Robert Hairless
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My own observation is that the bore gets clean whenever the person doing the cleaning decides to stop.
TO SM:
Question, are you saying that cleaning the bore is unnecessary or undesirable? I caught the part about cleaning the moving parts being more important but don't you think it's hard on the gun to let it get that nasty?
... Bronze brush, copper jacketed bullets letting it them soak in Hoppe's right now
BTW according to the manual that came W/ my M-16 CLP/Breakfree will continue to draw carbon from the "pores" of the metal after you clean it ( of course the also told me I'd have free medical for life) any truth to that?
Cleaning the Bore
Since modern ammunition burns very clean-
ly, with normal use it is not necessary to
clean the bore of your rifle. However, if it gets
wet, or if any foreign material gets into the
action or barrel, cleaning as described below
is recommended.
well, for the most part. .22's have very well lubricated bullets, and drive down the barrel at good velocity and pressure.Straight from Marlins manual .22/.17 edition page 5 free to download from there website
How about shooting surplus, though? I worry about the corrosive salts getting trapped under layers of carbon fouling and copper, so it seems to make sense to try a little harder to avoid that. Then again, the guy on Box o' Truth cleans milsurps with not much more than Windex and calls it a day, right?
A clean gun is an anomoly. A gun is only clean for one shot; for all other shots it's in some state other than clean. It runs differently than a dirty gun, in many cases.What I'm not getting is are you saying that cleaning the gun is a waste of time (except for the actual moving parts) or are you saying it's flat out bad for the gun?