Thread: Barrel cleaning

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

FFS...JUST LIKE CHRONICGRAPHS have ruined many a great load...borescopes have made many folks paranoid about how well they clean a rifle.... I run three or four patches with breakfree clp on it...then a couple of dry patches then another clp and call it done...once every 100 or so shots ,the barrel gets copper brush treatment and then same as before.....seems to work,my .270w and my .223 have only ever had this treatment and neither dropped the accuracy in the slightest with 25 plus years of the same treatment.

You’re not wrong about the bore scope, mates .264 Winchester has fire cracking pretty much the entire length of the barrel and some of the rifling nearly gone in places, still shoots these groups.