17 HMR What is your barrel cleaning frequency?

[jepp2]

I intend to use my 17 HMR's for the closer in prairie dog shots this year. So I was curious about your shot frequency cleaning practices for this round? I have a Lilja barrel and a Cooper (Wilson) barrel.

Just for reference, with centerfire I clean after every 50 rounds in the field with Butches Bore Shine which tends to remove most of the firing residue and some of the copper. At night I clean the bore with a stronger copper remover. I normally fire ~225-250 rounds per day.

 

[jpx2rk]

I intend to use my 17 HMR's for the closer in prairie dog shots this year. So I was curious about your shot frequency cleaning practices for this round? I have a Lilja barrel and a Cooper (Wilson) barrel.

Just for reference, with centerfire I clean after every 50 rounds in the field with Butches Bore Shine which tends to remove most of the firing residue and some of the copper. At night I clean the bore with a stronger copper remover. I normally fire ~225-250 rounds per day.

What "stronger" solvent do you use for copper removal? I've found Butch's to not clean out the copper very well, been using Hoppe's Copper remover.

I clean my factory savage barrel about every 50 rds, but only have about 300 rds down the tube right now.

 

[Rem06]

bore tech eliminator

 

[rkittine]

I clean after every shooting session or 50 rounds, which ever comes first.

Bob

 

[TheOtherZilla]

I clean whenever I git the urge.. Sometimes I shoot a few hunerd rounds or more before cleaning.. If I cleaned at say 50 rds I'd never get any pdawg killin done..

 

[jepp2]

What "stronger" solvent do you use for copper removal?

I had been using Bore Tech Copper Remover, but find that Bore Tech Eliminator works just as well for me. And yes, Butches gets maybe 25% of the copper for me.

 

[drover]

I also usually shoot 200- 250 rounds a day through my 17 HMR. I don't bother with any in-between cleaning during the day, I just clean it when I am done for the day. If not cleaning during the day has enough effect on accuracy for it to be an issue I certainly have never noticed it.

Both the Lilja and Cooper barrels are lapped barrels so buildup from the small amount that you are shooting a day should not even be an issue for concern.

drover

 

[Tommie]

I clean whenever I git the urge.. Sometimes I shoot a few hunerd rounds or more before cleaning.. If I cleaned at say 50 rds I'd never get any pdawg killin done..

Yup. Clean the HMR at the end of the day.

 

[rr2030]

clean it after I use it. I don't pay attention to round count.

 

[charlesasmith]

My Anschutz 1517 gets to 130 rounds before accuracy drops off. As a result, I clean @ 100 rounds. Just got a Tika T1. Will be shooting it soon after getting rings for my scope. Hope it will take more rounds of fouling before accuracy is affected.

Chuck

 

[DennisH]

50 to 75 rounds for me. I can "definetly" tell a difference when the barrel starts to foul.

 

[moorepower]

I clean mine the end of the day, "Savage", and the accuracy is not falling off. My dad's gun, "Savage" was not cleaned for 10 years, and I can't say it was any less accurate, 3/4-1" groups with a std barrel, not heavy. A17 will make you at least clean out powder residue. I kind of need to revise, he would spray WD40 down the tube if he thought of it, which means every few months, possibly, if he thought of it. FYI he has dementia.

 

[searcher]

I run a Hoppes bore snake through two or three times every 100 rounds or so and at 400 - I do a serious bore clean using Bore-tech products. I have about 9,000 rounds on the current one and it shoots as good as new. One of my shooting buddies cleaned his about every 500 rounds and after 20,000 or so rounds, it quit being accurate and it was found the bore was quite shot.

 

[LANIII]

I think Sweets is the best copper remover but careful use is a must....

Agreed but it is so hard to find!!