What solvent or cleaner?

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What solvent or cleaner?

#1 Post by Gazza »

Do you chaps use to clean your rimfire barrels and actions?
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#2 Post by Oddbod »

You want to clean a rimfire barrel?!!!

Seriously though. I rarely do more than run a boresnake through mine & when I do, it's a good scrub out with a bronze brush & Hoppe's #9.
The bolt & action get cleaned with a mixture of Hoppe's & isopropyl alcohol to remove all the waxy crap, followed by a light application of Ballistol.
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#3 Post by Alpha1 »

I don't clean them if they start to malfunction I might think about it.
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#4 Post by Gazza »

When I was shooting mini mag and stinger ammo the gritty deposits were terrible so I was having to clean the whole gun after 200-300 rounds. Since going to CCI standard in the CMMG things have got a lot cleaner .
I was just asking out of curiosity what people use but so far its seems cleaning a rimmy is not the done thing lol
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#5 Post by dromia »

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dromia wrote:Ed's Red.
What he said Edds red if you must.
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#7 Post by Les »

Gazza wrote:Do you chaps use to clean your rimfire barrels and actions?
Parker Hale 009 or Phillips for cleaning and Ballistol for lubrication. :good:

I'm one of those anal people who clean their rimmies after every shooting session, whether it's target shooting or 'plinking'.
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#8 Post by DL. »

I usually put a dry patch through my rimfires unless they've become gummed up when I will pay a bit of extra attention to the chamber.

They say over cleaning a .22Lr is a worse cause of wear than shooting them.

Also it takes a few fouling shots to get them shooting again after a full clean.
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#9 Post by dodgyrog »

Brunox and regularly too
I cleaned my benchrest 22 rifle this week and it shot the first two rounds straight in the dead centre of the bull - no 'running it in' after cleaning it needed
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#10 Post by Blackstuff »

I clean all my guns with Napier Gun Cleaner/Lubricant. I don't properly clean my .22's barrels, just a pull through with a bore snake to get the big bits out. (I use C2R on centre-fire barrels).

I shoot my .22's competitively where a jam will basically cost you at least a stage if not the match so just running them til they gum up isn't an option.
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