"Yrrah"
??.............Now the problem is the .25 barrel I have is garbage.
no matter what I do it's not accurate past 50 and get violent spirals.
anyhow anyone know a place to buy just a barrel?
DEDill,
Could I suggest that before you trash that barrel, if it originally shot OK, use a stiff bristle cleaning brush, preferably on a short handle, and give the last three inches of the muzzle end of the barrel a good scrub with Ballistol or a good rimfire barrel cleaner. Be careful not to rub the twisted wire part of the brush across the crown of the ST barrel.
Then clean the whole barrel with patches - women's face make-up cleaning patches are fine and don't shed fluff - with the Ballistol or whatever you have. Finish with a couple of pull-thoughs with dry patches.
Let us know what the results are.
Lead and bits of lead can get shed at the entry to the rifled section of an ST barrel, ie., the last couple of inches of the barrel, particularly if using a few different pellets of harder (more antimony) lead than JSBs, or dirty pellets like Benjamin/Crosman .25s. That rubbish WILL mark pellet heads non uniformly, and cause spiral flight - particularly in the pellet's descent phase after passing over the apex/apogy of its trajectory flight on longer shots.
Disregard the above if you know it all and have already carried out the procedure. But there are those who still feel that no barrel needs cleaning as they seldom shoot past 50 yards and or are lucky enough to have one of those barrels which is ultra smooth - or are just happy with its plinking accuracy at relatively short range.
Anyway, good luck DEDill, ... and Kind regards from Harry Downunder.
