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Haa anyone done any testing to evaluate the benefit of cleaning a Free pistol barrel?

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Probably doesn't really need cleaning very often. Perhaps twice a year or once every 2500 cartridges.

I give the falling block a good scrub out and hit the mechanism with a paintbrush before every major match more as a part of taking care of the gear.

CorrosionX Aviation all around to avoid corrosion.

I clean mine after every session. I especially clean out the compensator as it gets lead fouled very easily.

Joel

SamEEE wrote:..Probably doesn't really need cleaning very often. Perhaps twice a year or once every 2500 cartridges.....

I agree. Cleaning a FP bore more often does not appear to matter. What swabs out at 2500 rounds is about the same as what swabs out after 10 rounds. And, a clean bore seems to need about 10 rounds through it before it settles.

Clean your barrels after every time you shoot. The only exception would be if you are shooting highly accurized rifles and do not want a shift in POI between your cold barrel shot and follow-on shots. Believe it or not, the difference in POI is more a factor of copper build up in the barrel than the barrel being cold or hot... if you fire 50 shots from a sniper rifle and then clean the barrel and get all the copper fouling out of it, the first few shots will have POIs that are different than the 50th shot of your prior range session because the copper fouling has to build up again in order to stabilize and have the consistency that it was at at that 50th shot. For normal shooting, clean after every shooting session.



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Obezamatt, may I ask you a question? Have you ever shot a free pistol?

shaky hands wrote:Obezamatt, may I ask you a question? Have you ever shot a free pistol?

LOL...

How many of you free pistol shooters shoot jacketed .22LR ammunition ?
Please raise your hand...

That's what I thought :)

It should be after each session. It's not about precision, it's about durability (google chemical processes in metal...).

If you care only about precision, it depends of a pistol model. Some models do not like to be absolutely clean.

Barrel brushed after each match, compensator cleaned every 5-6 match's.
Strip, full deep clean, inspect, lube and oil grip etc. annually.
( Heavy training some years ago every three to four months.)

When you can't hammer a cartridge into the chamber any longer it's time to think about a cleaning.

Rover wrote:When you can't hammer a cartridge into the chamber any longer it's time to think about a cleaning.

I finally agree with rover on something

Idol-111 wrote:It should be after each session. It's not about precision, it's about durability (google chemical processes in metal...).

If you care only about precision, it depends of a pistol model. Some models do not like to be absolutely clean.

Surely this means something. I just can't decipher what.