Not too sure where this can / should be posted because it isn't PPing as such. It's more gunsmithing than anything else I suppose, but TWIMC; I got this fire-polishing thing started a while back by publishing a short article in the CBA's Fouling Shot describing some fire polishing I did on a Yugoslav 8x57.
Well, as it happens, I've gotten both my stepsons into shooting, and last weekend, one of them expressed an interest in the nice milsurp 8MM that was taking up space in my safe. I haven't done anything much with it (crude iron sights and old eyes are not good bedfellows), so I invited him to take it back with him and borrow it for a year or two (VBG).
He just called to tell me it shoots GREAT!! To some folks, 'great' means that he hit the barn both times, so I questioned him about the details. He said he'd just shot at a 1" square on a sheet of paper at 100 yards, and managed to keep all his shots within an inch of it. That translates to a 3" group with iron sights, which may not be anything to compete with in a benchrest match, but at the very least, it should be enough to indicate that firepolishing your bore isn't likely to do any serious harm.
Another shooter (who also posts here, but I don't have permisssion to quote him) wrote to tell me that he'd run a few firepolishing shots through his 2-groove springfield. He'd followed my advice about using a jacketed bullet and a powder charge in the 50% of normal ballpark, and had no trace of trouble. Results: Incomplete at the moment, as he plans to do some more firepolishing, but the pressure to push a patch down the bore was notably more uniform than what it had been.
I'm continuing to get more and more positive reports on fire-polishing, and to date, not a single adverse comment. So come on fellows, get your feet wet.
Now I just need to get my stepson into cast bullets...
Molly
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