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How dirty should a new rifle barrel be?
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<blockquote data-quote="DartonJager" data-source="post: 2611928" data-attributes="member: 95733"><p>Well have an update.</p><p>As I said, soaked my new CVA Cascade in 450BM for another 8 hours and then pushed four dry patches through it. Forth one while pretty clean, was still a little to dirty for my liking and I didn't want to use any more patches so I again saturated the barrel with Accelerator, filled the barrel with W-O foam plugged both ends and let soak while I charged the cases and seated the bullets in my first 35 450BM reloads which took about two hours.</p><p>Then I pushed six more dry patches through it.</p><p></p><p>Only the patch I used to plug the muzzle end had any blue on it and it was only the most extreme slightest of traces best described as three 1/4" long slivers of blue not even visible in the picture they are so small. The blue on the same patch in the top right hand corner is an instance of cross contamination from it sitting on the patch to the left of it from the 8/HR soak. The remaining five patches had very little carbon fouling to begin with and patches 5-6 had progressively less carbon fouling only and the sixth and final patch came out over 90% clean and I had not yet cleaned the receiver yet. After cleaning the receiver I pushed a last dry patch down the bore and it came out 95%+ clean . So I called it good.</p><p></p><p>This is why I absolutely LOVE Sharp Shoot-R bore cleaning products. W-O works awesome for me because I am almost never in a hurry to clean my rifles. Tremendous improvement in the cleanliness of my bore and I did no scrubbing of the bore at all. Used less than 15 patches making W-O very cost effective. Only draw back is it is admittedly slow as it took almost 12 hours of soaking to get my barrel clean, but to be fare it would have been considerably faster if I would have been more aggressive in my cleaning, but I had absolutely no reason or need to be in a hurry so I just let the combination of Accelerator and W-O do its job.</p><p></p><p>I will admit though I do use Boretech C4 Carbon cleaner on my rifle barrels when I do a deep cleaning of a heavily fouled barrel especially on my AR's after a high round count range session. I just kinda forgot to use it this time, but based on my results I don't think it was needed.</p><p>Included a picture of my last few patches to show the difference from first cleaning to last.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DartonJager, post: 2611928, member: 95733"] Well have an update. As I said, soaked my new CVA Cascade in 450BM for another 8 hours and then pushed four dry patches through it. Forth one while pretty clean, was still a little to dirty for my liking and I didn't want to use any more patches so I again saturated the barrel with Accelerator, filled the barrel with W-O foam plugged both ends and let soak while I charged the cases and seated the bullets in my first 35 450BM reloads which took about two hours. Then I pushed six more dry patches through it. Only the patch I used to plug the muzzle end had any blue on it and it was only the most extreme slightest of traces best described as three 1/4" long slivers of blue not even visible in the picture they are so small. The blue on the same patch in the top right hand corner is an instance of cross contamination from it sitting on the patch to the left of it from the 8/HR soak. The remaining five patches had very little carbon fouling to begin with and patches 5-6 had progressively less carbon fouling only and the sixth and final patch came out over 90% clean and I had not yet cleaned the receiver yet. After cleaning the receiver I pushed a last dry patch down the bore and it came out 95%+ clean . So I called it good. This is why I absolutely LOVE Sharp Shoot-R bore cleaning products. W-O works awesome for me because I am almost never in a hurry to clean my rifles. Tremendous improvement in the cleanliness of my bore and I did no scrubbing of the bore at all. Used less than 15 patches making W-O very cost effective. Only draw back is it is admittedly slow as it took almost 12 hours of soaking to get my barrel clean, but to be fare it would have been considerably faster if I would have been more aggressive in my cleaning, but I had absolutely no reason or need to be in a hurry so I just let the combination of Accelerator and W-O do its job. I will admit though I do use Boretech C4 Carbon cleaner on my rifle barrels when I do a deep cleaning of a heavily fouled barrel especially on my AR's after a high round count range session. I just kinda forgot to use it this time, but based on my results I don't think it was needed. Included a picture of my last few patches to show the difference from first cleaning to last. [/QUOTE]
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