Thread: cleaning air rifle barrels

Have had the felt pellets for years well before Anschutz marketed them. In my 177 I just used to fire 2 at time with Hoppes 9 followed up with a few to dry out. Having said that my 177 hardly ever gets cleaned.
Don't let oil get back into cylinder as already pointed out.

I actually have a 177 cleaning rod somewhere but no jag for it.

As kids we used to think it cool to put drops of 3 in 1 oil into the cylinder and fire the rifle. Nice bit of smoke and we thought it made the gun more powerful.
Somewhere I have a small bottle of, IIRC, silicon oil for lubricating, sparingly, air rifle cylinders.

More recently I have bought the VGF (Anschutz) felt pellets in 22 cal but also have the special cleaning rod tip for them. A lot of the smallbore guys use this system. The felt pellets come in 2 styles - standard felt and a more aggressive felt that appears to have minute copper strands in it.
I use this system to clean my 22 PCP (on the very rare occasions I clean it) and for cleaning some of my 22 rf rifles.