Originally Posted by
Breechplug
He dropped it off today and I Cleaned it tonight. It was shot about 6 times total during the week of Dec 13th thru 21st. Now he uses T7 Pellets and mabey It's how I cleaned the Barrel so any feedback would be well absorbed. I only use Pyro Powder and Pellets so regular ol Dish Soap and Water with a quick Stroke of a Brass Brush usually does it, so that's what I used. Should I have used something different for the T7 Pellets??
Clean T7 as you do Pyro or BP... T7 is water soluable.
Anyway after the Soap and Water Clean and Rinse I did the No13 Bore Cleaner Patches followed by some Montana Extreme Bore Conditioner Patches,,,dirty, dirty, dirty, It would'nt come clean. All the Patches were rusty looking.
Just my opinion - skip that dang #13 it is nothing but white water & a bit of soap. Use regular old blue windex with ammonia - far better cleaner and the ammonia is a metal stripper besides the fact that it evaporates rapidly and carries water with it.
I looked down the Barrel and it was Shinny, but the Patches kept comming out Rusty. So I Brass Brushed it again with No13 Bore Cleaner, did the Soap and Water, Rinced it, did more No13 Patches and then the Montana Patches again......Rusty Patches...Finally after about 15 Patches it cleared up and was acceptable to me. So I gave the Barrel a good final 2 Patches coated good with the Montana Extreme BC and stuck a Dry patch in the end of the Muzzle and was done.
I know that the Barrel on the Triumph is Steel and Not Stainless, is this the reason for all the Rusty Patches and having it take so long to finally get the Barrel and Patches to come clean, or was it Me and not using the right (whatever) to clean the Barrel as He uses T7 Pellets?
Blued steel is a completly different animal than your stainless. It does not take much for unprotected steel in a bore to flash rust. Then when you put the XTreme BC it strips back to bear metal and try to get rid of the rust.
[quoteIf it's My Falut I can deal with it, if it's the Steel Barrel than I guess that's to be expected as it's not Stainless. If I cleaned My ACCURA all I'd have to do is run a Brush through it with Soap and Water, Rinse it, run a few patches of MX BC through it and it's spotless. I guess I got Spoiled having the SS Bergara Barrel on My ACCURA.
(BP)[/quote]
You have not even come close to hurting that barrel any, but it certainly is a different animal than stainless.
I would suggest that you pull the speed breech and run a saturated BC patch in and out of the bore and let it sit for a couple hours - horizontally - then run some dry patches. It will clean up just fine. Also remember when you run a brass brush in a stell bore you do cause a chemical reaction that will make you think the bore is still dirty. I never use a brass bush anymore. Never liked them in the first place I use a Montana X-Treme Nylon bore brush....
http://www.montanaxtreme.com/product...roduct=Brushes
But mostly i just use a cotton bore swab to scrub with...
The gun will be just fine!