30 December 2003, 14:44
JimmypCleaning Moly
How often do you clean when using moly coated bullets? I have shot 80 rds through a 30-06 with no decrease in accuracy. Was thinking of oiling the bore and putting the rifle away until next season! I once read where a man at a shooting school never cleaned his .308 rifle, it seemed to just go on and on with no decrease in accuracy. It is not that I hate to clean, it just that I hate to run a rod through an excellent bore! How do you clean moly out if you want to??
Thanks for the advice. JimmyP.
30 December 2003, 15:38
redialWell, this is guaranteed to stir the pot and the Marine Corps will likely excommunicate me for it, but I don't clean my moly-shooting match rifles for months at a time! I've often gotten 400 or so rounds downrange before I just couldn't stand it any longer and cleaned them! Hasn't hurt accuracy one bit and it saves "rod mileage" in the bore.
I do clean chambers and bolts, etc scrupulously but leave the bores alone for the most part. They (bores) get cleaned every three or four matches, plus practice sessions with Shooters Choice and JB in the conventional manner.
My 22-250 shot BETTER after 100+ moly rounds than it did earlier in the season, in fact.
Redial
30 December 2003, 15:51
ClarkI burnish the bore with Lyman moly bore paste, so there in no shooting in the barrel with moly bullets.
I have one fouling shot, and then it is sub moa all day.
I push a patch of powder solvent through and a dry patch every 10~50 rounds, if I feel like it.
I clean with powder solvent at the end of the day, and then clean with baking soda and water, and then a dry patch, and then motor oil.
If I get red bore from not cleaning with a cuastic [baking soda and water], then I clean the red bore out with Flitz or JB bore paste and 200 strokes.
30 December 2003, 19:11
SSTIn any rifle that I've started using moly, I have no intention of changing back. I do scrub out the carbon fouling vigorously with Kroil and a bronze brush, and maybe JB if I have to, but I try to leave as much of the moly as possible burnished onto the bore surfaces. I just don't see any copper fouling, so that's all I do. If I have to clean with Butch's Bore Shine, I'll just bronze brush moly bore prep back into the bore and let it set up again.