I like to clean guns...

[PJgunner]

Originally Posted by Catfish

My wife has a cousin that bought a 722 Rem, in 222 in 1960. He put a K-8 Weaver on it and put it in his truck. It staied there untill the late 1990`s and he would kill over 200 groundhogs a year with it. In the late 90`s I ask him how many groundhogs he had and he told me his gun was shot out. I`ve never seen a 222 that was shot out and brought his rifle home with me. I ran 50 patchs of Sweets 7.62 through the bore and number 50 was just as blue as number 1. Since I was tired of cleaning I took it out and fire it. I put 5 rounds in at about .600 at 100 yrds. So I cleaned up the gun, put a coat of finish on the stock and took it back to him. I figured in another 30 years I would finish the cleaning and redo the stock again.

Next time, do that cleaning with JB Bore paste. That's what the bench resters use. Really, it won't hurt the bore. I have a Winchester M70 in 7x57 Mauser that is a barrel fouler of he highest order. Finally I did a fire lapping job on the gun and it's a lot better but still fouls fairly quickly. I'll run a patch with the Sweet's 7.62 first to see how bad the fouling is, then wipe that out and use a 25 caliber brush wrapped with some paper towel patches smeared woth the JB. I do 50 full bcck and forth strokes. The gun is mounted in a vice with protected jaws and the muzzle is hard up against the wall so that the paper patch does not leave the muzzle. I do the same for the Sweet's. After the 50 strokes, I wipe down the bore and run another Sweet's patch to check on how blue the patch gets. Usually I have to do another 50 strokes with the JB and one more Sweet's and 99.9 percent of the copper fouling is gone. Then, I make sure everything is out of the barrel and chamber with some Shooter's Choice solvent. Then, one more dry patch, a patch with some WD40 to preserve the bore and I'm done.
Paul B.