Cleaning ?

[bootlaceb]

Hi All,
When I was in school, we did sport shooting. I was in the senior team, and after every shoot, every afternoon after school) we used to gather at the armoury and spend the next hour or so cleaning our Anschutz .22's.Shiney barrel after lots of Hoppes No9 and a slight oil afterwards.
Now I am led to believe that it is not a good thing anymore.

What are the procedures for maintaning a .22LR these days? Could you guys shed some light on this for me please

Thanx

 

[Aussie_bob]

I personally only wipe out excess lube etc with a patch before i start shooting.
Anschutz say only to wipe it out when necessary.
I believe in talking to the makers and follow their advice they have been making very good rifles for many years

 

[rangerruck]

another thought is, a rimfire just doesn't have the heat or pressure, that is required to really make it foul up a bbl. Especially since most ammo fired through it is lead, it doesn't get hot enough to go magma on you, so it doesn't leave the lead or the jacketing, in the bores. powder fouling is a diff thing alltogether, though!!!!. I go reall easy on my rimfires, usually just using a boresnake on the bench, or maybe a rod with a few wet patches. if the guilt is eating me up inside. I will take it apart, and use a foaming cleanser, let sit for 10 mins. then repeat.
clean out all the gunk everywhere, with no scrubbing whatsoever, blast out with hot, fast moving water,, my kitchen sink happens to be great for this), then dry and lube. mostly, this is accomplished with little or no scrubbing with borebrushes whatsoever.

 

[tikkathreebarrels]

I've previously cleaned,Hoppes No.9 wet patch, brush scrub and dry patch 'til clean) my .22 rimfires out, the Sako Range at periodic intervals, the historic guns - Lee Enfield No.9, Martini Bonehill and the Valmet target/bench gun after every competition and have found the only noticeable effect is that they then take a dozen or so rounds to settle down again on Point of Impact.

This year I shan't be doing anything to the bores other than shoving a dry patch down to wipe out the spent powder soot; the wax I shall leave there. Oh yes, mostly subsonics but the occasional plinking session with hivelocity stuff.

What does definitely make a difference is keeping the moderator clean. If I find group sizes opening in the Sako this always identifies that the moderator has a lot of loose crud building up. The gun before - a Brazilian Magtech - was more marked in this respect.