cleaning rifle after shooting
 

what steps do you take when cleaning yourrifle after shooting it? details please. thanks Jeff

RE: cleaning rifle after shooting
 

BTT

RE: cleaning rifle after shooting
 

It really depends on what type of gun you have but this is how I clean my bolt rifle.

1. Remove the bolt
2. Use a bore guide
3. Send a couple of wet patches down the barrel
4. Let it sit for a couple of minutes
5. Scrub the barrel with a copper brush
6. Repeat steps 3 through 5
7. Run dry patches down the barrel till they come out nearly completely clean
8. Run a patch with a little bit of oil on it down the barrel.
9. Clean the action and the bolt

Tom

RE: cleaning rifle after shooting
 

fill the bath tub with 50% bleach and 50% amonia and just throw the whole gun in. let sit for 36 hours. works everytime:D:D:D

RE: cleaning rifle after shooting
 

If he has a wood stock he will ruin his stock. lol.

Tom

RE: cleaning rifle after shooting
 

yeah i dont think i will be doing the bath tub trick.. i was just wondering what you guys do as far is bore cleaning. like do ujust use a pawder cleaning through it and put some oil on it or do you use a coper solvent too. etc. i dont want to mess my gun up if i can help it

RE: cleaning rifle after shooting
 

I actually very seldom use a brush.Using a one piece dewey rod and a bore guide,I run two patches soaked with sweets 7.62 down the barrel about6 to8 strokes each.I then run a patch soaked with g-96 gun treatment down the barrel to neutralize the sweets and to provide some corrosion resistance.If I am not going to shoot the gun for awhile I leave the bore in this state,but I run a dry patch through the bore before firing the gun.The worst thing that you can do to a barrel is to use one of those multi piece aluminum rods as they flex badly and rub the inside of the bore.

RE: cleaning rifle after shooting
 

that some good advise for the most part but if a safty officer answered the first thing would be to point the muzzel in the safest direction
Rremove the cartraige
Observe the chamber
Verify the feed
Examine the bore
just a reminder, better safe than sorry:)

RE: cleaning rifle after shooting
 

I run a patch with oil down them every now and then. Most of my barrels are moly treated, so I don't ever use a brush or any type of solvent.

RE: cleaning rifle after shooting
 

molly treated? do you know are savages molly treated. and what is that exactly