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Copper Fowling with solid copper bullets
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<blockquote data-quote="rooster721" data-source="post: 996295" data-attributes="member: 40654"><p>I shoot (alot) of Barnes through my barrel, barrel is a Krieger, and as a matter of fact I keep a shot-log on my rifle.. long story short, current Barnes (LRX specifically, in my case) do not foul worse than jacketed bullets</p><p></p><p>I've shot a fair amount of Berger and Matrix both through this same barrel, and it's a noted fact that I've cleaned more copper out of my barrel after shooting them than I have putting the same (and even higher) round counts of Barnes through... could just be the barrel, I don't know, but in mine the Jacketed bullets are depositing more, an obvious amount more**</p><p></p><p>My cleaning regime goes: wet-patch dry-patch of mercury quicksilver (2 patches of, normally) removes majority of the powder/carbon... then ( 1 ) wet-patch dry-patch brakecleaner to degrease (mercury a bit oily) ...then accelerator + wipeout and leave for an hour. Hour up, dry patch 3-4 patches to remove wipeout (copper goes with it) THEN check bore for signs of copper... 9 times out of ten it's perfect. IF any streaks still are left, of copper, I'll repeat the wipe-out step and 10/10 times it get's what's left. </p><p></p><p>I've found the only time there is a need for the 2nd step with wipe-out is when, say a guy shoots solids for "x" number of rounds, then switches to Jacketed bullets for "x" number of more rounds, OR if switching powder types without cleaning in-between... some reason there seems to be a layer-effect when a guy switches and doesn't clean first* ( ? ) ...All this is my-own observations in my rifles, so take with salt (lol) but for me it's good as gospel. Wouldn't change a thing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rooster721, post: 996295, member: 40654"] I shoot (alot) of Barnes through my barrel, barrel is a Krieger, and as a matter of fact I keep a shot-log on my rifle.. long story short, current Barnes (LRX specifically, in my case) do not foul worse than jacketed bullets I've shot a fair amount of Berger and Matrix both through this same barrel, and it's a noted fact that I've cleaned more copper out of my barrel after shooting them than I have putting the same (and even higher) round counts of Barnes through... could just be the barrel, I don't know, but in mine the Jacketed bullets are depositing more, an obvious amount more** My cleaning regime goes: wet-patch dry-patch of mercury quicksilver (2 patches of, normally) removes majority of the powder/carbon... then ( 1 ) wet-patch dry-patch brakecleaner to degrease (mercury a bit oily) ...then accelerator + wipeout and leave for an hour. Hour up, dry patch 3-4 patches to remove wipeout (copper goes with it) THEN check bore for signs of copper... 9 times out of ten it's perfect. IF any streaks still are left, of copper, I'll repeat the wipe-out step and 10/10 times it get's what's left. I've found the only time there is a need for the 2nd step with wipe-out is when, say a guy shoots solids for "x" number of rounds, then switches to Jacketed bullets for "x" number of more rounds, OR if switching powder types without cleaning in-between... some reason there seems to be a layer-effect when a guy switches and doesn't clean first* ( ? ) ...All this is my-own observations in my rifles, so take with salt (lol) but for me it's good as gospel. Wouldn't change a thing. [/QUOTE]
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