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To clean your gun or not to clean your gun-thats my question
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<blockquote data-quote="MagnumManiac" data-source="post: 1646984" data-attributes="member: 10755"><p>There's 'clean' and there's clean.</p><p>In my 2 switch barrel long actions which run several barrels, I let the barrel tell me when it's time to remove carbon AND copper.</p><p>Prior to this, a CARBON clean is done after every third match, or thereabouts.</p><p>My short action switch barrel gets the CARBON treatment after every weekend match.</p><p>It may get copper removed once a year, as it takes dozens of shots to settle back in to match readiness.</p><p>I also only clean barrels squeaky clean when I want to look through the Hawkeye to determine throat erosion and haze cracking and whether a setback and re-chamber is needed.</p><p>Funny thing, an acquaintance from the rifle range asked if I could horoscope his Ruger M77MKII in 300WM.........it was so dirty that you couldn't determine if it actually had ANY rifling at all. I declined cleaning it and asked him how well/badly did it shoot and he said next match he would bring it and we could shoot it at 100mtr. I was gobsmacked when it printed 3 shots in a clover leaf, to which he said "I ain't never cleaned this rifle, too scared it will ruin it's accuracy!". He only ever shot factory Winnie 180gr Accubonds in that rifle.........amazing!</p><p></p><p>Cheers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MagnumManiac, post: 1646984, member: 10755"] There's 'clean' and there's clean. In my 2 switch barrel long actions which run several barrels, I let the barrel tell me when it's time to remove carbon AND copper. Prior to this, a CARBON clean is done after every third match, or thereabouts. My short action switch barrel gets the CARBON treatment after every weekend match. It may get copper removed once a year, as it takes dozens of shots to settle back in to match readiness. I also only clean barrels squeaky clean when I want to look through the Hawkeye to determine throat erosion and haze cracking and whether a setback and re-chamber is needed. Funny thing, an acquaintance from the rifle range asked if I could horoscope his Ruger M77MKII in 300WM.........it was so dirty that you couldn't determine if it actually had ANY rifling at all. I declined cleaning it and asked him how well/badly did it shoot and he said next match he would bring it and we could shoot it at 100mtr. I was gobsmacked when it printed 3 shots in a clover leaf, to which he said "I ain't never cleaned this rifle, too scared it will ruin it's accuracy!". He only ever shot factory Winnie 180gr Accubonds in that rifle.........amazing! Cheers. [/QUOTE]
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