So my Maverick have not been the best of ball players with me, and i have tried a range of pellets and speeds kind words and loving strokes of the rifle, ASO.
So today as darkness fell and i got a sudden rare burst of energy i figured why not feel up my barrel ( pushing a pellet thru it ) and maybe polish it.
So i clean the barrel vigorously and then put a JSB heavy pellet in the breech end and gently pushed it forward, and to my surprise the first 50% of the 600 mm long barrel there was hardly any resistance, so little in fact that i wondered if the pellet was able to free fall with that little friction.
Then the pellet got a little tighter for the rest of the way sort of like half of the barrel is choked, and there was no added friction towards the end where i would expect a choke to be.
So i folded over some of the little cleaning patches i have 2 times to a little square 1/4 the size of the original patch, the applied a little polishing paste to the mount of the barrel and then pushed the patch in with a tight fit, i repeated this 2 more times so i had a total of 3 patches in there + polishing compound in between, and all this i then proceeded to push back and forth a number of times focusing on the front 1/2 of the barrel, using my trusty old 3 mm solid carbon fiber rod i like better than the steel / brass cleaning rod i also have.
The feel of it all ( pushing a pellet thru ) are now more uniform with a slight tightening / increased friction at the last 1/2 inch or so ( under 1 " for sure )
As weather seem to be manageable on Sunday at least in regard to temperatures, so i will have to go test a little to see if this helped, and i will also see if i can get my M8 to print out this months AGN shooting challenge and give that a try for the first time.
On a airgun addict side note, it seem like AGT Vulcan 3 rifles will land in Denmark in a couple of weeks, by then my piggy bank are not 100 % ready to carry such a load but it is damn close and the remainder can be picked up by my not too bad ( at the moment ) bank account.
So today as darkness fell and i got a sudden rare burst of energy i figured why not feel up my barrel ( pushing a pellet thru it ) and maybe polish it.
So i clean the barrel vigorously and then put a JSB heavy pellet in the breech end and gently pushed it forward, and to my surprise the first 50% of the 600 mm long barrel there was hardly any resistance, so little in fact that i wondered if the pellet was able to free fall with that little friction.
Then the pellet got a little tighter for the rest of the way sort of like half of the barrel is choked, and there was no added friction towards the end where i would expect a choke to be.
So i folded over some of the little cleaning patches i have 2 times to a little square 1/4 the size of the original patch, the applied a little polishing paste to the mount of the barrel and then pushed the patch in with a tight fit, i repeated this 2 more times so i had a total of 3 patches in there + polishing compound in between, and all this i then proceeded to push back and forth a number of times focusing on the front 1/2 of the barrel, using my trusty old 3 mm solid carbon fiber rod i like better than the steel / brass cleaning rod i also have.
The feel of it all ( pushing a pellet thru ) are now more uniform with a slight tightening / increased friction at the last 1/2 inch or so ( under 1 " for sure )
As weather seem to be manageable on Sunday at least in regard to temperatures, so i will have to go test a little to see if this helped, and i will also see if i can get my M8 to print out this months AGN shooting challenge and give that a try for the first time.
On a airgun addict side note, it seem like AGT Vulcan 3 rifles will land in Denmark in a couple of weeks, by then my piggy bank are not 100 % ready to carry such a load but it is damn close and the remainder can be picked up by my not too bad ( at the moment ) bank account.