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<blockquote data-quote="emp1953" data-source="post: 2773086" data-attributes="member: 71817"><p>Borescope was both my worse and my best investment. My Rem700 in 30-06 from 1969 has shot a 200yd group that a half dollar will cover since the day I started reloading. I looked down the barrel with the borescope and was depressed. Ugly describes the copper and carbon but the rifle continued to produce great groups. I ran a bunch of patches on brushes down it using Butch's. Looked at it again and still the fowling was there but the rifle shoots great, I regularly cleaned it at the end of every hunting season anyway being ignorant of the copper, until the borescope. If accuracy starts to go south then I will work again on the copper fouling. Two years ago got a buck at 394yds, a bang flop. I have a .270win Sig970shr that I also clean at the end of every season. When accuracy falters with that I will focus on copper fouling. With me, accuracy is my gauge. If accuracy falters then I start looking for causes. Regardless, my rifles are clean when I put them in the safe, I only focus on copper when the rifle tells me too. A word of advice, if using the patch on a brush method, do not use metal brushes. Most have copper in the metal and you will get a green patch for years and years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="emp1953, post: 2773086, member: 71817"] Borescope was both my worse and my best investment. My Rem700 in 30-06 from 1969 has shot a 200yd group that a half dollar will cover since the day I started reloading. I looked down the barrel with the borescope and was depressed. Ugly describes the copper and carbon but the rifle continued to produce great groups. I ran a bunch of patches on brushes down it using Butch's. Looked at it again and still the fowling was there but the rifle shoots great, I regularly cleaned it at the end of every hunting season anyway being ignorant of the copper, until the borescope. If accuracy starts to go south then I will work again on the copper fouling. Two years ago got a buck at 394yds, a bang flop. I have a .270win Sig970shr that I also clean at the end of every season. When accuracy falters with that I will focus on copper fouling. With me, accuracy is my gauge. If accuracy falters then I start looking for causes. Regardless, my rifles are clean when I put them in the safe, I only focus on copper when the rifle tells me too. A word of advice, if using the patch on a brush method, do not use metal brushes. Most have copper in the metal and you will get a green patch for years and years. [/QUOTE]
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