How do you like em? Squeaky clean or just a bit of gray?

[JAMz]

When cleaning your barrel, do you go for a squeaky clean or do you stop we its almost clean? I remember that the folks at Straight Shooters used to advise not to get them super clean but instead to stop when you get a light gray patch. How do you do it?

 

[Odoyle]

Clean it like how you wipe your butt.

 

[BeeGee11]

Clean it like how you wipe your butt.

Hard enough to put your finger through? 

 

[Nelson86m]

Best thing I have read all day, Thankyou

 

[JAMz]

Dry Wet Dry?

 

[biohazardman]

I don't worry about the grey just the little lead flakes when they stop so do I.

 

[JohnnyPDX]

Squeaky clean. Patch returns white.

 

[Guest]

I'll get my wife to read this thead as a wink and a nod.

 

[KWK]

Clean it like how you wipe your butt.

With a corn cob?

 

[Odoyle]

HMMM never imagined that one...

ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS ask for extra ketchup and NAPKINS at the drive through window as they hand you your bags to add extras in front if you.

Ask you how many you say as many as they can spare you are heavy ketchup and NAPKINS user. (Just short of them actually charging you extra for it)

They wipe pretty good first 2 dry crumpled then followed by real almost dripping wet (from the sink tap! Spit is too slippery!) then followed by 2 to 3 more dry ones. Stick one in the crack after that just in case.

 

[Ripper]

If you wipe your butt and it is gray, you might want to change your diet.

 

[triggertreat]

I go for super clean like a mirror finish. I find with the smooth FX liners that it only takes a few shots to season them again. I also like doing this for a reference point. I also find that lubing slugs is the best way to go right after cleaning. I also follow up periodically with a brushless BoreSnake to extend the cleaning routine. It's a little different routine though with the non FX barrels I have that do better with just a brushless BoreSnake ran through them periodically. 

 

[Glenroiland]

When cleaning your barrel, do you go for a squeaky clean or do you stop we its almost clean? I remember that the folks at Straight Shooters used to advise not to get them super clean but instead to stop when you get a light gray patch. How do you do it?

I have never cleaned my airgun barrels. Figure I'd do it if accuracy and/or velocity became affected. One gun has well over 12,000 rounds with no cleaning, and the others are all well over 6,000 rounds each.



My firearms are a different story.....

 

[egd]

That's why I started shooting airguns-I read you didn't have to clean them.

 

[KWK]

HMMM never imagined that one...

ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS ask for extra ketchup and NAPKINS at the drive through window as they hand you your bags to add extras in front if you.

Ask you how many you say as many as they can spare you are heavy ketchup and NAPKINS user. (Just short of them actually charging you extra for it)

They wipe pretty good first 2 dry crumpled then followed by real almost dripping wet (from the sink tap! Spit is too slippery!) then followed by 2 to 3 more dry ones. Stick one in the crack after that just in case.

In the old days you found a basket of corn cobs and a bucket of lime in the outhouse. True

 

[Mossonarock]

In the old days you found a basket of corn cobs and a bucket of lime in the outhouse. True

And then after people started getting electricity, you could find an electric corn cob: https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1967-electric-toilet-tissue-electric-435016557

 

[Odoyle]

Speaking of corn cobs...

https://youtu.be/Pk1s45JTtmo

https://youtu.be/CO8Uszop5GU

 

[Clancy]

Clean it like how you wipe your butt.

I don't think flossing with an old towel will work on a gun barrel!

 

[jarmstrong]

I don't remember the last time I cleaned my PCP barrels,, a couple of years, still shoot spot on, but if my accuracy goes south, I will get out the cleaning kit,,, BUT the bung hole needs to be cleaned after every outing

corn cobs,, red ones are for wiping and white ones are for checking to see if you need to use another red one