Finally got rid of the copper and carbon...

[wheelguner]

The Teslong Bore Scopes are great tools. I have their 21" Rigid model. I used it without the 90 deg mirror to record the cylinder timing of a friends 22lr revolver that was spitting lead badly. It was easy to find out which chambers were out of time and check timing again after each adjustment to the Cylinder Star until I got the timing perfect.

[CJW]

Stinky Coyote::::::

I am really in your camp, I have a Palma bbl that I shot in competition & practice for over 1.5 years without cleanings,
shooting 155 SMKs , we would order the bullets 5K at a time so Sierra would run them off the same machine…..

The last 4 or 5 months I thought about cleaning it, but it was shooting so well I was afraid to touch it.

I don’t shoot a lot of paper but I do shoot a lot of steel…. I see guys cleaning the living heck out of their gun for hours after firing 30 shots……hard for me to understand.

I shoot a Glock 34G5 with some of my real white trash brothers from the University of GA, every Thursday night , 52 weeks a year. The barrel has not ever been cleaned.

Each to his own, if it gives you a settled mind do it.


I think the Glock manual says that it voids the warranty if any solvent or a patch is used in the bbl.

[rickt300]

This may be a bad idea but I have been doing it for years. My break in is shoot the barrel hot and when done shooting clean it with Turtle wax Chrome polish on a tight patch. Run the same patch in and out until it starts getting harder to push through the barrel and then clean it out with clean patches. This removes any fouling and leaves the bore bright. I had a Ruger in 257 Roberts that had maybe the worst barrel I had ever owned and doing this 3 or 4 times made it into a nice shooting barrel that stays clean. I stop using it when satisfactory results are reached. And I do it only on barrels that foul badly to start with.