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Indy
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Re: How I clean Barrels
26/07/09 12:13 AM

I do a lot of match shooting--200, 300, and 600 yards--.223, 6XC, .308, and one 30-06.

As far as I'm concerned and have noticed, most cleaning "rituals" are a waste of time.

I never break in barrels, just shoot and clean when I get home. I clean with two patches of Butch's Bore Shine (there are about 20 or so concoctions probably equally as good), followed by one dry patch and one patch of Hoppe's #9 to protect the bore. I wait about five minutes between patches.

I never use a bronze brush but let the chemical action work. Exception: After several hundred shots, I use JB Bore paste on a bronze brush. Amazing what gunk comes out of a "clean" barrel.

Another old wives tale is the "need" to dry out the bore before shooting. Our 600 yard matches have 5 sighter shots preceeeding the record shots. On several occasions I have fired all five in the X ring, noticing no change of impact in the first shot with the Hoppe's in the barrel. (The first record shot is often a 9 but that's another story!)

If I see a bit of copper in the bore, so what?

Now for big bores, I generally use the same procedure. In Africa I do not clean the bore for the whole trip, but only when I get home. Sometimes I use one of the foams. It's less messy than trying to get it in the barrel of a small bore.

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How I clean Barrels	Homer	05/06/09 08:57 AM
Re: How I clean Barrels	Homer	05/06/09 09:37 AM
Re: How I clean Barrels	Homer	05/06/09 09:44 AM
Re: How I clean Barrels	500Nitro	05/06/09 09:46 AM
Re: How I clean Barrels	Homer	05/06/09 09:57 AM
Re: How I clean Barrels	Homer	05/06/09 10:07 AM
Re: How I clean Barrels	Homer	05/06/09 10:17 AM
Re: How I clean Barrels	Homer	05/06/09 10:37 AM
Re: How I clean Barrels	Homer	05/06/09 10:59 AM
Re: How I clean Barrels	JabaliHunter	05/06/09 06:48 PM
Re: How I clean Barrels	DarylS	06/06/09 12:30 AM
Re: How I clean Barrels	Bramble	06/06/09 11:24 AM
Re: How I clean Barrels	kamilaroi	06/06/09 01:02 PM
Re: How I clean Barrels	DarylS	06/06/09 11:35 PM
Re: How I clean Barrels	Ripp	07/06/09 12:28 AM
Re: How I clean Barrels	DarylS	08/06/09 12:07 AM
Re: How I clean Barrels	Ripp	08/06/09 02:58 AM
Re: How I clean Barrels	bwananelson	08/06/09 04:11 AM
Re: How I clean Barrels	Homer	10/06/09 10:37 AM
Re: How I clean Barrels	RHB	03/07/09 03:17 AM
Re: How I clean Barrels	Paul	03/07/09 08:05 PM
Re: How I clean Barrels	DarylS	03/07/09 09:54 PM
Re: How I clean Barrels	Tatume	03/07/09 11:49 PM
Re: How I clean Barrels	010166	04/07/09 03:20 AM
Re: How I clean Barrels	CptCurl	04/07/09 08:55 PM
Re: How I clean Barrels	Paul	04/07/09 10:39 PM
Re: How I clean Barrels	DarylS	04/07/09 11:35 PM
Re: How I clean Barrels	Homer	05/07/09 05:00 PM
Re: How I clean Barrels	Tatume	04/07/09 09:22 PM
Re: How I clean Barrels	CptCurl	05/07/09 09:22 PM
Re: How I clean Barrels	Indy	26/07/09 12:13 AM

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