To cayugad, Underclocked and everyone else, now that I have the White on layaway and I wont beshooting any plastic through it whats the best way to clean the barrel to remove all the lead? I'm hoping I dont need all the harsh chemicals I use on my sabot guns to remove the plastic. What are some good methods and chemicals to keep it free of all that lead? Any and allresponses would be appreciated.
The one thing you are going to find out is how easy the White is to clean. Since the rifle is Stainless Steel, I've never had a rifle clean up so fast as this Ultra Mag. Plus the only tool needed to break the rifle down is an Allen wrench. That will remove the two locking lugs for the barrel, and fit the bold trigger as well. I do take the trigger out eachtime, spray that down with brake cleaner, wipe it all clean, then shoot it will a little heavy duty silicon spray.
The hammer, spring, locking end cap, and breech plug/nipple combination is all stainless so they clean real easy. I have a small jar with soapy water in it. I throw the breech plug and hammer in there while I clean the barrel and let it soak. they come clean real easy in a little while.
Take a patch and wet it good and heavy with isopropyl alcohol and car windshield washer fluid and run about three of them in the barrel to remove the fowling. If you look through it the rifle looks clean already. I then take a breech brush, wrap a patch around that and put some Rusty Duck or Butch's Bore Shine on it and clean the breech threads.
Now I take some Birchwood Casey Bore Scrubber that removes lead, copper, plastic, etc.. it is some strong stuff. I put a brass brush on the end of the clean rod, wrap a cotton patch around the bristles, and saturate the patch with Bore Scrubber. I then swab the bore back and fourth in short strokes through the barrel.
After that, I put a patch on the cleaning jag, saturate that with bore scrubber and swab the barrel. It will take out anything the brush made loose. Now about three dry patches and when you looks through the beautiful barrel it will sparkle.
After cleaning the hammer and breech plug with solvent and Q-tips. I re-grease the breech plug (actually I tape it, then grease it) and install that. This is where I put the trigger assembly back in place. I then silicon the hammer and slide that back in. Push the spring up it's backside, and lock it in place with the locking nut.
Wipe the barrel off nice and clean with some gun oil, and put it all back in the stock...
So keep some Q-tips, lots of patches, some Birchwood Casey Bore Scrubber, some isopropyl alcohol and winshield washer fluid, breech plug tape, breech plug grease, heavy duty auto silicon, and gun oil around and the rifle will clean up nice and fast.
I am sure I missed some things... but the rifle is a nice rifle to shoot.. and clean.
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I just wish mine would get here so I could clean it!!!!
like a kid waiting for Santa...
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Pretty much the same as Cayugad except I use some different cleaners (Butch's BP Bore Shine) and pipe cleaners.
Rife cleans up easy.Extremely easy tobreak down for cleaning. Be sure to get a brush with a long handle like the larger one in the Cabela's brush kit. Great for cleaning the action area and breechplug thread areas.
The only thing I have to make myself remember is to screw the action back together BEFORE reinstalling the barrelin the stock. That action cap is VERY close to the stock on my synthetics.
I was shooting my Ultra Mag today testing the Nikon Pro Staff scope. I was shooting 209 primers and the rifle actually fowled out. The breech slide area became so fowled, the striker or hammer would no longer come forward and there was one time I could not cock the rifle.
I broke the action down without removing the barrel, cleaned everything,and put it back together. I thought it was easier to do the White then the Black Diamond XR any day of the week. This is strange, thefowling,as I was shooting the Remington Kleenbore Primers.
Also there were a couple of times the rifle re-cocked the striker/hammer from the ignition of the charge. I have no idea why this would happen. I was shooting 90 grains of Goex 3f a wad and a 460 grain No Excuse Conical andhaving fun. I got the scope somewhat in. Then I pulled the scope. I then shot four rounds to check the iron sights and they were still right on the money. So after wiping the scope down, I put that back on to see how much it would change the POI and discovered it really did not change at all. Just kept throwing them in the same area.
It was not as much fun shooting in the rain, but after working all morning and early afternoon, I had to shoot a rifle. So since I was rained out of work, I figured I'd shoot instead. It's never too wet to shoot rifle.
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http://dwbs.proboards28.com/ if you have questions or concerns of any type you might want to check out that forum. Most everyone there is a White Rifle shooter. They can answer any question you might have and also give you some good hints about your rifle..
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I have the #11 hammer in now and the #11 cap. So there will be no more of that foolishness.
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Cleaning the Ultra Mag 97
