motty Posted June 11, 2016 Report Share Posted June 11, 2016 I mostly put plastic wads through my .410 hushpower. I've been trying to get 7s but supply of .410 cartridges around here is limited. Plaswads are no good as the Hushpower specifies fibre. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenlivet Posted June 11, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2016 I mostly put plastic wads through my .410 hushpower.The full barrel version or the screw on which I have? The bumph with the screw on stipulates fibre but if plastic works so much the better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motty Posted June 11, 2016 Report Share Posted June 11, 2016 The full barrel version or the screw on which I have? The bumph with the screw on stipulates fibre but if plastic works so much the better. No, it is the mossberg pump, but that is supposed to be fibre only. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenlivet Posted June 11, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2016 No, it is the mossberg pump, but that is supposed to be fibre only. I'll give it a try when I've shot my 250 fibre squirrels Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buze Posted June 15, 2016 Report Share Posted June 15, 2016 So, I did some polishing. I tool a 20ga wire brush, wrapped it in 0000 whool, mounted it on a brass rod. Put some T-cut polishing cream (Halford) mixed with a little bit of oil in the barrels, and mounted the brass rod on my bosh driver/drill... Just enough friction to feel some resistance in the motor, but not enough to 'strain' it. Did about 50 in/out of the brush in both barrels, cleaned it and had a look; it's a LOT more polished than it was. The top barrel is mirror like, and the bottom one a lot better than before I feel. Went shooting; did about 150 birds this afternoon, and had a look at the barrels inside afterward. It felt a LOT cleaner than before (was shooting 27g fibre Hull). Also, when I added bore cleaner fluid to the barrels, it 'ran' down the barrels immediately and pretty quickly; it's clearly a lot smoother in there -- it used to 'ooze' down a lot slower. Cleanup was a lot easier already; normally I have to use quite a few (4+) passes of the tissues to remove the residues after the bore cleaner+wire brush; this time around, the cloth was almost clean after the second pass.... So overall, very good result. Now that I 'see' the tiny defects in the barrels, I know that I have a bit more polishing to do, so I'll have another pass at it in a little while; but it /does/ work... If you do that, make sure to pass another cloth with gun oil into the barrels to seal it; removing material and brushing metal changes the surface properties considerably, and it needs sealing until it stabilises; otherwise, it might just start rusting quicker than it might have done before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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