I am just shooting local matches just for fun. I sometimes get some shots that I cannot figure out why. (I KNOW YOU GUYS NEVER HAVE THOSE.) I was hoping to have an excuse, but you are not giving me one. I decided to NOT clean my barrel yet.
I am just shooting local matches just for fun. I sometimes get some shots that I cannot figure out why. (I KNOW YOU GUYS NEVER HAVE THOSE.) I was hoping to have an excuse, but you are not giving me one. I decided to NOT clean my barrel yet.
Thanks for the reply.
So there is no real red light indicator for you either. Just watching and some intuition.
I shoot a match called 22 BPCR, (silhouette) targets at 50, 100, 150 and 200 meters and among competitors this is always a subject of many opinions. I like to clean and it doesn't take but five or so rounds to get back into the zone. There is some abrasive ware from the priming mixture just ahead of the chamber, most often found in the lower half of the barrel. It takes a lot of rounds to have damage show up.
Chill Wills
You guys clean your rifles?
It just don't feel right to put a gun away still dirty...
Currently casting and loading: .32 Auto, .380 Auto, .38 Special, 9X19, .357 Magnum, .257 Roberts, 6.5 Creedmoor, .30 WCF, .308 WCF, .45-70.
For a Quickie Clean ... pull a bore snake with a little bore solvent / CLP soaked in , through the barrel ... that way you don't risk damage from a metal rod .
I can't put away any rifle without doing something to clean it ... Daddy wouldn't let us eat supper till all the guns were cleaned and put away ...old habits die hard !
The one thing you can say about a bore snake is it will not damage the bore / muzzle .
Gary
Certified Cajun
Proud Member of The Basket of Deplorables
" Let's Go Brandon !"
That is good advice. Bore snakes are a good snake.
IMO the gun may "talk to me", but it takes me a few groups to listen. I am not good enough to know if one group was bad because I am not a machine rest, or the wind got me. And as I get older, it seems my hearing is getting worse!!
Don Verna
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |