.
My Hp doesn't have a poly barrel. Has lands and grooves.
 
I went and seen my dealer. He has not heard anything from AOA. I know that Daystaye UK contacted them.
I also noticed the borescope pictures of my bad barrel have been deleted. Wonder why that is. Not wanting to admit it is junk.

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Looking at your borescope pics that is lead on the lands and grooves not pitting.

I’ve seen this on every high velocity gun barrel I’ve owned. Try a product called GUNZILLA it is very good at getting lead out, you will see silver shards on the patch not the dark streaks on the patches from the release agent coating the pellets.

There’s more aggressive ways to clean out the lead but I don’t want to start this conversation because many will criticize these methods.

Polishing the barrel is not going to totally eliminate leading as many want you to believe.
 
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I have a Red Wolf HP in .22 cal. With the Gen 2 board. It shoots the 25 grn. RD pellets at 970fps on the medium power setting. It seems to me if this is truly a HP model you have, your velocities seem low. If you have access to a Daystate programmer I would check your perimeters.
That speed is with 33.95 JSB
 
I have a Red Wolf HP in .22 cal. With the Gen 2 board. It shoots the 25 grn. RD pellets at 970fps on the medium power setting. It seems to me if this is truly a HP model you have, your velocities seem low. If you have access to a Daystate programmer I would check your perimeters.
Mine shoots RD pellets at 970 on Med power. They throw random fliers as well. The barrel is bad and not getting any satisfaction on warranty. AOA failed. They seen the pictures and ignored them. I am sure the tech that did this doesn't want this barrel on his rifle.