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Talking hunting rifles - those that you hunt with and regularly shoot at the range.  How often do you clean the bore?

Never.
Only if obstructed (dirt, snow, etc.)
Only when accuracy falls off.
After every range session.
After every few shots.

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Re: How often do you clean your rifle bore (poll)?
« Reply #30 on: May 04, 2018, 06:59:16 PM »
Meh....what does he know. ;)
He would cringe at the thought of you taking a GI brush to your new baby he slaved over.  hehe

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Re: How often do you clean your rifle bore (poll)?
« Reply #31 on: May 04, 2018, 07:00:16 PM »
I wouldn't dream of it! Final 10 rounds of break in this weekend.

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Re: How often do you clean your rifle bore (poll)?
« Reply #32 on: May 04, 2018, 07:04:47 PM »
My accuracy went way up when I quit cleaning them.  The person who told me to clean after every trip to the range was a dork.  I now only clean if there is a good reason.

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Re: How often do you clean your rifle bore (poll)?
« Reply #33 on: May 04, 2018, 09:59:59 PM »
 Every gun is different..... my Rainier Arms AR Ultramatch will go 500 rounds before I start loosing accuracy and my Rbros 7mag is the most accurate at 40-70 rounds and has to be cleaned by 150. I also have a .300wm that has a shilen barrel that shoots best from10-40 rounds then goes to crap....

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Re: How often do you clean your rifle bore (poll)?
« Reply #34 on: May 04, 2018, 10:45:02 PM »
After the break-in period I don't clean unless accuracy drops off.  All of my rifles reach equilibrium somewhere after 20 - 40 rounds and maintain consistency for several hundred rounds before powder and/or copper fouling starts to effect bore dynamics.  One side effect of maintaining a dirty barrel I've discovered is that after a few weeks without firing a small amount of surface corrosion forms in the bore which will cause my cold bore shot to impact low.  The solution is to fire one fouling shot, this clears the bore and restores zero, velocity and ES.
a few weeks :yikes: how do you cope???
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Re: How often do you clean your rifle bore (poll)?
« Reply #35 on: May 05, 2018, 06:05:23 AM »
After the break-in period I don't clean unless accuracy drops off.  All of my rifles reach equilibrium somewhere after 20 - 40 rounds and maintain consistency for several hundred rounds before powder and/or copper fouling starts to effect bore dynamics.  One side effect of maintaining a dirty barrel I've discovered is that after a few weeks without firing a small amount of surface corrosion forms in the bore which will cause my cold bore shot to impact low.  The solution is to fire one fouling shot, this clears the bore and restores zero, velocity and ES.
a few weeks :yikes: how do you cope???

Man it’s tough....working and commuting sucks. Looking forward to a time when going to the range means opening the back door.
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Re: How often do you clean your rifle bore (poll)?
« Reply #36 on: May 06, 2018, 08:00:38 AM »
So this thread has got me thinking about brushing vs not brushing again.  Poll #2 coming up.

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Re: How often do you clean your rifle bore (poll)?
« Reply #37 on: May 06, 2018, 08:41:12 AM »
I only clean when groups open up. I will oil the bore and dry everything out if I was out in the rain though.

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Re: How often do you clean your rifle bore (poll)?
« Reply #38 on: May 10, 2018, 09:18:30 AM »
So this thread has got me thinking about brushing vs not brushing again.  Poll #2 coming up.
And nylon vs metal

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Re: How often do you clean your rifle bore (poll)?
« Reply #39 on: May 12, 2018, 06:11:06 AM »
 After having a rifle with a tight neck chamber and developing a carbon ring, I am more paranoid about that.  I pay more attention to the neck area not having any build up. 

I always use a bronze brush to reduce the chance of getting a carbon ring. when you are at the range and all of a sudden you can't chamber a round and your scratching your head WTF is going on you get home start measuring your ammo and its all good. then you have a carbon ring time to use that bronze brush because that patch with solvent won't help you unless you break it free with a brush.
in my experience A bronze brush works better then nylon brushes.

 


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