Low rage: One man's rant.

yeah the road was closed i had to take a detour, and ended up further from edmonton than when I started.

Since I missed the class, I think I'm gonna go to Hughes and pressure wash my 10/22. Then it will be good for another 10 years
 
i clean my savage bolt action usualy once every 3 months as it only sees about 200 rounds in that time frame and the marlin semi gets the bore done with a soft mop and a couple of patches every 500 rounds and the action gets stripped and throughly cleaned when the chrome feeding ramp becomes black and chunks of lead and powder are collecting on it usualy happens after about 2000 rounds
 
Everytime someone says that a brass brush is softer than steel and can't damage a barrel.
With that theory, knives, lawnmowers and scissors should never need sharpening and earth moving equipment should never need new teeth and blades.
Have you seen snow shovels polished by the snow?
I've heard of "cord wear" ruining the crown on Lee Enfields from the cleaning pull through.
Have you seen how hay and grain polishes farm machinery like chrome.
 
Ackley tested that 'cord wear' myth back in the 30's. He tied two cleaning cords together and looped the whole thing through the bore of a rifle, and then around the wheel of an electric motor. He turned it on and started looking for evidence of wear, especially where the cord was pulled tight against the crown and the chamber throat. He left it running for days, without detectable wear. At one point he added assorted metal grit from his workshop floor, since that's supposed to be one of the culprits that 'destroy barrels', and left it running for days. No detectable wear. Not a scratch.

Yes under extremely high pressure and continuous use (edge of a knife, earthmoving equipment, snowplow blade) softer materials can wear harder materials.

Running a brass or bronze brush and an aluminum rod through the hard chrome-lined bore of your rifle has 0% chance of 'ruining' that barrel. I just don't believe it.
 
Bishopus said:
Ackley tested that 'cord wear' myth back in the 30's. He tied two cleaning cords together and looped the whole thing through the bore of a rifle, and then around the wheel of an electric motor. He turned it on and started looking for evidence of wear, especially where the cord was pulled tight against the crown and the chamber throat. He left it running for days, without detectable wear. At one point he added assorted metal grit from his workshop floor, since that's supposed to be one of the culprits that 'destroy barrels', and left it running for days. No detectable wear. Not a scratch.

Yes under extremely high pressure and continuous use (edge of a knife, earthmoving equipment, snowplow blade) softer materials can wear harder materials.

Running a brass or bronze brush and an aluminum rod through the hard chrome-lined bore of your rifle has 0% chance of 'ruining' that barrel. I just don't believe it.
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I saw one in Precision shooting where a gunsmith took a file to a Springfield that was a pretty good shooter.
He shot groups, then filed, then shot.
Not a whole lot of difference!
I think the accuracy of those rifles was as much destroyed by their ammonia bath type cleaning than anything!!:eek:

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I find that it is impossible to strip down a rimfire rifle properly, without eventually wearing out the threads on the machined parts, I srip my gun down once a year to give it a good cleaning and every time I come home from a shoot, flush the action with WD-40 to remove the crud and then dry it and wipe as much as I can with gun oil.
 
I'm with your Grizz...How hard is it for some people?

I clean my rimfires, and my center fires as soon as I get home from the range.
If ones rifle is too hard to clean then try another model, or manufacture...or don't even buy it in the first place.
 
Well guys, I went to the range last night with my 10/22. I gave it a good clean with a brass brush first, and then I shot it at 25 yards. I only had time for a couple shots, as it was getting dark, but here they are anyway. They are all 5 shot groups, measured OTO. I had lots of 4 shot groups going into .05 or .04 (CTC), and a flyer opening them up larger.

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Cord wear is a reality, and Ackleys test lacked one MAJOR factor...the inevitable mud, and grit that would find itself attaching to the soldiers cleaning cord.

Just like tennis balls don't wear down dogs teeth...the sand and grit that they pick up on the ball at the beach does.
 
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