Originally Posted by
Thundarstick
I've been watching this thread since the beginning with interest. I've been cleaning for years now with a modified reds, marvel mystery oil, ATF, and real mineral spirits. I'm not sure what's in ATF that dissolves lead, but I soak suppressors in it a week and the fouling comes off with a tooth brush! Works wonders on.22lr revolver cylinder faces. Personally I believe more. 22lr barrels are ruined by poor cleaning techniques than by no cleaning. I have found that cleaning the area just in front of the chamber, pulling a wet patch through, followed by a couple of dry patches work to keep my rifles accurate enough for me. If your talking about rimfire bench rest competition, that's in a whole different league of accuracy, planetary alignment, appeasing the proper gods, and being able to read the wind like a swallow! I've come to view. 22lr barrels about like cast iron skillets. They've got to be seasoned properly, and that seasoning maintained, but eventually stripped to bare iron and started over again.
With out great chambers, great ammo, and great guns, chasing the accuracy fairy is like trying to catch a leprechaun!