Cleaning a air gun barrel ????????????????
Now I like to read stuff on air guns, I get a air gun catalog , The new catalog had a article on VELOCITY VERSUS MASS;
To sum it up the first part says the firearms shooters come with miss information , The need to clean air gun barrels is one thing you can forget. Because air guns do not get dirty in the same way as firearm barrels………………………..
I love reading the articles from this catalog and I order all my pellets from them, Buy four and pay for three.
Its a very good read and article , am I reading it wrong or you just can not believe everything you read…
I am still in the market for a good magazine on air guns, And so far I think the guys on the other side of the big pond are way ahead of us on the air gun Magazines , But again I think they are more into the sport even with there silly restricted power on there guns, Here in the U.SA we can easy pick up a AR15 or a 30-06 , 22 mag, and on and on were they are pretty restricted
I even read where sling shots were restricted in places,
As a novice I get confused sometimes….
Mike
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It’s worth noting that lead seems to build up on the rifling lands only, not on the grooves. Lands are the part that crushes the lead in those pellets so it’s quite natural I suppose, especially if there are any imperfections on the land surface. Micropolishing those lands should greatly reduce the lead build up, at least guys with competition grade bigbore barrels claim that they require cleaning seldom if at all. I have a FWB300 that I’ve put some 50K pellets through and I don’t recall cleaning the barrel ever. I think that’s a combination of highly polished barrel and low speed of pellets. For a wast majority of production barrels lead builds up rather quickly and as you can see in the photo it does bad things for pellets and accuracy.
So the moral of the story is you can not believe everything you read,
I also know for a fact that my springer’s suffer from a dirty bore, And my 25 cricket needs cleaning every 500 shots or less..
Just when I read that it stumped me for a while…
Ok now back to shooting
Mike
Yes, I’ve heard him say that in some of his video also. Very strange indeed for someone that does seem to have a lot of knowledge on guns ! Even his wright up on the VELOCITY verse MASS part can be disprove by some.
Tim from MAC 1 believes in a cleaning barrel is needed to achieve accuracy in Airguns is also a must.
I guess one needs to experience or experiment this himself/herself to be convinced that a clean barrel is needed to get superb accuracy.
In which is my fact of life and will continue to keep a clean barrel on all my guns.
~ GKU
Who knows. AG barrels need cleaning too. That’s a fact.
EDIT : Whoever says that AG barrels don´t need cleaning is wrong. I don´t care if it´s Jesus himself, Allah, Buddha or any other imaginary friend claiming such BS. Gaylord or not. I´ve seen it with my own eyes so many times , on my own and others people´s rifles , that there´s no one who can convince me about the opposite. Period !
I sure wish someone else would read this article, Maybe I am reading it wrong…
The Arthur is Tom Gaylord , I am a novice but I thought he knows a LOT about air guns,,,
Its in Volume 6 of Pyramyd Air. Page 27-28..
Maybe he is talking about BB guns?
A great pic ! A pic is better than a thousand word . :fishinghole:
Right. The thing is that once the layer of lead starts to accumulate it “grows” in at faster and faster pace and thus rubs more and more on the pellet surface leading to bigger and bigger chunks being shaved off the pellet. 😯
A negative cycle, so to say.
Nice macro photography there rkr ! Now I can see where those small pieces of lead on the cleaning patches come from ! 😯
Yes even my ST barrel needs a cleaning now and then.
Now days I’m a bit lazy and clean may CZ barrels every 150-200 rounds knowing that if I wait till the accuracy falls off it will be harder to clean.
As for caliber size for me they just about all get pretty dirty.
Good info Sir Ville !
~ GKU
To sum it up the first part says the firearms shooters come with miss information , The need to clean air gun barrels is one thing you can forget. Because air guns do not get dirty in the same way as firearm barrels………………………..
I love reading the articles from this catalog and I order all my pellets from them, Buy four and pay for three.
Its a very good read and article , am I reading it wrong or you just can not believe everything you read…
I am still in the market for a good magazine on air guns, And so far I think the guys on the other side of the big pond are way ahead of us on the air gun Magazines , But again I think they are more into the sport even with there silly restricted power on there guns, Here in the U.SA we can easy pick up a AR15 or a 30-06 , 22 mag, and on and on were they are pretty restricted
I even read where sling shots were restricted in places,
As a novice I get confused sometimes….
Mike
That may , and may not , apply for 12 ft.lbs UK guns but the more power an Airgun has the more pressure is forcing the pellet skirt against the rifling = the faster it gets dirty. Also , bigger caliber leads up much faster than a smaller one.
Airgun barrels don´t need cleaning ? That´s BS ! Maybe if you just hunt with yours and aren´t concerned about pinpoint accuracy that may work but for target shooting frequent cleaning is a must.
Some barrels build up lead fast, if you don’t clean them up pellets come out like this:
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That ! And as an extra notion : Lead builds up at the choke area, by the “neck” as well. That can be clearly seen with a bore scope on my Compact. And it’s kinda logical too .. 🙂