How often do you clean your barrel?
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What others have mirrored. When accuracy seems to be waning.
With slugs, I do have to clean more frequently--I've never been able to 'shoot through' when groups start to open up a bit.
With slugs, I do have to clean more frequently--I've never been able to 'shoot through' when groups start to open up a bit.
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It depends on the gun. I never cleaned the Nova Vista Freedoms that I had because they shot VERY accurately without it.
The .177 Benjamin Fortitude Gen2 seems to have improved somewhat after cleaning, but not greatly.
I guess I follow the general advice you will find here and on GTA. Clean the barrel very well when you get a new gun. Then only clean it if accuracy drops off.
The .177 Benjamin Fortitude Gen2 seems to have improved somewhat after cleaning, but not greatly.
I guess I follow the general advice you will find here and on GTA. Clean the barrel very well when you get a new gun. Then only clean it if accuracy drops off.
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I have airguns that have been shooting for 50 years and never once cleaned the barrel. Most of them are still more accurate than I am.
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My Impact .25 slug liner looses accuracy about ever 600 or so rounds so I clean it then. I was shooting shooting lubed NSA slugs at 930-960fps for the most part.
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i just rebuilt my marauder i got in 2012 with some hopup parts and cleaned the barrel with silicone oil only .. for the first time 'ever' ....pellet barrels dont really need a deep clean and especially not a chemical clean, just a dry patch now and then to get rid of debri .. its liable to shoot 'worse' if you chemically strip it all the time .. pellets ride on the tops of the lands, unlike bullets or 'swugs' that fit much tighter and likely will foul the barrel real nice for ya ...one exception i can think of though is i have seen the very crown of a pellet barrel get fouled with lead before and that IS a problem ti watch out for especially in a shrouded barrel .. but thats not really 'cleaning' the barrel .. thats the crown ..
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Couple comments on here about never cleaning the barrel and things being okay....
With my guns/barrels, the ones that get shot the most, WILL eventually need cleaned if I want them to shoot as good as they can.
My idea of lots of shooting is likely different than others though, just like accuracy and precision aren't viewed the same by everybody.
With my guns/barrels, the ones that get shot the most, WILL eventually need cleaned if I want them to shoot as good as they can.
My idea of lots of shooting is likely different than others though, just like accuracy and precision aren't viewed the same by everybody.
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When I first get them and after about 200 or so shoots. Then I only clean them when groups start to open up, I have noticed ammo makes a difference. I’ve noticed my guns that are much more broken in need cleaned less.
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I have been polishing my barrels before I ever shoot them and they need far less cleanings and seem to be easier to clean when I do have to clean them
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I clean the barrel of every new gun, then get on here and ask.....how often to clean a barrel.
Your question makes complete sense but will admit, I'm waiting til accuracy suffers.
Your question makes complete sense but will admit, I'm waiting til accuracy suffers.
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Every 500 pellets/slugs or so with all my pcps. Takes about 20 shots to lead the barrels back in to peak accuracy.
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Ok only if the accuracy seems to be off. I really think it depends on what you are shooting (both ammo and barrel) and at what speed. I have a HW55 runs about 650 to 750 depending on pellet weight never cleaned. Still shoots one hole groups. I forgot to reset the hammer spring in Dad's Avenger, ran some Hades through at about 1000fps didn't take long to need a cleaning. We were eliminating destructive tree rats at 25 to 35 yards. That speed is not needed but was accurate at those distances. Till they weren't. I did try running slugs as fast as I could from my Cricket, that crapped it up in about 300, now some were the Grizzleys, some were the FX hybrids, some the NSAs, some those new Zahns.
If you know with x00 rounds accuracy starts a decline I would clean before that.
Jim
If you know with x00 rounds accuracy starts a decline I would clean before that.
Jim
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My manual didn't cover much , on a cleaning routine ( like most ) as a rule of thumb, cleaning when accuracy is effected, I read a article on air gun maintenance advised every 1000 pellets for best accuracy. I guess shoot, til led runs out the end !!
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What is the right way to clean a airgun barrel? Do all here do the same? Seems unlikely, all seem to think what they do works. That would suggest there is no wrong way of doing it, wouldn't it?
Then consider this, I have a 300 that a conservative estimate would be eats a 500 tin a month. I have had this gun about 10 years. That's 72.000 shots with out ever having the barrel cleaned. It is no more or less accurate than the day I got it. How is that possible?
Most seem to say clean when groups open up or accuracy falls off. If I did that I would be cleaning every time I shoot. Not saying cleaning is never needed or anyone here is wrong just asking honest questions hopeing to find some answers.
Then consider this, I have a 300 that a conservative estimate would be eats a 500 tin a month. I have had this gun about 10 years. That's 72.000 shots with out ever having the barrel cleaned. It is no more or less accurate than the day I got it. How is that possible?
Most seem to say clean when groups open up or accuracy falls off. If I did that I would be cleaning every time I shoot. Not saying cleaning is never needed or anyone here is wrong just asking honest questions hopeing to find some answers.
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