Hot weather barrel cooling

[desertbandit]

I live in Southern NM and it get's hot.....Barrel cooling between groups is a time consuming process, especially in the summer....I came up with this solution for me that works pretty, in spite of being a pain in the ass......I run a barrel cooling fan and I take aquarium tubing and wrap the barrel with that and run ice water thru it.....It's kind of a pain wrapping the barrel the first time, but after that, slide the coils off the end of the barrel and place in the ice water and you can slide the coils on the barrel the next time and they stay coiled.....Just my idea and take it for what it's worth, especially desert shooters....

 

[Fuj]

I have experimented with using compressed CO2 to squirt down
a barrel. I used a hand, power inflator I always kept with the ATV's.
Them fat stainless barrels don't like to give up the heat. This last
barrel I had then lightly flute it to help cooling, and port the bottom
of my stock to improve cooling.

 

[moondog]

Super high tech, and maybe too complicated. I bring a cooler with some water and ice. Soak a towel, wring it out, wrap barrel.

 

[Shooter13]

I have thought about what you are doing only using tubing small enough to go through the barrel and use an aquarium pump to circulate ice water on the interior of the barrel through the chamber.

 

[Adam in WI]

Standing your rifle up with the breech open cools them faster than setting them aside fwiw

 

[LVLAaron]

Whatever your method... cooling the outside will work much faster than the inside due to surface area. I'm bad at math but the surface area of the outside of the barrel must be 5-10 that of the bore?

Something like this over the barrel is probably as good as it gets.

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[joshb]

I use ice packs from the pharmacy. The reusable kind with a soft cloth cover for putting on shoulders and such. I keep them in a ziplock on ice in a small cooler.
They’re thin enough to slide under my scope at the chamber.

 

[DaveTooley]

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Been doing this for 40 years. Cooler of ice water and a battery syringe. Fill the syringe with ice water, insert into chamber with muzzle down and trickle ice water down the barrel. I rotate the rifle side to side to distribute the cooling affect. You can add a short piece of hose that helps. Push a patch down the barrel and go back to shooting.

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[DickE]

Had wife make me a long cloth 16" long by 2" wide, soak in isopropyl alcohol, cools faster than water.

 

[AckleymanII]

Hot weather barrel cooling

I live in Southern NM and it get's hot.....Barrel cooling between groups is a time consuming process, especially in the summer....I came up with this solution for me that works pretty, in spite of being a pain in the ass......I run a barrel cooling fan and I take aquarium tubing and wrap the...

forum.accurateshooter.com

Read my post in the above thread. Many of us use this method, chrome moly and ss barrels. Water, followed by 4 patches on a punch type jag, then dry the chamber, back to shooting. We used Hart, Kreiger, Shilen SS unturned blanks, set the barrels back several times on each barrel as throats get worn.

Gasses proceeding the bullet, evaporate any and all water molecules that could be down in pores of the barrel. I had a Rem 788 that I put 5000 rounds on, never got any rust on a patch.

The barrel would have to be 800* before the water could do harm to the steel.

We used room temp water.

 

[TrapperBR549]

I use an aquarium air pump and run the tubing into the chamber. I set the pump on top of ice packs since it draws the air in from the bottom of the pump. I have a soft sided lunch cooler I put the ice pack in, set the pump on top, and there is an outside pocket to put the battery in for the pump.
I'm sure it doesn't work near as fast as circulating water but it is real easy and is a significant improvement over just standing them up in the shade.

 

[5spd]

I made a barrel wrap and keep wet with a squirt bottle. Been doing it that way for 35yrs, works like a charm and simple.

 

[D Coots]

Super high tech, and maybe too complicated. I bring a cooler with some water and ice. Soak a towel, wring it out, wrap barrel.

Ah, the KISS METHOD...as I always have a cooler along, the only extra baggage is a small towel.

I also do the same at matches.

 

[rayporter]

experience says a blast of CO2 or squirting cold water down the barrel cools it quickest of all.

however wet towels get used far more often because of the KISS principle.

 

[ronsatspokane]

Standing your rifle up with the breech open cools them faster than setting them aside fwiw

Winner. The chimney effect. The heat rises and draws cool air in through the breech. Even 90 or 100 degree air will cool the barrel back to shootable condition.

 

[Bill Norris]

I recently purchased one of these and happy with the results. Runs off of 4 double A batteries and really works well.

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[desertbandit]

I have thought about what you are doing only using tubing small enough to go through the barrel and use an aquarium pump to circulate ice water on the interior of the barrel through the chamber.

Then I think you might have condensation problems

 

[AckleymanII]

50/50 water alcohol, applied with a dripping wet wash cloth to the point where the liquid is dripping off the bottom of the barrel, works.

When shooting red hot p. dog town, using stainless actions, barrels, and fiberglass stocks, we sealed the barrel channel. Then on the dog towns, we filled the barrel channels full of 50/50 water and alcohol...helped extend the shooting strings.

 

[rayporter]

patience, grasshopper.

 

[TheOtherZilla]

I have a chamber chiller. But usually I take 4-5 rifles and let em cool as they heat up, by rotating them out of the line up.