Pellet Washing & Lubricating
Gentlemen,
My Talon SS has arrived and scope’s mounted. Awaiting JB’s 4500 psi 71 cu ft tank and hose assembly plus a hose assembly for a 6K psi nitrogen cylinder, and the full 6K cylinder itself – all scheduled for delivery this Fri. I’m still reading and learning (hopefully) a lot of good info on here about the rifle, accessories, tuning, etc.
The DVD that came with my rifle suggests lubricating pellets for a virtually maintenance-free barrel. I’m wondering how many of you folks wash and lubricate your pellets and what procedure/items you use or do not recommend. I would also appreciate a link or reference to the top hat “o”ring information (what it does/how to install). I’m used to powder-burners, but these air rifles are a whole new experience for me – and one I am really interested in learning a lot about from experienced shooters.
Thank you in advance for your assistance.
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I have tried just about every pellet that is available in my Talon(dor) and have found that the JSB’s perform the best. If you’re new to air guns, you WILL find out through trial and error that each individual gun has its pellet preference. I DO NOT wash my lead but I have found that a very light oiling will actually tighten up my groups.
When I open a fresh tin of lead, I take a plastic 35mm film canister and put a 1″ square cleaning patch in the bottom of it, add just enough “Tri-Flo” oil to the patch to wet it then fill the container about 3/4 full with pellets. On top of the pellets, I will add another “wet” patch and then close it up. Now the fun part! Just roll and tumble it around for a while (usually while the wife is watching something crappy on T.V.)
When all the pellets are a little “shinier” than they were fresh from the tin, they are oiled enough! Just remove the patches and put the pellets back in the plastic canister. That’s how I carry my pellets out into the field when hunting. They should be shiny but not get your hands oily when you handle them!
Works for me!
Like was said, no o’rings to deal with. When breech is forward cleaning barrel from back with out tank on
,just dont get solvents forward of barrel into the breech orings.
Well i tell ya if you have never needed more than a patch your lucky. Or you have never cleaned the bore back to bare metal. On a fresh ruff bore it really takes more
had a buddy with a fairly new M 34 RWS that would not shoot for him, i pulled all the screws, and lock tighted them , pulled a patch down the bore and pulled out slithers of lead and crud,
worked the bore over with hoppes and brush then oiled patch, then jb bore paste, then oiled patch, until clean patch, shoots much better
it can be cleaned with a oiled patch now
For cleaning a gun barrel, all you need to do is run a patch through the bore with some simple gun cleaning solvent, like Hoppe’s No. 9. Use a clean soft cotton cloth with some light lubricant on it.
There are no seals on an air force gun that will be in the way when cleaning the barrel. The breach has o-rings but you will not be running the rod thru it when cleaning the barrel.
almost everyday when i first bought my condor, went thru 10,000 plus pellets in a short time , and allot of searching on this and other air gun sights , doing more reading than posting, and i cant answer that question,
all i know is some pellets seem to prefer a slight wet with oil and some like just enough to keep them from being dusty if that makes sense ,
seems like eun jins seem to like less oil, and jsb’s i have with peak accuracy sightings actually keep my finger tips with a light coating of oil and roll the pellet as i put them in the gun , but i don’t think there is a huge difference in all of this, only for peak accuracy, i’m talking 1/4″ groups or less at 50 yards etc.
crosman pellets i leave as is, with a few drops of break free or fp 10 in the can and lightly roll the can to make all wet ,
and as far as not touching the gun bore with little or no maintenance 😯 😯 😯 😯 this will lead to inaccuracy and leading
You need to clean the bore fairly aggressively at first until broken in . get yourself a cleaning rod and use jb bore paste and try and polish the bore , if not you will have to clean it more , and your bore will be very dirty and take longer to get clean. your accuracy will tell you when you need to clean it.
after a good polishing the bore will shoot longer and take way less time to get clean
Any special care needed regarding seals when cleaning the barrel?
well i tell ya, i was shooting allot ,
almost everyday when i first bought my condor, went thru 10,000 plus pellets in a short time , and allot of searching on this and other air gun sights , doing more reading than posting, and i cant answer that question,
all i know is some pellets seem to prefer a slight wet with oil and some like just enough to keep them from being dusty if that makes sense ,
seems like eun jins seem to like less oil, and jsb’s i have with peak accuracy sightings actually keep my finger tips with a light coating of oil and roll the pellet as i put them in the gun , but i don’t think there is a huge difference in all of this, only for peak accuracy, i’m talking 1/4″ groups or less at 50 yards etc.
crosman pellets i leave as is, with a few drops of break free or fp 10 in the can and lightly roll the can to make all wet ,
and as far as not touching the gun bore with little or no maintenance 😯 😯 😯 😯 this will lead to inaccuracy and leading
You need to clean the bore fairly aggressively at first until broken in . get yourself a cleaning rod and use jb bore paste and try and polish the bore , if not you will have to clean it more , and your bore will be very dirty and take longer to get clean. your accuracy will tell you when you need to clean it.
after a good polishing the bore will shoot longer and take way less time to get clean
Can anyone say whether there is any correlation between the hardness of the pellet and the need to lube? For instance, a soft lead like AA Diablo might go un-lubed whereas a harder lead alloy like RWS Superdome would be helped by some Napier, for example?
oring info
washing is simply silly i would say, now a little lube goes a long way, some pellets like light lubeing some like it a little dry
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Tnfarmer1;
Are you from Tennessee? If so, where in Tn? I’m in Gallatin.