Palladan44
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As the decades roll by, I use less and less cleaning products. My bottle of Hoppe's is at least 15 years old and still half full. What im trying to say is.......I don't clean my guns very often.
I care about preventing rust and corrosion and religiously wipe down iron before storing it in the safe long term, and oil moving parts. If an action, slide, frame, crane, or cylinder gets gritty...I wipe it out to get some of it out of there.
I will clean a bore about once a year.....if it's say a deer rifle that sees a few shots a year to sight in and go in the woods.
I will wipe out the action of an AR but rarely clean the barrel.
My glocks which I use for carry get wiped out periodically, but I almost never clean out the barrels.
Revolvers I will clean if I see leading in the barrel, which on occasion can be quite prominent, but sometimes I'll save some hot jacketed ammo for the end of the range session and sometimes there's will clean out that lead in a hurry.
How does barrel cleanliness effect accuracy?
It's really the only factor I could be convinced to clean more often. At what point does copper fouling occur and become an issue? I do see streaks of copper coloring (or green oxidized coloring) in some of the barrels..... do I need to worry? Does copper fouling build up over longer periods of time and begin to become a problem? By not cleaning pistols or Rifles often,can I expect a slow deterioration in accuracy over time due to copper fouling buildup?
I shoot often, but havnt really observed accuracy differences in clean barrels vs. Dirty ones except in Rifles at longer ranges.
Any observations?
I care about preventing rust and corrosion and religiously wipe down iron before storing it in the safe long term, and oil moving parts. If an action, slide, frame, crane, or cylinder gets gritty...I wipe it out to get some of it out of there.
I will clean a bore about once a year.....if it's say a deer rifle that sees a few shots a year to sight in and go in the woods.
I will wipe out the action of an AR but rarely clean the barrel.
My glocks which I use for carry get wiped out periodically, but I almost never clean out the barrels.
Revolvers I will clean if I see leading in the barrel, which on occasion can be quite prominent, but sometimes I'll save some hot jacketed ammo for the end of the range session and sometimes there's will clean out that lead in a hurry.
How does barrel cleanliness effect accuracy?
It's really the only factor I could be convinced to clean more often. At what point does copper fouling occur and become an issue? I do see streaks of copper coloring (or green oxidized coloring) in some of the barrels..... do I need to worry? Does copper fouling build up over longer periods of time and begin to become a problem? By not cleaning pistols or Rifles often,can I expect a slow deterioration in accuracy over time due to copper fouling buildup?
I shoot often, but havnt really observed accuracy differences in clean barrels vs. Dirty ones except in Rifles at longer ranges.
Any observations?