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i must confess i don't clean my guns very often. certainly not after every use. with modern powders and shotcups in our loads is there much of a danger for vintage gun bores getting pitted by lack of cleaning?
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Depends on climate/environment where you are. Fouling is hygroscopic. If you don't have time for a thorough cleaning consider something like a boresnake or ticotool. Follow with one pass with something like CLP - heck, even WD. Whole drill takes less than 5 minutes...........per gun.
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Combine hyperopia with a dead battery in the borelight and you get my buddy who has cleaned his BT99 for five years with a WD-40 soaked patch. He says the bore "looks" clean. I prefer it to be clean; that means dissolving/mechanically removing the plastic as well as a couple of stray flakes of powder and a smudge of smoke. ITM'sO, as time goes by, bad things happen under that plastic.
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I have a trap shooting friend that never cleans his barrel. More stuff in the choke area than you can believe. I guess thats what a
SO-3 pizza gun deserves.
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"ITM'sO"? Golly, I sure hope we don't start using text messaging stuff over on this board--most of us are way too old to learn new tricks, let alone a new language..... 
John McCain is my war hero.
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I wonder what's happening pressure wise in the SO3 Beretta referenced in the above post?
Having spent countless hours overseeing shooting at my local range I can certainly testify to the end result of not regularly maintaining firearms.At best you'll end up with an erratic performing firearm at worst it will, in all likelyhood, become dangerous.
I've had users show up on the range with a brand new semi-auto out of the box and manage to lock it up with the first magazine. Of course none of them bothered to read the users manual or remove the factory applied grease before using the gun.
I've often wondered how many firearms failures are linked to poor maintainence?
Jim
Last edited by italiansxs; 03/18/08 11:07 PM.
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How bout doublegunspeak, Joe? SNST, BTFE, SLNE, etc. and my favorite plaint altho not yet used in abbreviated form: SBLNW (Spanish boxlock not working %#@)$*). Fact is, a few months back, we had a bad outbreak of HTML here--lot of stuff in bold yellow and red, and would you believe, there are guys here who know both when to italicize and also how. And have you checked out multiple embedded quotes; it's like watching Norman Rockwell paint himself looking in the mirror. Clean them guns; can't hurt.
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Scrub those smoothbores all you want, but for those track drivin' 22 rifles - subsonics and a soft patch only.
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Italiansxs,....I should mention that I got very lucky once because of poor mainenance!...but only once
Was at a gun show a few years ago, someone with more money than brains had just sold two guns to one of the dealers,..one of them was an S03, with light surface rust and badly pitted bbls, according to the guy the owner never bothered to clean the gun at all. I was offered the gun at a very reasonable price,..actually very cheap! he told me I could have the bbls honed out and pitts removed but it would be too expensive, hence the price!
I bought the gun,..took it home, removed the surface rust,.....when I started to clean the bbls I realized they were chrome lined,.... VOILA! new S03
CJ
The taste of poor quality lingers long after the cheap price is forgotten.........
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There are lots of ways to clean shotgun bores. Two of the poorest
are with Tico Tools or Bore Snakes. Either one might make the dirty bore look smooth but will not likely be really clean. A simple way that works very effectively for me is an aluminum cleaning rod, chucked in a variable speed electric drill, a stiff bronze bore brush wrapped with 00-0000 steel wool. Shoot a bit of your favorite bore cleaner down the bore, run the drill-powered brush in and out slowly, one time, and you're done. Push a patch through each hole with your favorite preservative on it and you've got a completely clean and rust-protected bore. Takes about the same time as it took me to type this.
Helpful hints: Removing the cleaning rod handle makes it easier to chuck the rod into the drill motor. Clamping the barrel lump into a padded vise makes the job easier still.
Does anyone else ever wonder why choke tubes collect plastic far more than fixed chokes do? Anyone know why?
> Jim Legg <
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