How can one tell if the outer forcing cone of my Redhaw has

barrel. You could shoot 100 rounds thru that Redhawk every week for the rest of your life and never wear it out. I had a fellow bring in a Remington model 700 in 308 made in the late 70s or early 80s recently and wanted us to put a new barrel on it. I looked down the barrel and asked him why. He said he had run between 700 and 800 rounds thru it and his "expert" friends told him it was shot out. I told him when her gets 25,000 rounds thru it bring it in and I will check it out for him. In the meantime quit listening to his idiot friends. These days with the much better steels we have the chances of having a barrel shot out is almost non existent. So don't worry about wearing out your Redhawk barrel. It ain't gonna happen.