Moly help.

[zfk55]

We use Moly impact coated projectiles for one solitary dedicated rifle with great success, however............ We do clean it after every 250+ rounds and end up having to put 10 or 15 coated rounds downrange to get it back to the performance starting point.
Enter........ Moly Paste. Preloading the barrel is the obvious answer to get that first shot accuracy, but I don't know enough about the pastes to know Moly content. I have the one that lists 65% Moly and a 750 degree performance. Is 65% the standard?
Thanks for any input.

zfk55

 

[82boy]

With my Moly guns, I don't try to scrub out all the moly, just clean it enough to get the fouling out. I use rb17 on a bronze brush, and make about 20 passes ,and then push a couple of patches through. And it only takes a few rounds to settle back in.

As far as pre treating the barrel, I have taken just plane moly dry in powder form, and placed it in a small bottle. I then just put a small amount on a patch and patch it through. Then take a dry patch and push out the extra. I have also mixed Moly with kroil, the problem is the two separate and it requires a lot of shaking to get the two to mix together, but they latter separate. Out of the two I would pick the powder moly.

 

[500 meter ram]

I've used a product from Franklin Arsenal called Bore Moly to pre-treat my silhouette guns after cleaning and haven't noticed a need to fire a few rounds to get back to zero. Of course I'm only shooting 200 to 500 meters offhand and not benchrest matches.

 

[FrankintheLaurelMts]

I agree with the above, I don't try to get all that bad ole' black stuff out of the bore. That's the idea in the first place..plug up all dem' dare holes, lines and scratches! I normal also go well over 100 shots and sometimes over 200 before even thinking about a little Kroil and elbow greese... Tons of people bad mouth moly and danzac but me personally I love both, all my competition and hunting rifles use one or the other.. Danzac works great on those all copper X bullets, sure did the trick. I think if more people just tried it longer and didn't worry so much about those black patches alot more people would be shooting.. and as far as rust in the barrel after sitting, some of mine sit all winter in the safe and I've never noticed a single speck of runt with a bore scope in any of them.. Both are great, just give it some time!

 

[zfk55]

Thanks Gents.

zfk55

 

[hawghunter]

I agree with the above, after 200 or so rounds in two 30BRs a.223 and a 6-284, I run a couple of wet patches with shooters choice then I use a nylon brush and shooters choice 8 to 10 passes a couple of wet patches then dry patch it out 2 to3 shot and its right there hope it helps Mark

 

[zfk55]

And I thank you all for the informative answers, but I actually do follow the same basic methodology of all here, but..........
I'd like to take one more shot at my original question.
Those who do use Moly paste, what % of Moly is in your paste? I assume that your cannisters don't actually list ingredient %ages?
Mine does list it as 65% Moly and a performance temperature to 750 degrees. Does anyone have a paste that is more than 65% Moly?
Thank you

zfk55