Clean barrel??

[L Ross]

My anally retentive gun smith friend loathes the concept of .22 priming compound and powder debris laying in the bottom of his barrel. He puts a cut off Q-Tip in the chamber and blows it through with compressed air. He has a bore scope and is nuts in a very good way.
I run one patch soaked with Ed's Red on a 17 caliber jag followed by one dry patch and I don't find any need to shoot a bunch of rounds through it to reestablish good grouping.

 

[RicinYakima]

My anally retentive gun smith friend loathes the concept of .22 priming compound and powder debris laying in the bottom of his barrel. He puts a cut off Q-Tip in the chamber and blows it through with compressed air. He has a bore scope and is nuts in a very good way.
I run one patch soaked with Ed's Red on a 17 caliber jag followed by one dry patch and I don't find any need to shoot a bunch of rounds through it to reestablish good grouping.

Back when CMP was selling Remington 40X's and Winchester Model 52D's cheap, I bought several of each as I was shooting BR50 at the time, 1990's. The were from the day of "never clean the bore" and ROTC. All had half bore "shadows" in front of the chamber. None ever came close to shooting as well as a put together Remington Model 37 civilian rifle.

Your gunsmith friend is correct; bore needs to be clean every couple of thousand rounds.

 

[L Ross]

Back when CMP was selling Remington 40X's and Winchester Model 52D's cheap, I bought several of each as I was shooting BR50 at the time, 1990's. The were from the day of "never clean the bore" and ROTC. All had half bore "shadows" in front of the chamber. None ever came close to shooting as well as a put together Remington Model 37 civilian rifle.

Your gunsmith friend is correct; bore needs to be clean every couple of thousand rounds.

Well both he and I remove the debris immediately after a shooting session now. Takes a couple of minutes. My Kidd 10-22 gets a Hoppe's bore snake and a squirt of Hornady One Shot cleaner on it. The other .22's get the 17 rod and jag and one wet one dry loose patch.

 

[Jeff H]

Now that (I think) I've assembled the small collection of barrels I intend to used for the remainder of my shooting days...

I'm really just working an experiment which started about 2008, which will continue until I can no longer reach or open the actions of my guns.

I shoot all cast and mostly 45/45/10 or Ben's BLL on wheel weights, 50/50 wheel weights/pure lead, or whatever scrounged, mongrel "alloy" will melt in my pot and pour nice bullets. PC, reserved for the suppressed carbine.

I'll give the bores one in/out swipe with a JUST DAMP/not-dripping patch of Ed's Red, let it sit "a while" and then run a dry patch through. I'm down to probably less than an ounce of the original Break-Free, so I don't use it other than for aroma-therapy.

It is often a long time between range sessions for a given barrel, so I feel I have to do SOMETHING, just in case I don't shoot a given gun again for two years.

The only reason I can give for this particular regimen is that it just seems like the thing to do. Can't say it helps, but I'm fairly confident that it doesn't hurt.

 

[BBerguson]

Maybe this is the answer to my 44 magnum woes. I don’t clean the barrel but maybe I just need a lot more rounds through it. I’ve been teaching a kid how to reload and letting him shoot what he loads. Maybe I should let him load and fire a few hundred rounds through it and see if it improves.

 

[Mainiac]

From my years of br shooting,and allowing copper to iron into bore,,,i clean every bore i shoot,,,i mean clean,down to bare steel.
I enjoy cleaning my tools.

I was big into flintlocks for a while,,them have to be cleaned,,so its just a habit,i guess.

But, i know my guns shoot very well.

 

[Rockydoc]

The handling of shotgun shells with sweaty hands causes the chambers of my Browning Superposed to rust, so I clean and oil the chambers after each hunt/shoot. My Miroku over/under has chrome lined barrels so not a problem with it.

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

I just cleaned my Marlin SQ barrel... Its a Marlin 7000 barrelled action in crap stock. But I re stocked to a pretty and great shooting HB bolt "22".

Anyhow. No issues with how it shot BUT MAN I had about a 1-2" tight spot 3/4 of the way down, that I'm assuming, was lead and fouling. I could hardly get a patch thru. At first I thought I just had a dry patch... Nope a sopping patch stopped nearly dead!! Ran a nylon brush and cleared that out. Now I wanna try it again!

Last group @ 50 was a ragged 3/8" W/EPS eley

CW

 

[fiver]

that's the relax point of the bullet,, and lube smears build up right there.
you just found exactly what i was looking for in my earlier post.

 

[popper]

Yup, after several wet patches/ nylon brush and dry, bore is still filthy 3/4 way. Patches come out pretty clean so time for bronze brush.