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How often do you clean your barrel?
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<blockquote data-quote="Bullet bumper" data-source="post: 925751" data-attributes="member: 17844"><p>The discussion was about how often you clean not so much about barrel break in.</p><p>How much good you get out of doing a break in process depends on how smooth the barrel is inside to start with. </p><p>As most shooters don't know for sure how smooth the barrel is it can't hurt to do a barrel break-in . </p><p>It is not good to leave a barrel dirty as in badly fouled . Dirty dry barrels left for long periods will rust and pit quicker not to mention accuracy may suffer .</p><p>There is a World of difference between what you do while shooting and using a gun to what you should do after the shooting is finished and the gun is put away.</p><p>Bores can be ruined during storage and no use if not cared for properly. </p><p>If you are not using any coatings on your bullets then you will be cleaning as and when accuracy starts to go off . Now that is different for different people some might see a group blow out to .4 and think it needs cleaning and others may be happy to get a 1 inch group and don't see a need to clean until it's a 3 inch group they can't ignore anymore . </p><p>Most BR shooters clean more often , most hunters clean far less and or when it's convenient . </p><p>If you run MoS2 moly coated bullets , coated properly , you can clean even less often than the above . However you still lubricate the bore well before you put it away and if storage is long , say end of season then do a thorough solvent clean to get out as much moly as possible and then light oil and loose patch out then grease the bore well with loose patch's so a good layer of grease stays inside the chamber and bore but the light oil under penertrates into the moly layer excluding oxygen before the grease goes on .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bullet bumper, post: 925751, member: 17844"] The discussion was about how often you clean not so much about barrel break in. How much good you get out of doing a break in process depends on how smooth the barrel is inside to start with. As most shooters don't know for sure how smooth the barrel is it can't hurt to do a barrel break-in . It is not good to leave a barrel dirty as in badly fouled . Dirty dry barrels left for long periods will rust and pit quicker not to mention accuracy may suffer . There is a World of difference between what you do while shooting and using a gun to what you should do after the shooting is finished and the gun is put away. Bores can be ruined during storage and no use if not cared for properly. If you are not using any coatings on your bullets then you will be cleaning as and when accuracy starts to go off . Now that is different for different people some might see a group blow out to .4 and think it needs cleaning and others may be happy to get a 1 inch group and don't see a need to clean until it's a 3 inch group they can't ignore anymore . Most BR shooters clean more often , most hunters clean far less and or when it's convenient . If you run MoS2 moly coated bullets , coated properly , you can clean even less often than the above . However you still lubricate the bore well before you put it away and if storage is long , say end of season then do a thorough solvent clean to get out as much moly as possible and then light oil and loose patch out then grease the bore well with loose patch's so a good layer of grease stays inside the chamber and bore but the light oil under penertrates into the moly layer excluding oxygen before the grease goes on . [/QUOTE]
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