Originally Posted by
grizzly 2
OK, please hit me with some suggestions for proper cleaning with bh209 and maybe some websight for the stuff.
Another error I'd made was using a flexable glass? rod for a range rod. I always thought the barnes where way too hard to load but it was the rod flexing. I used an old wooden rod from the tc Hawken days and the barnes wasnt all that bad.
Suggest a solid alum rod for my ram rod, with which jag attached? I have an old spin jag on the flex rod that I'll keep just for cleaning.
I've never used any abrasive in the bore. I did use some 0000steel wool & oil in it this week though. What do you think?
Couple of thoughts I would suggest.... and these are suggestions only....
But, all honesty the first thing I would do is to boil the barrel out. By that I mean stick the muzzle on the rifle in a bucket and pour boiling water down the barrel. This action strips all the oil and crud off the metal. Plastic fouling will melt and loosen from the lands and grooves, some it will still stay in the bore but when you look down through you will see the flakes hanging in the bore. Cautions:.... if this is a carbon steel barrel (blued) - when you get it out of the water bath - get the bore dried as soon as possible, either using compressed air or several dry patches... and yes you minght see some 'flash rust' on the patches. If it is a stainless barrel it will not show the 'flash' rust. When dry and as the barrel is cooling - run your bronze brush with a good bore cleaner, I use either Butches Bore Shine og Barnes CR-10.
From there the next thing I would suggest is to obtain some JB's bore shine and run a 100 strokes of JB's... 4 patches - 25 stokes each... Oh and the patches will be a very bad black looking patch.
Here is a video that might help...
http://www.brownells.com/.aspx/lid=1...G_Bore_Pellets
After running the JB's get as much out as you can with some thing like patches soaked with BC Gun Scrubber... When they are coming out fairly clean... Back to the bucket and boiling water - repeating what you did before....
This time when the bore is rinsed, dried, and
HOT run some wet patches of a quality bore oil in the bore and let the heat of the bore suck it up. When the barrel is cool - then begin getting as muxh oil out as you can with dry patches. When you have finished that if you are going to shoot it again in the near future you are done... If it is going into storage run a damp patch of bore oil again put it together and put it away...
Ram-Rod....
Do you want another gun rod or a range rod type rod? I have a ton (well not a ton) of gun rods around here that I could send you if you want a loading/cleaning jag installed I can do that also... let me know.