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Ladder testing at 1k- Detailed article and video
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<blockquote data-quote="Alan Griffith" data-source="post: 948712" data-attributes="member: 4686"><p>Joden,</p><p></p><p>I'm in the camp that doesn't clean a barrel except for a very few specific reasons. 1) Barrel break in. 2) The barrel is wet and needs to be cleaned and dried out. 3) Accuracy starts to fall off and could be attributed to copper fouling and/or maybe a carbon ring just past the throat. </p><p></p><p>I Dyna Bore Coat my barrels then break them in per the Krieger method on their web site. Personal decision but it has worked for me. I then don't touch my barrels unless numbers 2 or 3 occurs and it hasn't. I can get away with it because in our dry Utah air we don't worry about high humidity and barrel moisture. I've got two 6.5x47's (Krieger and Broughton barrels) that haven't been cleaned in close to 2000 rounds each and they still putting 5-shots into .25 to .3 moa.</p><p></p><p>Once a barrel has been cleaned it could take as little as 5 or as many as 50 rounds to get the barrel properly fouled and accuracy returns. The DBC really negates or may even totally eliminate copper fouling. I have a 4th reason to clean a barrel. I have a custom Pre 64 M70 in 9.3x62 using a Pacnor barrel. It's an absolute tac driver putting many 3-shot groups in around .15 to .25 moa. I've been casting and shooting lead bullets. Before one does that you've got to get all the copper fouling out before shooting lead. When I went to clean the barrel that had about 500 rounds down it, I got ZERO copper out using Barnes CR10. DBC really works!</p><p></p><p>Alan</p><p></p><p>Alan</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alan Griffith, post: 948712, member: 4686"] Joden, I'm in the camp that doesn't clean a barrel except for a very few specific reasons. 1) Barrel break in. 2) The barrel is wet and needs to be cleaned and dried out. 3) Accuracy starts to fall off and could be attributed to copper fouling and/or maybe a carbon ring just past the throat. I Dyna Bore Coat my barrels then break them in per the Krieger method on their web site. Personal decision but it has worked for me. I then don't touch my barrels unless numbers 2 or 3 occurs and it hasn't. I can get away with it because in our dry Utah air we don't worry about high humidity and barrel moisture. I've got two 6.5x47's (Krieger and Broughton barrels) that haven't been cleaned in close to 2000 rounds each and they still putting 5-shots into .25 to .3 moa. Once a barrel has been cleaned it could take as little as 5 or as many as 50 rounds to get the barrel properly fouled and accuracy returns. The DBC really negates or may even totally eliminate copper fouling. I have a 4th reason to clean a barrel. I have a custom Pre 64 M70 in 9.3x62 using a Pacnor barrel. It's an absolute tac driver putting many 3-shot groups in around .15 to .25 moa. I've been casting and shooting lead bullets. Before one does that you've got to get all the copper fouling out before shooting lead. When I went to clean the barrel that had about 500 rounds down it, I got ZERO copper out using Barnes CR10. DBC really works! Alan Alan [/QUOTE]
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