cleaning rifle after shooting
 

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

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BTT

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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

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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

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

Tom

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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

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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.

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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:)

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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.

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

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I like Wipe out.....spray it in.....wait 1 hour.....jag with patches. The more you use it the easier it gets. I also run a brush (20 strokes) with Butch's bore shine every 3d time or so. Rifles shoot better and last longer when cleaned. Also, get a bore guide....Stoney point makes a good one for 23 bucks or so.....get at Midway or natches.....well worth the money. Regards, Rick.

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I don't clean my rifle after every time I shoot it .After I sight it in for the up coming season I leave it as is until the season's over ,then I clean it . If you ever notice after cleaning you'll show a little inconsistant shooting and the more you shoot it the better it will become .

nubo

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Once a year I remove the moly from the bore and re-apply it. Bullets are mollyed as well. Other than that, I just clean the action.

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disassemble, spray with cleaning solution, wipe down, run a boar snake through barrel twice, that thing cuts down your cleaning time a lot and works great. picked mine up at the local hunting good store. last but not least i wipe it down with a scentless lube oil. not to thick but just right. takes me about ten minutes to do a gun and i always clean after i shoot, especially the barrel.

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That is true with some but not all rifles.My own rifles shoot just as consistant with a clean barrel as with a fouled barrel.

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Stubblejumper-- I've come to the conclusion that what you said about fouled barrels vs. clean ones is possibly a result of the way they were broken in. What do you think?

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I can't say about the effect of breaking a barrel in vs clean bore accuracy,but all of my barrels are broken in by cleaning every shot for the first 5 to 10 shots then every three for the next 15 or so shots.Then again,all of my hunting rifles have high quality aftermarket barrels.

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To thoroughly clean a barrel I find it necessary to first use a good powder solvent such as Shooter's Choice, MPro-7, TM Solution, etc... followed by a good copper solvent such as Barnes CR-10, Wipeout,KG-12 or Montana Extreme 50BMGto namea few. However, I don't always clean for both types of fouling when I do clean. If the rifle is shooting okay I may not bother cleaning the copper fouling. Of course, if the rifle is shooting fine I guess it wouldn't really be necessary to cleanthe bore at all. I guess the best advice I could give is to shoot your rifleuntil you become familiar with it enough to know when and how often it needs a thorough cleaning. Personally, I find that I don't clean mine nearly as much as I used to. It's just not necessary.

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Go to:www.hartbarrels.com there is a section on how to clean your barrel,
beleive me these guys know there stuff!!

Good luck