Barrel Cleaning

[Mike TackleBerry]

Good video.

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[jackieschmidt]

“Couple hundred rounds since it’s last cleaning”
That explains a lot.

 

[jelenko]

Is he using lapping compound?

 

[Straightshooter1]

. . . or one can just use a few rounds of Tubb's fire lapping bullets to keep things smooth.

 

[Fast14riot]

I guess 300NM is a barrel burner! My barrels don't look like that until close to 900 rounds.

I still prefer Thoroclean for speed and efficiency of cleaning.

 

[RustyInBend]

I struggle a bit with the suggestion that using abrasive bore paste ... a lot of it ... on every cleaning, is a good idea. I leave that for my "once a year" mega-cleaning, and still use less than this video suggests. But ... to each his own. Everyone rolls a little differently.

 

[ShtrRdy]

I thought that too smooth a bore would cause it to foul faster.

 

[K22]

Another in a series of Internet never-ending stories - cleaning a rifle - the search for the "holy grail" of the perfect cleaning procedure.

Here's a secret, mystery unveiled - the perfect "one size fits all" cleaning procedure doesn't exist. Do you own experimentation and find one that fits for your shooting discipline, bore condition (factory / custom), and caliber characteristics, i.e., amount of overbore / powder being burned per round.

For me personally, waiting 200 rounds to clean the bore would not work, too much carbon build up. Also stripping all the copper out to a clean bore has always produced clean barrel flyers in my rifles and required the firing of several rounds before desired POI was re-established. But that's just my experience.

 

[358WCF]

Bore guide? We dont need no steenkeeng bore guide.

 

[SeabeeKen]

Similar to my method but I just run 2 patches of Prolix thru the bore, let it sit 10 min. The 25 strokes with a bronze brush with USP GK-7 (water based abrasive paste) and patch out followed by a chamber clean out. This works well on all my rifles and pistols. I do use a bore guide however. JME, YMMV

My barrels have smoothed but have never copper fouled

 

[Dgd6mm]

Barrel Cleaning. Possibly the #1 Topic throughout the year.

 

[rwj]

Barrel Cleaning. Possibly the #1 Topic throughout the year.

Followed closely by case cleaning!

 

[Dimner]

So here's the thing... That guy and his cleaning method can out shoot me any day of the week at what ever format he decides to play with.

So I really have no place to criticize. Personally I clean differently, but his cleaning method is totally valid.

 

[Dkk37058]

Sawing on that barrel like he’s playing a fiddle without a bore guide tells me he must be selling barrels on the side. The barrel makers are making barrels as fast as they can they don’t need any help to keep production up. Just my 2 cents worth of observation.

 

[Dgd6mm]

Well, ever since '07 when I started shooting the 6mm Competition Match I've been polishing the throat and barrel every 200 - 300 rounds. I do it to all my rifles now and have for years.
My cleaning regiment with solvents and a bronze brush are often.

 

[Dgd6mm]

Sawing on that barrel like he’s playing a fiddle without a bore guide tells me he must be selling barrels on the side. The barrel makers are making barrels as fast as they can they don’t need any help to keep production up. Just my 2 cents worth of observation.

I'll bet on that particular cartridge it will not be the rod that hurts that barrel.

 

[D the D]

His knowledge of umm, you know, so getting back to umm, you know, the internal ballistics where the back umm, you know, back pressure feeds back and that creates the rough bore.
Really?

 

[DirtySteve]

His knowledge of umm, you know, so getting back to umm, you know, the internal ballistics where the back umm, you know, back pressure feeds back and that creates the rough bore.
Really?

You know who he is and what he does, right?

 

[D the D]

You know who he is and what he does, right?

Yep. That makes it even worse.

 

[K22]

I don't doubt that individual's expertise or accomplishments. However, I just never experienced pressure signs, blow primers, and radical velocity changes attributed to cleaning a rifle bore and I've been shooting a long time most likely before that individual was born.

I shoot about a 1,000 round of centerfire a year, albeit in 10 different rifles, clean about every 50 rounds with a simple solvent and bronze brush, all fired in slow fire mode and never had the problems that the video claims. Also, I have never used abrasives. I also do not have clean or cold barrel flyers at least at the varmint accuracy level that I require.

Watching him "sawing" away with 30 stokes of an abrasive gave me the hives. And some worry about "barrel wear".

PS: Even an old timer like me has learn the absolute value of a bore guide to protect the throat.