Poll: How Often Do You Clean Your Barrel?

Christopher Miceli · Post by **Christopher Miceli** » Sun Oct 28, 2018 10:10 am

don't shoot those felt pellets in the pardini. Only barrel scrubbing for those heathens.

j-team · Post by **j-team** » Sun Oct 28, 2018 2:05 pm

deadeyedick wrote:.

Come on J...you can do better...show me the ransom squashed and reversed test !

Did you not notice the part of your post that I quoted in that response?

How about you do it and prove me wrong? (and BTW, Ransom rests are not as good as a machine vice bolted to a concrete plinth). Or just shoot some offhand and see if you can honestly notice any difference in scores?

kevinweiho · Post by **kevinweiho** » Sun Oct 28, 2018 11:34 pm

atomicgale wrote:Regarding the SMOOTH TWIST YouTube above: Are marketers utter and complete IDIOTS?

These marketers state their Smooth Twist will "increase the ballistic coefficient." So, that means their barrel will actually change the shape of the projectile? REALLY?

And WTF does "this boosts the Precision Ratio of each shot" mean?

Maybe bring back the Flobart Competition where competitors shoot at each other. This time it's the Team Event: Marketers vs. Physicists.

Marketers are not idiots as you claim they are, many are REALLY good at their sales pitch…It may sound absurd and ridiculous, but the smooth twist barrel turned out to be a success for FX.

atomicgale · Post by **atomicgale** » Mon Oct 29, 2018 6:05 pm

Still, a FLOBART-DUEL is really the only way to truly settle the differences between marketers vs. physicists.

( . . . and still a no-comment on WTF boosting the "Precision ratio" is . . . from that horrendous FX advert.)

yana · Post by **yana** » Tue Nov 06, 2018 2:44 am

Only when there's an accuracy problem. But even than its usually only to rule that factor out
Never had any issues really caused by fouling. Not that I can remember. Díd have some issues with rustformation in the barrel.
Common with CO2, sometimes pcp guns and with some of my oldies

samg · Post by **samg** » Tue Nov 06, 2018 8:51 am

I am in the process of cleaning out a lead fouled barrel and a lead ring in the chamber of a free pistol I recently acquired. First time I have run into this problem. I think I will go back to cleaning my barrels more frequently. Cleaning out the fouling lead is a lot of work.

Rover · Post by **Rover** » Tue Nov 06, 2018 1:21 pm

"Cleaning out the fouling lead is a lot of work."

Actually, it is quite fast and easy. Take a tired bore brush and wrap a few strands cut from a Chore Boy (Copper) scrubbing pad. A few strokes....all gone.

samg · Post by **samg** » Tue Nov 06, 2018 10:47 pm

Rover wrote: ↑Tue Nov 06, 2018 1:21 pm "Cleaning out the fouling lead is a lot of work."

Actually, it is quite fast and easy. Take a tired bore brush and wrap a few strands cut from a Chore Boy (Copper) scrubbing pad. A few strokes....all gone.

Wow.... I wish I knew that a week ago. Thanks Rover.

gimgim · Post by **gimgim** » Wed Nov 07, 2018 5:18 am

I use a cheap boresnake clone on both the Toz and the PCP, always dry and fed from the breech.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Bore-Snake-Gun ... 2617226643
(the 4.5mm boresnake doesn't have any brush). I have used felt pellets, and they always come out clean

Any reason not to use this method?

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