Mag tube cleaning

[Gundogblue]

I got a view never fired 2018 miroku Winchester 1892 in .45 Colt, shooting tumble lubed cast boolits will eventually crud up the mag tube, so all you guys and gals shootin those boolits out of your leeever guns, how often do you have to clean the mag tube?
Thanks,
Paul

[Texas by God]

Two years so far without cleaning the mag tube of my 38-55 Winchester 94, using Lee 379-250 tumble lubed.
But a Cowboy Action Shooter going through lots of rounds might have a different situation.

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[Bazoo]

I take the tube off of my winchester 94 for cleaning at least every year or two. It don't see much TL bullets, but sees mostly cast. I also detail strip the gun every couple years. Just the way I run.

[cwtebay]

Boy, that's a good question. I don't believe I have ever cleaned any magazine tubes! Now you have me thinking....

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[Bazoo]

Once in a while, I'll take a cleaning rod and push in the follower and wipe out a 22s inner mag tube with a dry patch.

[Gundogblue]

The reason I ask how often ya’ll do it is cuz I have an 1894 Marlin in .44 mag. I bought the gun new and first thing I did was it and clean it, but I didn’t think of the mag tube. The rifle ran real good until about the 500 rnd mark, then she started giving me feeding problems. I took the mag tube cap off, and the spring and follower out and they were really filthy, and so was the inside of the mag tube. The only reason I can figure why it was so dirty is when I tumble lube my boolits I dont wipe it off the nose of the boolits, and after so many of them went into the mag tube, that crap just builds up. That’s when I noticed Marlin uses that crappy red plastic follower, so I replaced it with a brass follower from Bear Tooth Mercantile, anyway the cleaning and possibly replacing the plastic follower fixed the feeding prob. Now I just gotta figure out a good mag tube cleaning schedual for both the Winchester and Marlin
Paul

[Bazoo]

Might be every 500 is a good number, maybe you can stretch it past 1000 now that it's clean. It's a trade off between cheap and easy lube vs gun maintenance. Guns that are shot exclusively with non TL bullets can go longer. Likely a metal follower will scrape some dirt/lube out as it goes up the tube, whereas a plastic follower wouldn't do as much.

Could be too there was some debris in there from the factory, that mixed with the residual TL.

[para45lda]

When I shot Cowboy, I wiped every boolit after loading with a rag. And yes, it sometimes was tedious (or calming depending on I approached it I guess).

I was using the lanolin/alcohol case lube on my progressive so it cut down on grit sticking to my loaded rounds and reduced the issue you are having.

Wes