Ok so I'm headed down a rabbit trail here, fair warning. I'm getting back into shooting my 22LR, kinda getting back to the basics and just having some fun. Trying to figure out often and how deep to clean the barrel.
I have been shooting bigger calibers mainly 223, 30-06, and 9mm lately. In all 3 of these I have found that my cleaning method of 3 passes with a lightly oiled bore snake was inadequate and have had to deep clean some barrels.
I watched this video from brownells https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWkawPtf-38 which basically says you don't need to clean a 22 barrel just the action. My 22 is a bolt gun so it shouldn't really have any issues there.
I read is several forums that the bench rest 22lr guys clean all the time, a wet patch followed by dry patches then oil every couple cards. They a deep clean every 50-100rnds from what I am seeing using such things as shooters choice lead remover and kroil among other things.
Why is there such a disparity, what do you think the guns actually need? I'm torn, I never really had any issues with the bore snake method. I'm just wondering if I'm giving up something or neglecting the barrel by not cleaning deeper.
I have been shooting bigger calibers mainly 223, 30-06, and 9mm lately. In all 3 of these I have found that my cleaning method of 3 passes with a lightly oiled bore snake was inadequate and have had to deep clean some barrels.
I watched this video from brownells https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWkawPtf-38 which basically says you don't need to clean a 22 barrel just the action. My 22 is a bolt gun so it shouldn't really have any issues there.
I read is several forums that the bench rest 22lr guys clean all the time, a wet patch followed by dry patches then oil every couple cards. They a deep clean every 50-100rnds from what I am seeing using such things as shooters choice lead remover and kroil among other things.
Why is there such a disparity, what do you think the guns actually need? I'm torn, I never really had any issues with the bore snake method. I'm just wondering if I'm giving up something or neglecting the barrel by not cleaning deeper.