grouping after a "clean"

[retromlc]

i was reading that you should give your barrel a clean after every couple of tins,Anyway i've stuck 2000 through it and as suggested I pult a cig filter then pellet then fired it,did it 3 times and now the grouping seems worse?Have I kocked it up?

[team tractor]

Give it 50 shots now to settle .

[B725]

Never cleaned one and never had a problem,shoot a few more and it should settle down.

[fenboy]

If your happy with an airguns accuracy then I would avoid cleaning the barrel altogether .

My current gun has had at least 3000 through it without a clean and its still accurate.

[chrisjpainter]

i was reading that you should give your barrel a clean after every couple of tins,Anyway i've stuck 2000 through it and as suggested I pult a cig filter then pellet then fired it,did it 3 times and now the grouping seems worse?Have I kocked it up?

Don't worry, the accuracy will come back. Some people will clean regularly, others only when the accuracy's failing. Once the gun barrel is lead lined again, it will shoot as it was before!

[Dekers]

There are some strange steel and plastic etc. pellets, but given the majority are lead, or lead alloy, and you don't get any powder residue with an air rifle then cleaning should not be an arduous or frequent task.

As always though with cleaning, if you are going to do it, do it properly.

A quick patch or brush is likely to raise fouling and leave the barrel worse than when you started.

If your barrel/crown is true and undamaged, then you should not need any shots to lead the barrel after a clean, it should perform perfectly from the first pellet, perhaps the second or third if you have not cleared all the solvents from the barrel properly.

Just the same, for most people you will not need to do it very often.

Edited June 9, 2013 by Dekers

[NIGHT SEARCHER]

Don't worry, the accuracy will come back. Some people will clean regularly, others only when the accuracy's failing. Once the gun barrel is lead lined again, it will shoot as it was before!

 

Plus + 1.

 

Just has Chris says.

 

I used to do a lot of FT and HFT shooting years ago.

And a lot of shooters would clean there barrels after every shoot.

Personally I used to clean my barrels 3 or 4 times a year and get a lot of black **** out.

It would take solvents a bore brush and a number of patches before it was properly clean.

I would then put 30 to 50 pellets through it to lead the barrel and it would be accurate again.

I don`t clean my barrels much these days.

I use RWS Superdomes and Crosman Premier Magnums.

I find the pellets very clean and I use Napier Power pellet lube.

If i put a patch through it comes out pretty clean after a 500 pellets through it.

 

 

PS. Chris how did you go on with your Super 10 regulator is it sorted.

Edited June 8, 2013 by NIGHT SEARCHER

[Ryan gun]

never cleaned my bsa and its had nearly 10,000 pellets through it with no problems.

atb ryan

[chrisjpainter]

PS. Chris how did you go on with your Super 10 regulator is it sorted.

 

No i didn't bother in the end! sold it off cheap to someone who was looking for a project to do up so didn't have the faff of doing it myself.

 

 

Some barrels seem to respond to cleaning better than others. My Air Wolf apparently benefits more from being kept clean than any of my other guns, although I've not had it long enough to really test that. That's what I was told by the previous owner. I zeroed it, cleaned and then shot it in and it took about thirty or forty shots to get it back to being accurate again.

Edited June 8, 2013 by chrisjpainter