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Occasional cleaning incompatible with precision reloading?
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<blockquote data-quote="Gamesniper19" data-source="post: 2201749" data-attributes="member: 95013"><p>If it were any other barrel manufacturer, I would say there may be build issues, barrel steel quality issues, or some other manufacturing or quality control issue that was affecting the need to clean. Not with Bartlein</p><p>I agree with MM around custom barrel quality, and as such generally needing less cleaning.</p><p></p><p>Nearly every barrel that we tracked through manufacturing and control (including those used in military testing) the amount of cleaning was always individually barrel subjective. The only time we saw nearly exact cleaning and wear performance was with barrels in the same lot using the same steel, cutter, final build manufacturing controls, same caliber and like accuracy load cocktails. We have no data supporting barrels being easier to clean than another across an entire lifecycle. Too many factors including:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Barrel steel and cutter quality, to your point has it been lapped. Button rifle barrels should be lapped (they are from custom but not from off the shelf barrels). Lapping is as much art as it is science and a bad lapping job can actually be more detrimental to a barrel than not lapping at all. Cut rifle barrels do not require lapping if they are made correctly - Bartlein cut rifles</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Type of powder, bullet, primer used</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Type of cleaning solution and cleaning gear used - this can be a big factor</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Break in - Bartlein recommends a break in process on their site</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Cleaning prowess. Yes, there is technique to cleaning correctly and completely and a barrel will tell you if you are treating it correctly</li> </ul><p>Every barrel is different. I run all custom cut rifle barrels that i know have been made correctly and have tolerances within a 10 thousandth. I have some barrels that clean up more quickly than others. They just do. For those that take more work, I continue to clean until they show clean. Running a few more solvent or cleaning patches through a barrel wont hurt it. No matter how easy or hard they are to clean, if they shoot with accuracy you want, keep shooting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gamesniper19, post: 2201749, member: 95013"] If it were any other barrel manufacturer, I would say there may be build issues, barrel steel quality issues, or some other manufacturing or quality control issue that was affecting the need to clean. Not with Bartlein I agree with MM around custom barrel quality, and as such generally needing less cleaning. Nearly every barrel that we tracked through manufacturing and control (including those used in military testing) the amount of cleaning was always individually barrel subjective. The only time we saw nearly exact cleaning and wear performance was with barrels in the same lot using the same steel, cutter, final build manufacturing controls, same caliber and like accuracy load cocktails. We have no data supporting barrels being easier to clean than another across an entire lifecycle. Too many factors including: [LIST] [*]Barrel steel and cutter quality, to your point has it been lapped. Button rifle barrels should be lapped (they are from custom but not from off the shelf barrels). Lapping is as much art as it is science and a bad lapping job can actually be more detrimental to a barrel than not lapping at all. Cut rifle barrels do not require lapping if they are made correctly - Bartlein cut rifles [*]Type of powder, bullet, primer used [*]Type of cleaning solution and cleaning gear used - this can be a big factor [*]Break in - Bartlein recommends a break in process on their site [*]Cleaning prowess. Yes, there is technique to cleaning correctly and completely and a barrel will tell you if you are treating it correctly [/LIST] Every barrel is different. I run all custom cut rifle barrels that i know have been made correctly and have tolerances within a 10 thousandth. I have some barrels that clean up more quickly than others. They just do. For those that take more work, I continue to clean until they show clean. Running a few more solvent or cleaning patches through a barrel wont hurt it. No matter how easy or hard they are to clean, if they shoot with accuracy you want, keep shooting. [/QUOTE]
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