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How often do you clean your hunting rifle
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<blockquote data-quote="emp1953" data-source="post: 2880972" data-attributes="member: 71817"><p>In Virginia Beach, I shark fished with a fellow that told me a thing or two about shooting and cleaning. He said that I need to choose what I want the rifle to do, Kill game or punch paper. I told him I was a hunter and I couldn't eat paper. He told me to have 50 rounds ready. Clean the rifle really well. Not make it copper free. Take the rifle and ONE round to the range, set up at 100 yds, and make the best shot I possibly could. Do not mess with scope zero. Save the target and put notes on it, weather conditions, etc. Sometime within the next week go out again with ONE round and at 100 yds make the best shot I could etc etc etc. After 10 outings like this, I will prove whether or not my rifle likes a clean bore. If all your targets have the bullet hole within an inch of each other laying the targets on top of one another then it likes a clean bore. If these 10 shots shoot otherwise then don't clean the rifle after shot #10, Repeat your process but now run a single dry brush and a dry patch through the bore after each shot. ONE only per day. Notes on the targets again, Do not mess with the scope. Overlay the targets and see how the holes line up etc etc. I found that all my rifles liked being fouled and since the first shot is what counted for me I didn't care about what a 5 shot group would do. I never cleaned down to bare metal and did use a borescope to check for carbon. The dreaded Carbon ring is bad.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="emp1953, post: 2880972, member: 71817"] In Virginia Beach, I shark fished with a fellow that told me a thing or two about shooting and cleaning. He said that I need to choose what I want the rifle to do, Kill game or punch paper. I told him I was a hunter and I couldn't eat paper. He told me to have 50 rounds ready. Clean the rifle really well. Not make it copper free. Take the rifle and ONE round to the range, set up at 100 yds, and make the best shot I possibly could. Do not mess with scope zero. Save the target and put notes on it, weather conditions, etc. Sometime within the next week go out again with ONE round and at 100 yds make the best shot I could etc etc etc. After 10 outings like this, I will prove whether or not my rifle likes a clean bore. If all your targets have the bullet hole within an inch of each other laying the targets on top of one another then it likes a clean bore. If these 10 shots shoot otherwise then don't clean the rifle after shot #10, Repeat your process but now run a single dry brush and a dry patch through the bore after each shot. ONE only per day. Notes on the targets again, Do not mess with the scope. Overlay the targets and see how the holes line up etc etc. I found that all my rifles liked being fouled and since the first shot is what counted for me I didn't care about what a 5 shot group would do. I never cleaned down to bare metal and did use a borescope to check for carbon. The dreaded Carbon ring is bad. [/QUOTE]
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