This should be fun. This is my view of the people who say you should throw your bore scope in the thrash
I find my Teslong very handy for evaluating the effectiveness of my cleaning and the state of the bore prior to and after cleaning. For this, it serves a good purpose. Now, one needs to have the self-control to not try to scrub the damn thing to total bare metal like when it was new...particularly with abrasives or getting a case of the vapors about normal fire cracking.
I have found both Patch Out and Bore Tech products to be very good. But I do prefer Bore Tech and have their Eliminator (both carbon and copper), Carbon Remover (which also works pretty dang good on suppressor baffles), and Copper Remover. I use Eliminator mostly....it just works.
I simply follow the directions on the bottle for the most part. Wet patches down the bore, wet nylon brush (very occassionally I've used a bronze brush to no ill effects...but don't fucking chuck in a drill, right? haha). Then wet patches and let it sit for 5 minutes. Patch dry...I probably dry patch more than many as to me if the patch is still coming out with carbon marks and any damp spots at all, I just shove more patches down the bore. I stop when they come out clean. WTF...patches are cheap, yeah?
A couple of "once in a while" things I do:
1. I follow
@Frank Green 's (Bartlein barrels guy who is kind enough to post here fairly often) advise on using abrasives. I do so only very occasionally and use Rem 40X (very mild) or JB Bore Compound (blue label....NOT the Bore Bright). I wrap a patch around a Parker Hale style jag, embed some abrasives, and give it 10-15 swipes down and back with emphasis on the area nearer the throat. You do want to prevent the jag from leaving the end of the muzzle....few ways to do this. Back the muzzle up against a wall if you don't care for your walls or....I have a thread protector that I put a small metal slug (really some epoxied together washers). I'm sure there are other ways.
2. I use the Teslong to look at the area just past where the neck of the cartridge ends for possible carbon ring. I do on occasion stuff a mop in there with Bore Tech Carbon Remover and let it sit. Then scrub with nylon (or bronze) brush and patch dry.
I was cleaning my 6.5 CM's every 150 rounds or so but have tried to adopt Mr. Green's practice of cleaning when I return from the range. Doing so regularly makes cleaning quick and easy before the carbon gets baked on. But, I'm not 100% rigorous about this....cause I'm lazy too! haha
With 500 rounds down the barrel, I would think you would need a pretty rigorous cleaning then maintain it.
Cleaning regime seems to be a very personal decision and people have very different views on what is sufficient. This is just what I do.
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