Help on cleaning my 10FP barrel
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of wait timeSo you can spend 30 minutes drinking a beer or rum (or 3) while the gunslick does it's thing. Or you can spend 30 minutes running endless patches, brushes and solvent down the barrel, only to find out you can't get the small traces of copper out. I vote for having a beer or rum while the gunslick does the work
So you can spend 30 minutes drinking a beer or rum (or 3) while the gunslick does it's thing. Or you can spend 30 minutes running endless patches, brushes and solvent down the barrel, only to find out you can't get the small traces of copper out. I vote for having a beer or rum while the gunslick does the work
I'm with you on that one
I'm going to Silverdale on saturday for some paper punching will bring Gunslick with me
I do clean from chamber up
Rem-Clean and JB eaten through my buddy's barrels few times, seemed that they were damaging the barrel plating
Barrel Plating, what is that? just curious.
Gunnerlove
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Some barrels are internaly plated with crome, usually military rifles as it reduces fouling, corrosion and increases barrel life.
Decreases accuracy in most cases as the plating is done after all other internal machining on the barrel and can alter dimensions slightly.
Decreases accuracy in most cases as the plating is done after all other internal machining on the barrel and can alter dimensions slightly.
From my experience, what you should do is keep a log of your shots fired and your cleaning regimen. Every barrel will be different.
You will get to know what your barrel requires.
As you can see from the previous posts, there is alot of differing opinions on the subject...
I used to worry about seeing copper in my bore and used to scrub, soak and patch the bore etc. in an effort to get every last bit of fouling out, and I finally realized accuracy wasn't affected as much as I thought.
Most of the time after a shooting session now I just run a couple of wet patches through and then dry patch and let it be .
Some of my barrels need to be scrubbed more often than others.
Long and short of it is accuracy. Now I clean when accuracy drops off and not before.
After all, once you fire a bullet down a bore that is sterling clean, it is fouled again, and many barrels shoot better with a little fouling IMO.
I think people worry more about fouling than they need to, and over clean their barrels.
You will get to know what your barrel requires.
As you can see from the previous posts, there is alot of differing opinions on the subject...
I used to worry about seeing copper in my bore and used to scrub, soak and patch the bore etc. in an effort to get every last bit of fouling out, and I finally realized accuracy wasn't affected as much as I thought.
Most of the time after a shooting session now I just run a couple of wet patches through and then dry patch and let it be .
Some of my barrels need to be scrubbed more often than others.
Long and short of it is accuracy. Now I clean when accuracy drops off and not before.
After all, once you fire a bullet down a bore that is sterling clean, it is fouled again, and many barrels shoot better with a little fouling IMO.
I think people worry more about fouling than they need to, and over clean their barrels.
