stubbicatt
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So I usually clean "just enough" to feel comfortable putting the rifle in the safe.
Yesterday I decided to see how clean I can get things.
I started with Hoppe's #9 and a bronze Tipton brush, let it set for awhile, and dry patched. Then some Sweets. Oddly enough, no copper came out. Dry patch. Then Montana solvent of some sort, which smells of ammonia, so applied with nylon brush. Dry patch. Back to Hoppes #9, and dry patch.
During the dry patching after the second application of Hoppes #9, at 2 points about midway down the barrel I felt the resistance to the patch become noticeably easier, then harder, then easier, ending up harder to push out the muzzle.
At that point I was getting tired, so I put it away in the safe and began to wonder what that experience was?
So I thought I would ask, do you suppose that is the feeling of a clean bore, and the remainder of my bore remains less clean than those two spots? If so, I may have to go out again this evening and repeat the task to see whether I can get the entire bore to resist the patch so little.
If not the sensation of a clean bore, what do you suppose it was?
Yesterday I decided to see how clean I can get things.
I started with Hoppe's #9 and a bronze Tipton brush, let it set for awhile, and dry patched. Then some Sweets. Oddly enough, no copper came out. Dry patch. Then Montana solvent of some sort, which smells of ammonia, so applied with nylon brush. Dry patch. Back to Hoppes #9, and dry patch.
During the dry patching after the second application of Hoppes #9, at 2 points about midway down the barrel I felt the resistance to the patch become noticeably easier, then harder, then easier, ending up harder to push out the muzzle.
At that point I was getting tired, so I put it away in the safe and began to wonder what that experience was?
So I thought I would ask, do you suppose that is the feeling of a clean bore, and the remainder of my bore remains less clean than those two spots? If so, I may have to go out again this evening and repeat the task to see whether I can get the entire bore to resist the patch so little.
If not the sensation of a clean bore, what do you suppose it was?