Cleaning the barrel, DON’T DO THIS!
Alright, so last nite I decided my barrel need a cleaning. I had bought some Beeman cleaning pellets so I wanted to try them out. Instruction said for PCP use one pellet, so I followed instructions. I was chronying so I figured I’ll just fire the cleaning pellet (felts) through the chrony and see what kind of velocity I was getting. Took aim and BOOM! I don’t know what it was but I reckon it was a sonic boom. HOLY SMOKES!
I have a TalonP with LDC, and it’s quiet as a whisper shooting NORMAL pellets. But for some reason shooting the cleaning pellet cause this tremendous sound. Too bad the chrony gave an error reading, but I reckon it must have been over 1300 fps. Of course I wasn’t wearing hearing protection, so my ear ranged for a few minutes. Maybe one day I’ll chrony it properly just to see how fast it is going.
Anybody ever made this mistake? Tcmalker rarely makes a mistake but he will admit to it. Anybody curious about this should try to shoot the cleaning pellet through their shrouded rifle just to see what happens.
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I’ve had them get stuck in my shroud.
Those little felt pellet are shit for sure.
I used them around 30 years ago and never again.
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They work just fine, as long as you put them BEHIND the lead pellet. (Never alone or in FRONT 😯 of a lead pellet.) NEVER!!! but when you place them behind the lead pellet it causes them to expand and fill the bore. Really giving a good scrubbing! 😉
They are also good for shooting dogs and cats in the ass that don’t belong in the yard! As long as your not too close. really burns their asses!
No such word as ranged though. 😆