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I know this may sound so obvious as to be stupid, but shooting your rifle less makes it easier to clean. What I mean by this is that the cleaning chore is made even more frustrating if you shoot the rifle, especially a big bore, too many times before cleaning it. Kenny Jarrett says anything over a .300 should be cleaned after every three shots! For some of us that would mean taking a cleaning rod to the range. But when I see where someone has shot his .416 Rigby twenty-five times in a single session, you can be sure that cleaning that rifle is going to be a chore. If you run a soaked patch through the rifle after five rounds, then brush a few strokes and then two clean patches through it, it only takes a minute or two and it seriously reduces those big fouling removal chores. Taking a cleaning rod and a few patches to the range is no big deal.


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Posts: 7046 | Location: Rambouillet, France | Registered: 25 June 2004Reply With Quote
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Seems to me that shooting a 416 Rigby (25) times in a session would cause a helluva lot more problems than cleaning!!!!!


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I found that a bore snake will help at the range to pull the heavy stuff out while trying loads then when i get home clean it good
 
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"Kenny Jarrett says any thing over a .300 should be cleaned after every three shoots"

IMO, that statement is a very large crock of shit. If Jarrett was tryin' to sell me one of his rifles and he told me that I needed to clean it every third shot, you can bet I'd be goin' elsewhere. But that's irrelevant, I'd never buy a Jarrett rifle in the first place.
 
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I make an effort to clean my rifles at least after firing 20 rounds. Nothing I have is very fancy but I have not noticed any difference in accuracy except some seem to settle down after 2 or three shots have been fired after cleaning. I'm not shooting bench rest rifles, just off the shelf hunting rifles so if I can put three shots into an inch center to center at 100 yards, I'll gladly live with it. I haven't found cleaning to be much of a chore with this routine. They all get the bore swabbed out after a day in the Oregon rain no matter how many shots have been fired since the last cleaning.
 
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Who is Kenny Jarrett?
But tell me why larger cals would need more cleaning?

I was in the school Army Cadets for 2 years and the .303 SMLE s were only ever just "oiled" with Burrs .303 oil or maybe Youngs oil. Never a solvent. I remember the copper streaks showing at the muzzles. Didn't seem to matter.

These days I attack copper like a demented house proud biddy. When I have a big load testing session I'll clean after every group. They reckon Sweets works best with the barrel hot, and it's a good way to let the barrel cool down. . . As well as using another rifle. Smiler
So it's better to compare groups with all starting from a clean cold barrel.

But with my range rifles I'd go forty odd shots in one day without any apparent loss of accuracy. Then we have a week to soak and patch anyway.
 
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