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Barrel cleaning and settling down...
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<blockquote data-quote="RWE" data-source="post: 1867850" data-attributes="member: 20736"><p>Funny, I am on both sides (or maybe it is the middle?) of this - have a factory skinny barrel 30-06 hunting rifle that was always a 0.75 MOA rifle with factory ammo. I didn't bother reloading for it years ago and pre-season zero confirmation was boringly repeatable. I would "clean" it with the Hoppe's kit after every outing and called it good. Eventually the regiment degraded to shoot, run a oily bore snake, wipe down routine because my .308 is 0.5 MOA or better and I never clean it (actually it is 1.5/2 MOA rifle when clean).</p><p></p><p>Past couple years I thought the '06 barrel was dying, it was becoming (and did become) a 3 MOA rifle despite my "cleaning/fouling", etc... Thought I was cleaning well but I clearly wasn't, I tried some KG2 (like JB Paste and oil) on the recommendation of a friend, used as directed, '06 is back to sub MOA!!</p><p></p><p>.308 gets oily patch/dry patch on a rag for now. 6.5 regime is TBD.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RWE, post: 1867850, member: 20736"] Funny, I am on both sides (or maybe it is the middle?) of this - have a factory skinny barrel 30-06 hunting rifle that was always a 0.75 MOA rifle with factory ammo. I didn't bother reloading for it years ago and pre-season zero confirmation was boringly repeatable. I would "clean" it with the Hoppe's kit after every outing and called it good. Eventually the regiment degraded to shoot, run a oily bore snake, wipe down routine because my .308 is 0.5 MOA or better and I never clean it (actually it is 1.5/2 MOA rifle when clean). Past couple years I thought the '06 barrel was dying, it was becoming (and did become) a 3 MOA rifle despite my "cleaning/fouling", etc... Thought I was cleaning well but I clearly wasn't, I tried some KG2 (like JB Paste and oil) on the recommendation of a friend, used as directed, '06 is back to sub MOA!! .308 gets oily patch/dry patch on a rag for now. 6.5 regime is TBD. [/QUOTE]
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