Re:silicone coating
If you use silicone oil to pretreat, you’ll most likely create a silicone mist when you shoot. This is bad for your lungs. Here’s a link:
https://www.rimfirecentral.com/forums/showpost.php?p=5471635&postcount=9
Using Dot 5 silicone oil is probably an even worse idea. Lots of weird additives in car stuff.
To put it perspective, the dude in the above link would rather deal with the DIP/lead-fricking-acetate than aerosolized silicone.
I’d just tumble the baffles longer.
I’ve seen how lung damage from doing stupid shit (smoking) slowly adds up and ruins a life. It’s not like the person in question was fine and then suddenly her lungs seized up at 78 and she died within months. Nope, not a “gotta-die-from-sumpthing” and “all-deaths-are-equal” scenario.
She could barely walk across the kitchen. She couldn’t walk up steps or play with her grandkids for
15 years. It was sad to see.