WOW. Lots of questions. I use the same hBN to coat the bore that I use to coat bullets. As stated earlier, I keep the slurry solution in a prescription bottle that is slightly taller than a bore mop. The mop stays in the bottle.
Jaychris, it takes more than a couple patches. I use the type of jag that is similar to a sewing needle and which the patch is 'threaded' on the jag. The first patch comes out the muzzle filthy black, but I pull it back thru as the filthy side comes back thru inside out. That patch is tossed. A second patch is run back and forth twice. A third patch makes three round trips. I then switch to a tighter fitting patch and run it thru 4 or 5 times. Then back to the original size patch and if I can reverse it just before the patch clears the muzzle and pull it all the way back to the chamber, then I am done. Before the dry patches, I spin a bronze brush in the chamber neck and throat area to remove any carbon deposits in that area. I try to do the dry patching as soon after 20 shots as possible since it only takes 5 minutes or so. Last week at the Rayner's long range steel comp I dry patched at the lunch break. The format there is 18 shots at three stations, lunch, then 18 shots at three more stations.
Tumbling bullets. I have a vitamin bottle with BBs covering the bottom one fifth of the bottle. Since that bottle has probably coated 3000 or so bullets, the inside is pretty well coated. I use enough hBN that stays on the end of a popsicle stick for 100 105 grain bullets. I used to wash bullets first but got lazy and quit and I don't see a difference in the bullet appearance. I have the small Lyman tumbler bowl and the vitamin bottle wedges in the empty bowl. So the tumbler vibration goes directly to the vitamin bottle which runs for 2 hours. I pull the bullets out of the bottle with tweezers so any leftover hBN and BBs stay in the bottle. Wipe 20 off at a time and they go back in the original boxes. Yes, they have a frosty look to them at this point.
As far as I know, Tubb's kit is the same hBN.
As I stated earlier, the first barrel I did had 39 rounds down it before getting the hBN bore mop treatment. And as the article cautioned, I cleaned and scrubbed until I felt the bore was squeaky clean just before the ceramic coating process. When I got my second 6XC barrel, I decided to ceramic coat before the first bullet went down the bore skipping any break-in. That barrel has 665 rounds down it and I don't see any ill effects from what I did. My latest barrel, a Bartlein 5R chambered in 6SLR also got the same treatment before the first shot. 434 rounds later, also no ill effects. That barrel killed 4 groundhogs this morning with 4 shots - 267, 429, 366, and 271 yards.
Jaychris, it takes more than a couple patches. I use the type of jag that is similar to a sewing needle and which the patch is 'threaded' on the jag. The first patch comes out the muzzle filthy black, but I pull it back thru as the filthy side comes back thru inside out. That patch is tossed. A second patch is run back and forth twice. A third patch makes three round trips. I then switch to a tighter fitting patch and run it thru 4 or 5 times. Then back to the original size patch and if I can reverse it just before the patch clears the muzzle and pull it all the way back to the chamber, then I am done. Before the dry patches, I spin a bronze brush in the chamber neck and throat area to remove any carbon deposits in that area. I try to do the dry patching as soon after 20 shots as possible since it only takes 5 minutes or so. Last week at the Rayner's long range steel comp I dry patched at the lunch break. The format there is 18 shots at three stations, lunch, then 18 shots at three more stations.
Tumbling bullets. I have a vitamin bottle with BBs covering the bottom one fifth of the bottle. Since that bottle has probably coated 3000 or so bullets, the inside is pretty well coated. I use enough hBN that stays on the end of a popsicle stick for 100 105 grain bullets. I used to wash bullets first but got lazy and quit and I don't see a difference in the bullet appearance. I have the small Lyman tumbler bowl and the vitamin bottle wedges in the empty bowl. So the tumbler vibration goes directly to the vitamin bottle which runs for 2 hours. I pull the bullets out of the bottle with tweezers so any leftover hBN and BBs stay in the bottle. Wipe 20 off at a time and they go back in the original boxes. Yes, they have a frosty look to them at this point.
As far as I know, Tubb's kit is the same hBN.
As I stated earlier, the first barrel I did had 39 rounds down it before getting the hBN bore mop treatment. And as the article cautioned, I cleaned and scrubbed until I felt the bore was squeaky clean just before the ceramic coating process. When I got my second 6XC barrel, I decided to ceramic coat before the first bullet went down the bore skipping any break-in. That barrel has 665 rounds down it and I don't see any ill effects from what I did. My latest barrel, a Bartlein 5R chambered in 6SLR also got the same treatment before the first shot. 434 rounds later, also no ill effects. That barrel killed 4 groundhogs this morning with 4 shots - 267, 429, 366, and 271 yards.
