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brass showing pressure signs at lower powder charges with subseqent firings
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<blockquote data-quote="jmden" data-source="post: 33323" data-attributes="member: 1742"><p>Brent, </p><p></p><p>Your mention of barrel fouling got me thinking. I spent 2 hours with Sweets the other day before it came out clear and not blue. I've always thought I cleaned well, but perhaps not? I've used Sweets every 20 rounds or so, after using Shooters Choice in my standard cleaning regimen which I got from Sinclairs book, but have never used the Sweets until it came out COMPLETELY clear. I visit Kesselrings Gun Shop regularly just south of here and one of the guys there told me this technique for Sweets: pour it down the barrel (using a cleaning bore guide of course) until it just begins to run out the barrel, turn the gun over so that the Sweets coats the other side of the barrel and then let it sit for 10 minutes or so. (I go ahead and turn the gun side to side and tilt the muzzle up and down in my cleaning station and watch from the muzzle end to make sure that I'm coating the whole barrel evenly.) Dry patch out and then continue the process until the Sweet comes out clear and not blue. Well...2 hours later, it came out clear. Apparently, I was not getting the copper out as well as I'd thought. Since I'd been shooting Swift A-frames almost exclusively (I believe they have a 100% copper jacket--not sure if this might cause more copper fouling than some of the other manufacturer's jacket alloys--comments?) I wonder if they might cause more copper fouling. If my bore was quite copper fouled...perhaps this might be the cause of what I've observed? Maybe it's not my brass? Or, maybe it's the throat issue as you mentioned?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jmden, post: 33323, member: 1742"] Brent, Your mention of barrel fouling got me thinking. I spent 2 hours with Sweets the other day before it came out clear and not blue. I've always thought I cleaned well, but perhaps not? I've used Sweets every 20 rounds or so, after using Shooters Choice in my standard cleaning regimen which I got from Sinclairs book, but have never used the Sweets until it came out COMPLETELY clear. I visit Kesselrings Gun Shop regularly just south of here and one of the guys there told me this technique for Sweets: pour it down the barrel (using a cleaning bore guide of course) until it just begins to run out the barrel, turn the gun over so that the Sweets coats the other side of the barrel and then let it sit for 10 minutes or so. (I go ahead and turn the gun side to side and tilt the muzzle up and down in my cleaning station and watch from the muzzle end to make sure that I'm coating the whole barrel evenly.) Dry patch out and then continue the process until the Sweet comes out clear and not blue. Well...2 hours later, it came out clear. Apparently, I was not getting the copper out as well as I'd thought. Since I'd been shooting Swift A-frames almost exclusively (I believe they have a 100% copper jacket--not sure if this might cause more copper fouling than some of the other manufacturer's jacket alloys--comments?) I wonder if they might cause more copper fouling. If my bore was quite copper fouled...perhaps this might be the cause of what I've observed? Maybe it's not my brass? Or, maybe it's the throat issue as you mentioned? [/QUOTE]
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