Forums.NitroExpress.com

Home | Ezine | Forums | Links | Contact NitroExpress.com: Copper fouling - to clean or not to clean

View recent messages : 24 hours | 48 hours | 7 days | 14 days | 30 days | 60 days | More Smilies

*** Enjoy NitroExpress.com? Participate and join in. ***

You are not logged in. [Login]

Main Index · Search · Active Topics
New user · Who's Online · FAQ · Calendar

Double Rifles, Single Shots & Combinations >> Double Rifles

gwh
.333 member

Reged: 28/01/08
Posts: 277
Loc: Cairns Australia

Copper fouling - to clean or not to clean
05/09/13 07:53 PM

Hello all.

Had an interesting discussion with an experienced gunsmith today about barrel cleaning on doubles. I use boretech eliminator on my rifles and find that it gets rid of all of the copper and carbon. I mentioned that my Merkel 470NE copper fouls after relatively few rounds and asked what his thoughts were (I had been cleaning it back to steel after each shooting session).

He has the same rifle in 500NE and is of the opinion that there is no requirement to clean copper fouling out (no harm in doing it, just that it doesn't do anything for accuracy). He only cleans out the carbon with a quality oil and a brush but leaves the copper alone.

The logic being that barrels in doubles have a number of inconsistencies compared to a bolt gun/ single barrel as a result of the soldering process and adding the rib. Allowing copper fouling to build fills and rounds out these inconsistencies and in general smooths the bore for consistent shooting.

This is a school of thought I have heard previously but it holds more sway when a gunsmith experienced in doubles voices his opinion.

I'd be interested to hear others thoughts and opinions.

best regards

Nathan

--------------------
Hunt hard, shoot straight

"I speak of Africa and golden joys; the joy of wandering through lonely lands; the joy of hunting the mighty and terrible lords of the wilderness, the cunning, the wary and the grim"

Theodore Roosevelt, Khartoum, 1910

Post Extras

Print Post

Remind Me!

Notify Moderator

Entire topic
Subject	Posted by	Posted on
Copper fouling - to clean or not to clean	gwh	05/09/13 07:53 PM
Re: Copper fouling - to clean or not to clean	Rule303	08/09/13 08:56 AM
Re: Copper fouling - to clean or not to clean	Marrakai	09/09/13 09:06 AM
Re: Copper fouling - to clean or not to clean	DarylS	11/09/13 01:27 AM
Re: Copper fouling - to clean or not to clean	ozhunter	10/09/13 08:29 PM
Re: Copper fouling - to clean or not to clean	Well_Well_Well	05/09/13 08:22 PM
Re: Copper fouling - to clean or not to clean	mauserand9mm	05/09/13 08:57 PM
Re: Copper fouling - to clean or not to clean	Mike_Bailey	05/09/13 09:36 PM
Re: Copper fouling - to clean or not to clean	gwh	05/09/13 10:17 PM
Re: Copper fouling - to clean or not to clean	500Nitro	05/09/13 10:38 PM
Re: Copper fouling - to clean or not to clean	gungadoug	05/09/13 10:57 PM
Re: Copper fouling - to clean or not to clean	DarylS	06/09/13 12:32 AM
Re: Copper fouling - to clean or not to clean	mauserand9mm	06/09/13 01:29 PM
Re: Copper fouling - to clean or not to clean	500Nitro	06/09/13 02:03 PM
Re: Copper fouling - to clean or not to clean	mauserand9mm	06/09/13 02:51 PM
Re: Copper fouling - to clean or not to clean	500Nitro	06/09/13 03:16 PM
Re: Copper fouling - to clean or not to clean	gwh	06/09/13 06:15 PM
Re: Copper fouling - to clean or not to clean	gwh	06/09/13 07:48 PM
Re: Copper fouling - to clean or not to clean	bwananelson	07/09/13 04:28 AM
Re: Copper fouling - to clean or not to clean	tinker	07/09/13 07:09 AM
Re: Copper fouling - to clean or not to clean	CptCurl	07/09/13 11:08 PM
Re: Copper fouling - to clean or not to clean	DarylS	08/09/13 01:21 AM
Re: Copper fouling - to clean or not to clean	Mike_Bailey	06/09/13 06:07 PM

Extra information

4 registered and 858 anonymous users are browsing this forum.

Moderator: CptCurl

Forum Permissions
      You cannot start new topics
      You cannot reply to topics
      HTML is disabled
      UBBCode is enabled

Rating:
Thread views: 9537

Jump to

NitroExpress.com

Powered by UBB.threads™ 6.5.5

Home | Ezine | Forums | Links | Contact

Copyright 2003 to 2011 - all rights reserved