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Johnny Peppers · 05-31-2001, 09:20 AM

A .22 pistol does not leave the residue in a bore that a center fire weapon does. It will leave small amounts of lead and fouling from the powder and primer which should be cleaned. There is no such thing as wearing out a bore from proper cleaning. Bores have been damaged from improper cleaning, and probably the biggest culprit is the jointed cleaning rods. Buy a proper fitting one piece rod, and make a habit of wiping the rod each time it is to be inserted in the bore. Do not use the loop style patch holders. Use only the jag and let the patch fall off after it is pushed through the bore. Those that worry about ruining a bore by running a bronze brush down it should stop and consider the fact that the brush is traveling at maybe 2fps while a bullet is traveling at anywhere from 1000 up to 4000fps with an extremely hot fire under many thousands pounds of pressure. Benchrest shooters clean their bore religiously as they know that the build up of metal and carbon fouling affects accuracy to a large extent on a rifle that is expected to shoot tiny one hole groups.

Every year my local gunshop has several rifle in large magnum calibers brought in to be rebarreled as the rifle will no longer shoot good groups and the owner considers it "worn out". In virtually all cases the barrels are fouled terribly, and after several passes with JB bore paste, which is a mild abrasive, the rifles again shoot as they did when new.

05-31-2001, 09:20 AM	#13
Johnny Peppers User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Calion, Arkansas Posts: 1,042 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: OT - cleaning bores of target pistols A .22 pistol does not leave the residue in a bore that a center fire weapon does. It will leave small amounts of lead and fouling from the powder and primer which should be cleaned. There is no such thing as wearing out a bore from proper cleaning. Bores have been damaged from improper cleaning, and probably the biggest culprit is the jointed cleaning rods. Buy a proper fitting one piece rod, and make a habit of wiping the rod each time it is to be inserted in the bore. Do not use the loop style patch holders. Use only the jag and let the patch fall off after it is pushed through the bore. Those that worry about ruining a bore by running a bronze brush down it should stop and consider the fact that the brush is traveling at maybe 2fps while a bullet is traveling at anywhere from 1000 up to 4000fps with an extremely hot fire under many thousands pounds of pressure. Benchrest shooters clean their bore religiously as they know that the build up of metal and carbon fouling affects accuracy to a large extent on a rifle that is expected to shoot tiny one hole groups. Every year my local gunshop has several rifle in large magnum calibers brought in to be rebarreled as the rifle will no longer shoot good groups and the owner considers it "worn out". In virtually all cases the barrels are fouled terribly, and after several passes with JB bore paste, which is a mild abrasive, the rifles again shoot as they did when new.