Air Force condor cleaning
Hi I’m new to PCPS. Just bought a Air Force Condor SS. Absolutely love this gun. What is the proper way to clean it so the barrel lasts? ❓
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WD40 cuts the lead buildup great, i dont leave it in the barrel, finish with rem oil. alot of work but when it leaves ragged holes at 50 yards its worth it. I actually said my got dirty TILL i started washing/lubing. i run a patch through every 500 pellets and barely grays a patch.
GsT
Actually mine gets very dirty, till I started washing and lubing my pellets. WD40 cleans the lead out the barrel nicely, I use fabric patches, fishing line with a .177 pellet glued to the line, take a drink straw insert into the muzzle If you have a SS. By passes the baffles. Feed the pellet through on breech side and out the muzzle in to the straw. Make a loop on the other end of the line and hook a patch soaked with WD40 or Rem Oil. Pull it through till the patched are clean. There’s nmerous was to clean these guns, this works best for me. I lube the pellets with Kryotech after washing them.
I’m going to guess that WD-40 is why yours is getting dirty. (Although maybe it was JSB pellets, I haven’t shot them much). My experience with powderburners is that WD-40 is a lousy cleaner or lubricant. It’s great for water displacement, light rust removal, or as an aluminum cutting fluid for machining, but a cleaner it is not. It leaves a nasty film, particularly if allowed to dry, which will attract junk in addition to being lacquer on its own.
I’ve run a handful of pellets lubed with Ballistol down the barrel dinking around, but mostly shot H&N Barracudas “dry” along with a small selection of the JSB monsters, Crosman premiers, and Polymags. (Much more Barracudas than anything else) My borescope shows very little fouling at all. My cleaning technique has been to remove the tank and run a rigid cleaning rod through from the breach, but I got very little out and it probably had little effect.
I am certain that pellet choice, lube and washing will all impact how dirty a barrel gets. Some pellets are bound to be dirtier than others, off sized, or pre-lubed.
GsT
GsT
Actually mine gets very dirty, till I started washing and lubing my pellets. WD40 cleans the lead out the barrel nicely, I use fabric patches, fishing line with a .177 pellet glued to the line, take a drink straw insert into the muzzle If you have a SS. By passes the baffles. Feed the pellet through on breech side and out the muzzle in to the straw. Make a loop on the other end of the line and hook a patch soaked with WD40 or Rem Oil. Pull it through till the patched are clean. There’s nmerous was to clean these guns, this works best for me. I lube the pellets with Kryotech after washing them.
Just swab it out now and again with dry patches, or a little ballistol. It really shouldn’t get that dirty. No need for a brush or anything. Your barrel should out-last you.
GsT
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I use Goo Gone soaked patch or two, then dry patches when accuracy starts to go. Only time I clean mine, this is what I do with all my air guns, and so far it’s worked great. I also coach a 4-H youth shooting team, and we use the same method for cleaning the competition rifles and pistols. If they get cleaned, they they get at least 40-50 pellets shot through the barrels prior to any match.
Casey