How Do You Apply Solvent To Your Bore?

[<<Genesis93>>]

There are so many opinions on cleaning that no matter what you do someone will think its wrong.

My advice is don't be too rough. The barrel is tough, but the vulnerable part is the rifling, especially at the crown. You want the rifling to stay defined, and not interrupt it at the crown, as this will have an impact on your accuracy (damage the rifling where the bullet exits and you can destabilise the bullets on exit).

Whatever your cleaning regime, make sure all solvent is gone afterwards and the surfaces have a light coat of oil. Other than this, how best to clean is a matter of opinion, there is no clear and definite right way.

and patch out the barrel before shooting.... remove all oil residue as far as possible. Particularly the chamber which must be oil free.

[Oldbloke]

How can we talk so much about such a basic thing?

[Title_II]

How can we talk so much about such a basic thing?

It beats doing the dishes

[Oldbloke]

How can we talk so much about such a basic thing?

It beats doing the dishes

I just did them too.

[Apollo]

How can we talk so much about such a basic thing?

Because so many people have so many different ideas and some of them are just down right destructive to your pride n joy.

The worst I have seen was a friend using a cleaning rod like he was trying to match the velocity of his bullets back n forth and beat some sprint record of how many cycles in a second. Should have heard the noise as he hit the crown hard on the way back into the bore. Thank heaven he saw the light at the end of the tunnel.

I just stay away from ammonia based cleaning products and bronze brushes. Lots of chemicals around, some work better than others.

Some barrels don't like to be spotless clean to shoot the best accuracy in my experience.

[Lyam]

I use The Force to levitate the solvent in.

Easier on the bore than a brush