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Old 09-01-2008, 06:16 PM
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Remnard
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Default RE: When is it clean?

The most important thing about cleaning a gun comes from breaking it in. If you look at a magnified bore on a factory gun it will look like thousands of jagged edges. These edges all catch fouling, copper, lead, etc. Custom barrels have typically been lapped and are free of these. The best way is to start fresh if you have a gun that has been fired and possibly abused.

Clean gun with sweets or Hoppes ora good copper solvent

Then clean it with JB Bore paste

shoot the gun

after each round run a brush through the barrel several times

after ten rounds clean again with sweets or other solvent

fire another 10 rounds

fire another ten rounds and run brush through after each round

clean thoroughly with sweets or hoppes

use the JB bore paste again

fire a fouling shot

then fire a 3 shot group for accuracy

some good info here:
http://www.6mmbr.com/borebrushing.html

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