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<blockquote data-quote="justgoto" data-source="post: 291491" data-attributes="member: 17125"><p>I had been making a series of cold bore shots over a week and the time before the last I noticed that my barrel was getting very ugly looking.</p><p></p><p>The rifle I am talking about is my Eddystone U.S. Model of 1917.</p><p></p><p>When I would shoot it before I would shoot maybe 3 to 10 shots then clean it until the barrel looked like a mirror. I very rarely shot a whole box of cartridges at one time. Then I would clean it until there was not a speck of dirt in it.</p><p>I am sure there was some copper in there, but I would at least get it to look like a mirror.</p><p></p><p>Then I started about a week ago with one cold bore shot a day, cleaning it just after each shot. I cleaned it just as I always did, to a mirror finish without a visible speck of dirt. But the time before last I was cleaning it as usual, and noticed it was not getting clean, it was actually getting worse looking the more I cleaned it.</p><p></p><p>So when I finally got it so no more dirt came out, the barrel was ugly looking; I mean I have never seen a barrel like it before. Here are some pictures that I took a few hours ago.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v39/justgoto/shooting/badBarrel.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v39/justgoto/shooting/badBarrel2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>It looks pitted in some spots and melted in others. 4 days ago it was a mirror! This is my 30-30 barrel.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v39/justgoto/shooting/barrelGood.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>There is a little bit of copper in there but that is about what the 30-06 barrel looked like just 4 days ago.</p><p></p><p>The only thing I have done different is using a graphite arrow as a rod to clean it since my wooden dowel of 30 years broke. I have used the graphite arrow on both 30 cals about evenly. I have been using the same bullets, powder and primers in both rifles.</p><p></p><p>Surprisingly, the accuracy seems the same, I was hitting just as good, (actually better,) and the barrel looked just like the pictures.</p><p></p><p>What is going on with that barrel?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="justgoto, post: 291491, member: 17125"] I had been making a series of cold bore shots over a week and the time before the last I noticed that my barrel was getting very ugly looking. The rifle I am talking about is my Eddystone U.S. Model of 1917. When I would shoot it before I would shoot maybe 3 to 10 shots then clean it until the barrel looked like a mirror. I very rarely shot a whole box of cartridges at one time. Then I would clean it until there was not a speck of dirt in it. I am sure there was some copper in there, but I would at least get it to look like a mirror. Then I started about a week ago with one cold bore shot a day, cleaning it just after each shot. I cleaned it just as I always did, to a mirror finish without a visible speck of dirt. But the time before last I was cleaning it as usual, and noticed it was not getting clean, it was actually getting worse looking the more I cleaned it. So when I finally got it so no more dirt came out, the barrel was ugly looking; I mean I have never seen a barrel like it before. Here are some pictures that I took a few hours ago. [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v39/justgoto/shooting/badBarrel.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v39/justgoto/shooting/badBarrel2.jpg[/IMG] It looks pitted in some spots and melted in others. 4 days ago it was a mirror! This is my 30-30 barrel. [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v39/justgoto/shooting/barrelGood.jpg[/IMG] There is a little bit of copper in there but that is about what the 30-06 barrel looked like just 4 days ago. The only thing I have done different is using a graphite arrow as a rod to clean it since my wooden dowel of 30 years broke. I have used the graphite arrow on both 30 cals about evenly. I have been using the same bullets, powder and primers in both rifles. Surprisingly, the accuracy seems the same, I was hitting just as good, (actually better,) and the barrel looked just like the pictures. What is going on with that barrel? [/QUOTE]
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