cleaning rifle after shooting
12-28-2005, 09:17 AM
#3
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Michigan
Posts: 3,329
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
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
12-28-2005, 02:42 PM
#6
Typical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: jacksonville illinois USA
Posts: 700
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
12-28-2005, 03:11 PM
#7
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: fort mcmurray alberta canada
Posts: 5,667
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.
12-28-2005, 07:45 PM
#8
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Nova Scotia Canada
Posts: 211
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
Rremove the cartraige
Observe the chamber
Verify the feed
Examine the bore
just a reminder, better safe than sorry
