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Cooper and carbon fouling.
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<blockquote data-quote="BallisticsGuy" data-source="post: 2398116" data-attributes="member: 96226"><p>That's entirely normal. You'll eventually see gator skin further down the tube. It spreads. Big fire, small hole. I tend to go 400 rounds or more between cleanings that involve a copper solvent. I'll knock the carbon out with just a quick carbon solvent patch if I want to look down the barrel with a scope but that's about it. Some of my match rifles only got cleaned twice in their nearly 2000 round lifetimes and that's stuff like 6mm's doing 3100-3200fps so they're super overbore too. People got used to cleaning barrels because originally black powder and then corrosive primers would cause severe rust quickly if barrels were not cleaned out pretty soon after shooting was done. Then after black powder and corrosive primers stopped being remotely common people just never stopped the habit. It started out necesssary, then became lore, then virtue signaling and now people are starting to wake up to the fact that there's a time to clean and a time to shoot but they're not sequential steps.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BallisticsGuy, post: 2398116, member: 96226"] That's entirely normal. You'll eventually see gator skin further down the tube. It spreads. Big fire, small hole. I tend to go 400 rounds or more between cleanings that involve a copper solvent. I'll knock the carbon out with just a quick carbon solvent patch if I want to look down the barrel with a scope but that's about it. Some of my match rifles only got cleaned twice in their nearly 2000 round lifetimes and that's stuff like 6mm's doing 3100-3200fps so they're super overbore too. People got used to cleaning barrels because originally black powder and then corrosive primers would cause severe rust quickly if barrels were not cleaned out pretty soon after shooting was done. Then after black powder and corrosive primers stopped being remotely common people just never stopped the habit. It started out necesssary, then became lore, then virtue signaling and now people are starting to wake up to the fact that there's a time to clean and a time to shoot but they're not sequential steps. [/QUOTE]
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