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<blockquote data-quote="Old Rooster" data-source="post: 1687974" data-attributes="member: 108576"><p>A local gunsmith put on a seminar a few years back about gun cleaning and offered for folks to bring a rifle or two and learn how a gunsmith that used to compete cleans his rifles.He said something someone already said here that some people ruin a bore more often than wear the barrel out by cleaning improperly.</p><p>He took a Hawkeye borescope and looked at different rifles bores and what he found with a guy that said his rifle was cleaned and ready for a new session at the range but the Hawkeye said differently.Carbon was killing his accuracy and he was a good student and took his rifle back home and really cleaned it and next evening it was inspected and was good to go.Mine was worse.He said you used a slotted patch holder and it has caused marks on your chamber.Not deep but marks none the less.He suggested for me to let him polish the marks out and I did and the carbon I had was not as bad as some but bad enough to cause a barrel to not shoot to it's potential.</p><p>When you force something down the barrel it causes carbon to build up enough that it can be next to impossible to remove so I make sure I clean after every range session no matter how long or how many rounds I fire.</p><p>I used to shoot way more than I do now.Several rifles different calibers lined up for a range session but health problems has stopped that.</p><p>Now I clean every time I shoot not just to remove copper but that hard to clean carbon.</p><p>Just my 2 cents</p><p>Old Rooster</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Old Rooster, post: 1687974, member: 108576"] A local gunsmith put on a seminar a few years back about gun cleaning and offered for folks to bring a rifle or two and learn how a gunsmith that used to compete cleans his rifles.He said something someone already said here that some people ruin a bore more often than wear the barrel out by cleaning improperly. He took a Hawkeye borescope and looked at different rifles bores and what he found with a guy that said his rifle was cleaned and ready for a new session at the range but the Hawkeye said differently.Carbon was killing his accuracy and he was a good student and took his rifle back home and really cleaned it and next evening it was inspected and was good to go.Mine was worse.He said you used a slotted patch holder and it has caused marks on your chamber.Not deep but marks none the less.He suggested for me to let him polish the marks out and I did and the carbon I had was not as bad as some but bad enough to cause a barrel to not shoot to it's potential. When you force something down the barrel it causes carbon to build up enough that it can be next to impossible to remove so I make sure I clean after every range session no matter how long or how many rounds I fire. I used to shoot way more than I do now.Several rifles different calibers lined up for a range session but health problems has stopped that. Now I clean every time I shoot not just to remove copper but that hard to clean carbon. Just my 2 cents Old Rooster [/QUOTE]
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