Lube for inside barrel

[Ranger188]

I've been reading more and more shooters after cleaning are running a last patch with some kind of lube so the next time out, you are not shooting your first shot in a dry barrel.
Is this fact or fiction? ( I've been doing it for awhile, figure it can't hurt)
What are you putting down you barrel? I've seen Kroil and Ballistol.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

Lock eeze. Dont shoot with oil in your barrel. I havent seen people advocating this but i wouldnt be surprised about anything these guys come up with these days

 

[Park ranger]

I did it years ago before I knew better. Wet patch of tetragun in the bore. Turned a 2550 FPS loaf to 2750 on first shot.

 

[Dud]

Some people treat barrels with Hexagonal Boron Nitride suspended in alcohol and shoot bullets impact coated with HBN.

 

[Tommie]

Another vote for Lock Ease.

 

[Rsadams]

Run lube inside the barrel to stop rust , some cleaners are water based.... I always use a patch of slip 2000 ewl through the barrel after cleaning on everything... But I run a dry patch or two before shooting...

 

[Uthink Uknow]

I’ve been running Hex Boron Nitride in a suspension of alcohol like Dud. It has all the benefits of lockeeze. Lockeeze is a suspension of Tungsten Disulfide. The two are similar in performance but BN doesn’t leave you with dirty hands. In fact BN is used in makeup.

 

[JMayo]

Kroil patched out with several dry patches.

Imo anything burns away ahead of bullet exiting ...

 

[msinc]

Kroil patched out with several dry patches.

Imo anything burns away ahead of bullet exiting ...

I don't understand, and not saying "no" to this, but what exactly is ahead of the bullet to "burn" it away ?????

I have never really seen any difference between bone dry and lightly wet with something. I have never shot a rifle with a slopping wet oily bore, but have with pretty much everything else and again, seen no difference that I could call out. It has always been my understanding that the copper jacket was all the "lube" a barrel was supposed to need. I also seriously doubt anything else is at work after the first shot. Plenty to "burn it away" behind the bullet. Seems to me anything in the bore will only matter to the first shot anyways.
So called "cold bore shots" and "foulers"...I get it, but why assign so much importance to the first shot happenings?

 

[Uthink Uknow]

Msinc,
You obviously don't shoot short range, and for that matter long range, competition. If the first or cold bore shot are out, so are you. With an untreated barrel you have a good chance for an errant shot. This is one of he reasons there is a “sighter” bull on the target.

 

[Terry]

I had read a story about a shooter using a .308. He was oiling his barrel after cleaning. It took 20 or so shots for his rifle to become consistent. When he stopped oiling the barrel the problem went away. I have been using a clean bore ever since.

 

[ridgeway]

I have never ever had a barrel that put the first cold bore shot on a clean bore in the same location as a fouled warm barrel. I run a 50/50 patch of kroil and hoppes down after cleaning. I will dry patch two times to swab out. Just a habit I guess and that's what I do. Whatever you all do...thats your prerogative....

 

[garandman]

in my 22rf Vudoo, I use Slip 2000, followed by a dry patch or 2 to make sure there's no heavy residue that could increase pressures....just enuf to protect the bore. Takes 5-10 shots to "season" the bore back to 0.25" accuracy at 50 yd, with or without the light oil bore coat.

Kroil is good too....tho when I dry patch Kroil, it sounds like finger nails on a chalkboard (millennials won't understand that ) Its unnerving, so I don't use it. NOT intending any criticism of those who do.

 

[Uthink Uknow]

I don’t hunt, that is not a condemnation of those who do but rather a statement of the environment my rifles are accustomed to. It’s a controlled environment and so I am more concerned about the rifle when I shoot it rather than worrying about when it is stored. Nevertheless, mine are stored with hex boron in the bore because that is what I want in it when it is fired. I think there are two different cultures conversing about the bore here.

 

[mikecr]

Lockeeze is a suspension of Tungsten Disulfide.

No it isn't. Lockeeze is a suspension of graphite.

I dry my cleaned bores with alcohol and then dry burnish in WS2 before putting guns away.
1st shot will be as good as any to follow.

 

[Uthink Uknow]

Mike, you’re right.

 

[Ken]

Someone told me you can "ring" your barrel if you shoot it with oil in it. That was after he diagnosed a pistol barrel I had as "Ringed".

 

[mongo chicago]

Liquids do NOT compress, so any liquid inside a barrel will raise pressures. Oil inside a barrel is to prevent rust. Always dry patch before shooting.

 

[Tim s]

The Lock eeze works well and I usually finish with it in any comp barrel, during a match.
Before that, for years I used Montana bore conditioner and still rely on it in most varmint/fun gun bores that don’t get shot a ton.

 

[AckleymanII]

One thing to remember, thousands of degrees proceed a bullet in the bore. So, a dry patch on a tight punch type jag prior to shooting will be all a guy needs.

I have used Ronson lighter fluid in between weekly range sessons, and for longer storage, a "spot" on a patch of Lock eze or eezox. Chronograph your loads when you start shooting, you will see where the velocity stabilizes.

A guy that likes to slurp up his barrel with oil, may put 6-10 patches of lighter fluid down his barrel with a tight punch type of jag before he starts shooting. He should also dry his chamber very well.