After my preseason range session, I throughly cleaned the barrel. I then fired three fouling shots and put the rifle in the safe awaiting my first hunting trip of the year. Will this practice do any harm to my Hart s/s barrel? The safe is equipped with a "Golden-Rod" to eleviate any humidity,etc. I have heard that this is a good idea to assure that the first shot will impact where it is aimed.
Thanks,
Jim

Jim

Try a product called Prolix.
You can get it from Heritage Arms in Salt Lake City. Aleko, a poster here owns the store.

I have tested it on several barrels, and it does not change the point of impact of the first round out of a clean bbl.

Whatever/however I clean a bbl, after I am done I apply Prolix with a nylon brush or a patch, then dry out the chamber and bbl with 2 or 3 patches.

While on a hunting trip, if the bbl needs to be cleaned [gets wet inside, or a few shots are fired I clean only with Prolix, then dry it out.

First round out, and all others are in the proper spot.

Check out their website.

I used this process on 10 bbls today, I hope to shoot all of them tommorrow and will report back on the results with them.

Thanks for the info, N E 450 No2! Please post the results with the Prolix. I prefer cleaning my barrel after shooting.
Thank you,
Jim

Hey Jim, I've always focused on where the first shot from a pristine clean barrel impacts. I also want the second one to be close to that first one, but I'm not overly concerned about where more shots would go. When Hunting, I've never needed a third shot in over 5-decades.

Where I hunt the moisture can cause Pitting if the barrel is not lightly lubed(greased and wiped dry with a couple of patches).

But there are a lot of folks who never seem to be concerned about a dirty barrel and actually prefer them that way. Not me.

Best of luck to you.

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Originally posted by Jim Hundley:
After my preseason range session, I throughly cleaned the barrel. I then fired three fouling shots and put the rifle in the safe awaiting my first hunting trip of the year. Will this practice do any harm to my Hart s/s barrel? The safe is equipped with a "Golden-Rod" to eleviate any humidity,etc. I have heard that this is a good idea to assure that the first shot will impact where it is aimed.
Thanks,
Jim

I've done it the same way for 40 years. I don't clean my rifle barrels during the season, unless they get rained on. I live in a place where humidity is often 90+%, have never owned a stainless barrel, and have never had the slightest problem with bore corrosion. You certainly won't have any problems with stainless. I couldn't care less where the first three foulers from a clean barrel go. Any barrel that won't put numbers 4 through 20 in the same place without cleaning is a tomato stake.
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"Serious rifles have two barrels, everything else just burns gunpowder."

Hi The Police SWAT teams do the same operation with their sniper rifles to assure the same point of impact every shot .

Your fine, no damage will come from that if your gun is in a dry non humid area and it is..Too much is made of all this stuff. I like to clean a gun after about 20 or 30 shots and then fire a few before I go hunt.

So far on all the barrels I have used Prolix on I have not noticed any shift in zero for the first rounds out.

The test continues.