O.K. now that I have my FN-FAL I figured I would call the manufacturer and get the straight on "lapping the barrel".
Said fire one round at a time, and after each round, run a bore brush and a patch with Shooters Choice Copper Solvent through the barrel. Do this ten times.
The individual said to make it easier on myself, take off the upper receiver cover, make sure the bolt was all the way forward and than fire the second round, clean, and continue until I reached the ten round marker.
Than I was to take another ten rounds and do the same thing, only this time, run the barrel every two rounds.
After I had done this, the rifle would be considered officially "lapped".
Also reminded me to either get some Shooters Choice Powder solvent or some diesel to use on the gas piston than scrub.
Question: Does this sound A.O.K.? With any of my other rifles, handguns, shotguns, I usually just took stripped them down when I first got them, cleaned and lubricated them with CLP, may be applied a little Tetra Grease, fired ~10-30 rounds through it than came home and cleaned them again with a mixture of CLP, and maybe some "Gun Scrubber".
Now I've got the heebie jeebies about "copper build up" in my rifles.
Thinking about using some Copper Solvent on the rest of my rifles and pistols.
Whadya think? Paranoid?
Never this complicated in the Army.
Said fire one round at a time, and after each round, run a bore brush and a patch with Shooters Choice Copper Solvent through the barrel. Do this ten times.
The individual said to make it easier on myself, take off the upper receiver cover, make sure the bolt was all the way forward and than fire the second round, clean, and continue until I reached the ten round marker.
Than I was to take another ten rounds and do the same thing, only this time, run the barrel every two rounds.
After I had done this, the rifle would be considered officially "lapped".
Also reminded me to either get some Shooters Choice Powder solvent or some diesel to use on the gas piston than scrub.
Question: Does this sound A.O.K.? With any of my other rifles, handguns, shotguns, I usually just took stripped them down when I first got them, cleaned and lubricated them with CLP, may be applied a little Tetra Grease, fired ~10-30 rounds through it than came home and cleaned them again with a mixture of CLP, and maybe some "Gun Scrubber".
Now I've got the heebie jeebies about "copper build up" in my rifles.
Thinking about using some Copper Solvent on the rest of my rifles and pistols.
Whadya think? Paranoid?
Never this complicated in the Army.