Oxidized pellets

[Fischer]

There's another way I look at it which works:

A lot of guys and gals run rods or worms or patches or fish lines with patches up or down their air rifle bores.

I never ever ran a rod or pulled a bore snake or bore worm or fish line to clean any air rifle I've ever owned. First thing I do is SHOOT it with the PELLET of MY choice and make sure it works properly. 

Then I just change pellets old and new and light or heavy with the rifle and get to know where it will send every one of those "critter" pellets old and new.

But to CLEAN the bore of MY rifles with an insertion of anything else but a pellet is not sound. We ruin guns by overcleaning them especially in the bore or heart of the rifle.

 

[Duckfish]

Wow, lots of odd suggestions on a g sites.

 

[Guest]

Wow, lots of odd suggestions on a g sites.

Well let's see. The suggestions I've seen in this thread are:

1) Clean oxidized pellets.

2) Don't clean oxidized pellets.

3) We over clean our barrels which leads to damage.

The answers are as follows:

1) Clean them if it makes you feel better about things. Lubing them would probably be a healthy idea. Powdered lead is powdered lead.

2) Don't clean them if you don't want too. You won't be able to tell the difference in the shooting. It is still probably a good idea to lube them to keep down lead dust.

3) We generally DO over clean our barrels but if you don't use abrasives and you don't use steel cleaning rods as long as you use a rod guide or a pull through you probably won't ever damage good steel.

All of these answers are supported by many hundreds of thousands of man years of shooting, are common knowledge in the industry, and are sound advice.

I do hope that is helpful.

 

[tjmac]

Recycling them is certainly the easiest. Definitely what I do. That said, other than pellets I have picked up from others, the pellets I buy new never seem to have time to get oxidized.