How Often to Clean The Barrel

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Talon1959

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Just curious.

I clean mine after 20-25 rounds with Hoppe's and Sweets, then Hoppe's and finally Rem Oil then a dry patch.
 
How often to clean the barrel

Depends. On my big game rifles, I fire one shot, go field dress the game and then if I'm in camp in Wyoming, I run a couple of Hoppes patches through the bore and then do a good job with Butch's when I get home.
On a prairie dog hunting trip, working with benchrest quality stainless barrels, I clean every 50 rounds with Butch's. I leave that bore wet, switch rifles and shoot 50 in that gun, dry patch the first rifle and clean the other barrel and leave it wet. I keep that up all day, and in the evenings I haul out my borescope and address any cleaning problems seen with the borescope. I may have to go after powder fouling with IOSSO bore past or get some stubborn copper with a really good soak with Boreshine. The borescope really drives what I do.
 
Kg 12

I don't know what the web site address is. KG INDUSTRIES Hayward WI. KG 12 puts all copper remover solvents to shame. It quickly gets the job done.
 
Barrel cleaning

Talon1959 said:
Just curious.

I clean mine after 20-25 rounds with Hoppe's and Sweets, then Hoppe's and finally Rem Oil then a dry patch.
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For match grade barrels, after 20 rds. Factory bores 20 rds. to 40 rds. Semi auto (Mini-14, HK, etc.) 50 to 75 rds. I use everything under the sun to clean, it depends on the barrel, powder, velocity, etc. A Hawkeye borescope tells me when I'm clean enough.
Chino69
 
Most of my benchrest stainless barrels will show a slight accuracy loss after about 20 rounds.

I shoot some barrels with moly and some bare copper. Results seem to be similar up to about 20 rounds. I suspect this is due to carbon build up as the barrels are tight about 8" from the end. I clean with a single Kroil patch and they shoot tight again.

With the moly barrels with a kroil patch about every 20 rounds they will go 100 rounds and still be shooting very tight.

After 20 rounds with bare copper I usually detail clean.

I track "clean" with my borescope and by group size.
 
Kroil is a penetrating oil.

It cuts the carbon fouling. Does not do much for copper.

I also use it to Oil my barrels.
 
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