My compact Uragan .22 accuracy degraded extremely quickly and a lot in the last few days in the course of just one magazine. I've had it since 2017 or 18, can't remember which, and shot thousands of pellets through it, I wash my pellets. I never once cleaned it, don't mess with something that is running perfect. Pulled off the shroud and moderator and shot a few with the labradar running, accuracy possibly marginally better but still horrible. Velocities and ES were great, no problem there. Forgot how loud the sucker was without shroud and moderator, the echo off land and woods sounded louder than my 22 PB's, I'm sure it wasn't, just a much sharper higher pitched tone. So I cleaned the barrel for the first time ever. It took no time at all, and patches were not what I would call dirty at all. I didn't count, but I think I ran 3 patches with solvent on a jag, one scrub with brush, and a very few patches, maybe 5, after until they came out spotless. I'm thinking that was a waste of time, really no crud came out, and the "dirtiest" patch was really pretty clean. Shot it, and low and behold, accuracy is back. I really can't believe how little fouling was in the bore and how bad the accuracy got. I can only guess there must have been one tiny piece of lead stuck somewhere that was miraculously scattering pellets 3" at 30 yards.
Anyone else experienced large drop in accuracy with only a barely dirty bore, almost clean really before I cleaned it. Really can't stress enough how little came out of the bore.
Anyone else experienced large drop in accuracy with only a barely dirty bore, almost clean really before I cleaned it. Really can't stress enough how little came out of the bore.
