Teslong borescope -- What It Reveals Can Bug You

[D Coots]

I do not know one Short Range Benchrest Shooter that does not use bronze brushes. And lots of them.

Odd man out here. I took the cure 10-12 years ago. Not that bronze brushes are bad, but I don't need them with my cleaning regime. I don’t have a need for abrasives often either.

According to some, we SRBR shooters overclean.

I don’t think so.

Later

Dave

 

[L.Sherm]

I do not know one Short Range Benchrest Shooter that does not use bronze brushes. And lots of them.

Jackie im pretty sure I watched a YouTube video Eric made about how Speedy cleans his barrels and he mentioned only using Isso Nylon brushes.
Maybe he's changed i don't know, it was the video about how he applied lock ease also

 

[JFrank]

I spend more time looking at targets than my bore, but when I do use my teslong it is check for firecracking

I look at a lot of targets as well, all winter long while others are home in front of a fire clipping their toenails.
I think a little common sense goes along ways when cleaning a barrel, each person seems to find a path that fits his of her program rather than all under one blanket, I mentioned before that I along with about every one I know has a shelf full of products, they all do something, some just more than others and only a scope will tell you the that.

Order Dewey no harm bronze brushes.

Thanks I’ll look into that new magic… I typically put a good dab of oil on a bronze brush and go at it but hundreds of passes with any bronze brush is likely to take its toll.
Thx
J

 

[L.Sherm]

I do use bronze from time to time rest of the time I use Isso or Montana extreme Nylon brushes. My teslong shows I'm getting the carbon out.

 

[K22]

Not due to lack of performance or functionality of the borescope. Rather, it has revealed that while my copper removal program is working well, getting the carbon out isn’t. Thus, it has caused me to spend the last 2 days removing carbon from a few rifles. C4, a bronze brush, and a little patience does the trick.

It does leave me wondering, however, about the old saying of “out of sight, out of mind”. Or in other words a “solution looking for a problem”.

I am sure some fellows, maybe a lot, will tell you what you did is necessary for ultimate accuracy. I am not one of them. I am not an "expert", just someone who has been in the game for 50+ years. In addition, my reloading and shooting goals are at the varmint grade precision level but not the bench rest level.

So, after qualifying my baseline and after trying a bunch of elaborate to extreme suggestions from "experts", I found that over cleaning such as you described does nothing but created first shot flyers, requires several shots to re-establish desired POI, and adds time and frustration to what should be, a rather simple process of cleaning your rifle to keep it serviceable condition. Not to mention the chance of damaging the bore / crown from the extreme / excessive number of strokes.

With that said, in my experience, all you need to do is clean on a regularly basis with a simple solvent such as Hoppe's 9 or Shooter Choice and a bronze brush. But as Hondo Lane once said, "A Man has to do what he thinks is best".

 

[Tommie]

A bore scope allows a person to get the rifle bore squeaky clean. Then the rifle will need fouling shots to work right.

Enjoy yourself.