Like Scott said, if you lap and polish your barrel and then apply the wax, it works great at increasing accuracy and consistency. I like to experiment with everything, I’ll try anything once to see if it works or not. Cleaning and weighing pellets, lapping barrels, polishing barrels and waxing them. I also lube projectiles. I can’t always tell why something works but I can tell what I’ve tested and if it works in my guns! I try to give people honest, useful information that I go out and get myself. I try not to speculate and don’t pass on bad information that I “heard somewhere” online. Testing things 1st hand is the only way to really know if something works. When I give people information, I usually end the post, text, e-mail or phone call by saying, “that’s in my guns, be sure to test it yourself, in your guns!”
When I was testing a lot of slugs for NSA, VK and others, I tested most of the slugs with standard, stock, Lothar Walther barrels and FX liners...FX 600mm and 700mm STX, 600mm and 700mm Slug A and 700mm Standard Superior. In the 2nd phase of initial testing, I lapped and polished all of the liners I used. Accuracy increased, velocity increased and so did consistency. Next, I tested all of the slugs with lube. The duration between cleanings and the velocity in most cases increased and so did accuracy with some slugs. In the last phase of the initial testing, I used Renaissance wax in the liners. I cleaned them thoroughly, very thoroughly. Then I would use a drill, length of cleaning rod and very tight fitting mop to apply the wax. After it started to dry and harden a little bit I would really rub it into the pores with a tight fitting, hard foam cylindrical pad. I let it totally dry overnight and then I would shoot a couple of .25 cleaning pellets to get any dried, excess wax out of the barrel(never much) and then I shoot! If Scott says he lets it dry and then starts shooting and it works, believe him. He knows his stuff, I’ve just done it differently. I’m going to give his method a try. It can’t take more than a couple of pellets to get anything out of the barrel, faster and easier than the way I do it!
I can tell you that a waxed barrel and lubed projectiles has nothing to do with chasing accuracy. We all start with the best shooting projectile for our guns, some then lap/polish the barrel...Usually a one time deal. Then you wax it! You don’t wax much, it stays there a long time. I clean my barrel when it needs it, usually after a couple hundred pellets, I‘ll just quickly with a Patch Worm and light solvent through the liner, then a few dry patches until they’re absolutely clean...5-6 minutes! I rewax my barrel much more infrequently...Maybe every month or so, actually probably much longer. My method works and only takes maybe 5-10 minutes to apply and an afternoon in the sun or overnight to dry. There is no guessing how much wax to use, fiddling, chasing accuracy or anything like that. You already have a cleaning regimen, now when done cleaning, just add some wax to a tight fitting mop, rub it in, either by hand or with a drill. Let it dry overnight and then go shoot. You’ll now have to clean even less frequently than with lube alone, consistency will increase, fliers will decrease, your accuracy and velocity will probably increase as well! It only takes 5-10 minutes, what can it hurt? Seriously, give it a try, you’ll like the results! After initial waxing, just re-wax every once in a while. Have a good one!
Stoti
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