Question for the TR, F/TR and F open guys?

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For all you guys that shoot TR , F/TR and F open, what is your cleaning method and what cleaning products do you use? I know everyone has a different method but I am just looking to see what people are using.

Thanks
 
Hahahaha This should be good.

Um, well, when I DO clean, I use wipe-out, let it sit and wipe it out. I will scope the bore and if carbon still hasn't been dealt with, some Butch's Bore shine and a nylon brush are what I use. I don't clean very often. Scrubs the "V"'s out. I've tried lots of things and they all work. the only part that needs to be cleaned is the throat, and if you have a build up, some bore paste often does the trick. I like the denial approach and just pretend it doesn't need cleaning. This has worked well for me.
 
The less I push a brush through the bore the better. This means I don't have to recrown so often.
I'm into RemClean/JB Paste method. No bare brushes touch the bore.
One patch of synthetic motor oil,
One patch wrapped tightly around a brass brush for appropriate bore size, add JB/40X Cleaner whatever, stroke 5 times back and forth,
Two patches of Hoppes# 9

YMMV
 
Depends what I'm shooting. Moly coated bullets may go hundreds of rounds before cleaning or end of the season first for F-Class.
Testing various rounds with uncoated bullets might go anywhere from 20 or 50 rds before scrubbing as I'm working up loads at the bench.

Oh yes, you are going to get a lot of different techniques. Have fun figuring it all out. ;)
 
I should explain more. Why do we clean? I think there are only two reasons, to preserve a gun or to make it shoot better. If it is a gun I shoot every week then why clean if I don't need to. If it is a gun I shoot once a year then I need to clean to be sure there are not corrosion issues. I have guns not cleaned in years with no corrosion issues. I have lots to do without cleaning more than I need to!










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I clean when accuracy falls off, this for my rifles can be 500+ rounds. if they are gonna sit for a while i i run an oiled patch threw them, then wipe out befor use. other then that i dont really bother with much

i use wipe out foaming bore cleaner but im more concerned with the carbon coming out then the copper, so i dont let it soak for hours on end
 
I should explain more. Why do we clean? I think there are only two reasons, to preserve a gun or to make it shoot better.
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To build on that a bit, a good smooth barrel is hard to build up much fouling in so why clean it? A rougher barrel usually needs a number of fouling shots to settle in, so why take it out when it just has to be put back in again?Then there's the heavily fouling barrels that need to be cleaned to shoot halfway decent. Why would a guy want to preserve something like that? Any way you slice it, there just isn't much reason to clean a barrel unless it either:
1) quits shooting.
2) gets rained on.
3)Is going into longer term storage.
4)you live by an ocean.
 
Yes, good responces here and I tend to follow sparingly cleaning that Kreiger pipe mounted on my action. This is an easy task as most of "us" shoot in the warmest and driest months (here in landlocked western Canada) anyways. Wipe Out is my favorite too, with a post cleaning inspection of any stubborn buildup.
 
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My Dad - a WWII veteran - instilled in me the old adage 'don't go to sleep with a dirty rifle' which I took to heart and therefore for many years I cleaned my rifles after each outing. Gradually I became a convert to the school of thought that says only clean it when the groups open up and that is my current practice ( unless using surplus rifles with corrosive ammo of course ). For cleaning of F Class rifles I use 'Wipe Out' and patches and only very occasionally use a nylon brush.
 
Keep good notes and clean as needed.

clean enough to restore accuracy not necessarily to see white patches.

Each barrel has its own quirks to listen to what it tells you.

In a competition barrel, know how many fouling shots gets you back in tune AND where your first shot of the day will go.

I am not a wipe out user. Life is way too short....

Jerry
 
Tomochan said:
My Dad - a WWII veteran - instilled in me the old adage 'don't go to sleep with a dirty rifle' which I took to heart and therefore for many years I cleaned my rifles after each outing. Gradually I became a convert to the school of thought that says only clean it when the groups open up and that is my current practice ( unless using surplus rifles with corrosive ammo of course ). For cleaning of F Class rifles I use 'Wipe Out' and patches and only very occasionally use a nylon brush.
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I used to be that way too... but when it comes down to it, the reason they cleaned so often back then is because their ammo was corrosive.
 
@TrxR I am lazy and time and chemistry do most of my barrel cleaning.

Most days I'll put a couple of patches soaked with Hoppes #9 through the barrel, and leave the barrel soaking (either horizontally on my bench, or muzzle-down in my gunrack). Every time I pass through my gunroom I'll push a single patch soaked with Hoppes through the bore - this takes out a lot of green and black from the previous patch, and puts fresh bore solvent in there.

A wet patch a day (or week), done three or five times, removes as much as a great deal more scrubbing.

I've not used wipe out but I expect it's just a higher tech or higher cost version of what I am doing?

Obviously one has to be quite rigorous when dealing with potentially corrosive situations - blackpowder fouling or corrosive primer fouling needs to be dealt with immediately and properly.
 
I don't clean very often, only when the groups open up. Foaming bore cleaner while having a rum, then a few dry patches down the bore. Once in a while after cleaning I will run a patch of Sweet's 7.62 down the bore to see if there is any copper fouling (usually isn't). Then a patch of Kroil and then dry patch again.
 
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