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To clean your gun or not to clean your gun-thats my question
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<blockquote data-quote="MontanaRifleman" data-source="post: 1626079" data-attributes="member: 11717"><p>As has been said many times already, every barrel is unique. I learn what my barrels need and clean accordingly. If a barrel looses accuracy around 50 rounds, I will clean at about 40 - 45 rounds. If you wait until you actually notice accuracy dropping off, that is wasted powder, bullets, brass, barrel life and time down the tube, so to speak. If you are cleaning every 10-20 rounds when your barrel only needs to be cleaned every 40-50 rounds or more, you are also wasting powder, bullets, brass and barrel life be almost every barrel needs fouling shots to return it to consistent accuracy. </p><p></p><p>I try to do all my cleaning at the range. If my next outing with a rifle is a hunt and it is coming up for a needed cleaning, I do it at the range after sighting-in, checking drops, etc. After cleaning, I shoot the required number shots to foul, then it gets left alone until after hunting season. If the next outing is to the range, I also clean and foul at the range when needed. Then my next time range I have the perfect chance to check the most important shot there is for a hunting rifle, the cold bore shot.</p><p></p><p>I clean my action, trigger and bolt after every bore cleaning and as necessary beyond that. I don't oil jack anything. Oil attracts dirt and dirt is bad juju and attracts moisture which is double bad juju. I saturate the trigger and bolt/firing pin assembly with powder solvent, let soak, then flush with brake cleaner. </p><p></p><p>If you are using a bronze or brass brush to clean your rifle and you detect no copper fouling, you need a different bore solvent. A good copper solvent will eat your bronze/brass brush and leave heavy blue color on your patches when there is no copper in your bore. Been there, done that. I stroke a nylon brush a few times for the first pass to work the solvent in, not to do any mechanical cleaning. The solvent does all the cleaning. Wet and dry patches after that until clean.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MontanaRifleman, post: 1626079, member: 11717"] As has been said many times already, every barrel is unique. I learn what my barrels need and clean accordingly. If a barrel looses accuracy around 50 rounds, I will clean at about 40 - 45 rounds. If you wait until you actually notice accuracy dropping off, that is wasted powder, bullets, brass, barrel life and time down the tube, so to speak. If you are cleaning every 10-20 rounds when your barrel only needs to be cleaned every 40-50 rounds or more, you are also wasting powder, bullets, brass and barrel life be almost every barrel needs fouling shots to return it to consistent accuracy. I try to do all my cleaning at the range. If my next outing with a rifle is a hunt and it is coming up for a needed cleaning, I do it at the range after sighting-in, checking drops, etc. After cleaning, I shoot the required number shots to foul, then it gets left alone until after hunting season. If the next outing is to the range, I also clean and foul at the range when needed. Then my next time range I have the perfect chance to check the most important shot there is for a hunting rifle, the cold bore shot. I clean my action, trigger and bolt after every bore cleaning and as necessary beyond that. I don't oil jack anything. Oil attracts dirt and dirt is bad juju and attracts moisture which is double bad juju. I saturate the trigger and bolt/firing pin assembly with powder solvent, let soak, then flush with brake cleaner. If you are using a bronze or brass brush to clean your rifle and you detect no copper fouling, you need a different bore solvent. A good copper solvent will eat your bronze/brass brush and leave heavy blue color on your patches when there is no copper in your bore. Been there, done that. I stroke a nylon brush a few times for the first pass to work the solvent in, not to do any mechanical cleaning. The solvent does all the cleaning. Wet and dry patches after that until clean. [/QUOTE]
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