"davemac18"
"AirSupply"I can vouch for the VFG system of cleaning having used it for several years and been very happy with it. As a side note I also have the patch work cleaning kit. You can take the VFG cleaning felts and there blue cleaning paste and pull it through the barrel with the patch worm cord. This isn’t as good as using the rod but does a good job if you not want to remove the barrel to clean it.
The best way to buy there felts is to look on eBay for the bulk 500 felt packs. They are so much cheaper to buy this way.
The paste lasts forever. You only need a tiny bit on the felts to get a good result
They are great products. Thanks for sharing Gav.
how often do you use that system and on what type of gun, I am thinking the higher fps to more prone to needing it??
I pull the VFG felts through around every 100shots or so. It’s a LW polygon barrel with choke. Shooting .25 jsb King Heavies at 890ish fps. I copied the following from Yarrah I’m sure he won’t mind if I repost it.
He was asked the same question.
Depends on the degree of accuracy you accept or expect.
All the top benchrest competitors I shoot with, to World Ch., level, clean their barrels, most after each card (25 shots to count plus sighters). Some actually shoot a couple of felt pellets through during a card after 15 shots or so. … If the barrels are kept clean there is generally no need to shoot a warm-up pellet unless cleaning oil is left in the barrel.
Both pull-thoughs and rods with patches, can be seen in use at serious competitions. They do a more thorough job than felt pellets but are not practical for use during a card at the bench.
Providing that clean high quality pellets are used, which have no loose lead or swarf/foil attached, the very low powered rifles, like R7s or Olympic 10 m rifles, probably need less cleaning and use of felt pellets .
For those who don’t shoot benchrest, or who don’t chase moa at 100 yd or further, then other shooting variables, hold, trigger control etc, would obscure the difference that fastidious cleaning may induce. … To each his own. Coffee can plinkers and most short range hunters may not notice any benefit.
Kind regards, Harry.