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Rifle Bore Cleaning – Advice and Tips
Brownells Gunsmith Tech Corner – November 2010
By Monty Crain – Brownells Gun Tech

Rifle Bore Cleaning - Advice and Tips

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Des Moines, Iowa – -(Ammoland.com)- There have been a number of claims lately, of the latest greatest goop or gunk to use in the bore of your firearm. The claims vary from greater velocity, lower pressures, easier cleaning, longer barrel life, improved accuracy and often combination’s of the above.

To me these are sales hype and can easily be refuted just by reading the instructions and disclaimers. Some require you use another un-related product to “prepare” the bore to accept their product and often those items are proven over time to work on their own, without additional compounds or supplemental work.

One thing you will see in common among these processes is the requirement that the process be repeated at certain intervals such as every 1000 rounds. While that sounds like a nice round number and easily tracked, what does that also say about the process?

Aside from the added cost of $40 or so dollars to the cost of a thousand rounds, you have gradually diminishing returns on your initial investment. It also means you have a gradual deviation in the benefits of the product you have painstakingly applied to your bore. That has to mean gradual reduction of velocity gains, higher relative pressures, a continued loss or a reduction in barrel life, etcetera. More important is the fact that you have introduced a variable into your firearm that does not allow for consistency.

Consistency is the key to repeatability and determining the point of impact from shot to shot and ultimately it is the prime determining factor for accuracy.

Granted as the bore gets dirty from firing the gun it must be cleaned and then repeated each time it is determined to be dirty. This is a fact of life in firearms and shooting in general. There are some ways around the tedious chore of cleaning each time but it involves polishing the bore to keep the copper or lead from building up as rapidly as it normally would.

The process I refer to is JB Bore paste or JB Bore Bright.

Click to Rifle Bore Cleaning Tips video.

When used properly and cleaned out of the bore afterward, this is the most effective way I’ve found to condition a bore before even the first round is fired. By using VFG felt bore pellets the process is even faster and more efficient. The felt pellets hold an even amount of JB around the surface of the pellet and they conform to the land/groove configuration of the bore. Passing the combination thru the bore about 50 to 60 times each way will burnish the surface of the lands and grooves so they don’t drag the jacket of the bullet and cause transfer of the copper to the barrel interior. Shooting sessions can last longer before fouling becomes evident or accuracy begins to degrade. If you have the added benefit of access to a bore scope you can actually see the tops of the lands take on a smoother appearance. Using JB Bore paste is also a great way to remove molybdenum deposits left by moly coated bullets.

Recently I saw an article espousing the use of JB and another couple of additives to coat live rounds to fire lap bores and make them smoother. I would never recommend putting any type of liquid, paste, cream, salve or other obstruction in your gun’s bore and then firing a high pressure rifle round down the bore. If you think about it you will realize you would be flirting with possible disaster to do this type of action as it replicates having water or mud in the bore on firing.

Have fun shooting and keep it clean.

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Black Rifle Friday & the True Meaning Of the Holidays

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Des Moines, Iowa – -(Ammoland.com)- Sounds awesome, right?

Immediately makes you think of all the fun things you can do at the range or on hunts with your “Black Rifles”.

All the dreaming you can do to improve your shooting of these great guns. Or more importantly, all the fun you’ve been having with your buddies this past year and hopefully you will again next year. With your “Black Rifles” - which we have singled out to feature on the Black Friday Sale.

The whole point of making this the lead to this month’s WebBench is to call attention to the Big Black Friday Sale we’re putting on from 12 AM on the famous “Black Friday” major sale day to 12 Midnight on Monday night, the now famous “Cyber Monday” major sale day on the web.

Our event runs from the beginning of one to the end of the other – better than you’re going to find anywhere else out there!

What we’ve put together for you is a special sale page you can get to by following this link: brownells.com/blackriflefriday or by going to our home page, brownells.com, and clicking on the main banner featuring the sale.

Our team has put together a mix of brand-new products that just came in, to some great, popular accessories for the whole range/family of black guns – the AR-15, the AK, the .50 cal, Remington 700, the Saiga, and even some .22 cals. Didn’t mess around with the “usual” stuff – just things to let you trick out or up-grade or accessorize the black guns in your collection.

In addition to some special pricing on individual items, we’ve given you 10% off your entire order when you break the $150 dollar threshold. When you click on the item that interests you, you’ll go to it on the regular catalog page, and can add to your order’s shopping cart from there. Then click on the “Sale Banner” on the item page to get back to the Black Rifle Friday Sale page. To get the special pricing and all, you’ll need to add the discount code that shows up on the sale’s landing page in the “Promotional Code” box on the order page as a part of your final checkout.

So - jump to the Sale Site – click here - and have some fun shopping!!

True Meaning Of Thanksgiving & Christmas
However, let’s never forget the true meaning of Thanksgiving and the Christmas season. It is our annual reminder to take a hard look at our priorities. We all have many, many things to be thankful for in our personal and business lives. We strongly encourage you to grab those people who are most important to you and tell them, “Thanks for being a part of my life”. Drop that note in the mail, make that phone call. Let folks know you’re thinking about them and the connection you have to them, and that you just wanted to let them know you wanted to touch base with them. Or do a small act of kindness for someone. It goes an exceptionally long way in helping you be the best of who you are – and it will make a difference in everyone’s life you touch.

This time of year is the time for family and the time for friends and the time to continue to connect - or reconnect - with your personal faith. This is something we all need to do. And each major faith has important holidays along about now in which you can participate. Take part; you’ll feel personally much better for it.

Here is our personal “Thanks” to all of you.

We thank you for your continued commitment to the Second Amendment and the individual rights our Constitution and Bill of Rights grant to all of us. We thank you for your undying faith in America and what this great country and it’s free people hold near and dear. We thank you for you unlimited support of our Armed Forces, our Troops at home and those in harms way. We thank you for being our friends and customers – for telling us when we are wrong or have failed your expectations - and for the “atta-boys” when we get it right and have met your needs.

Many, Many Thanks from the Gang at Brownells.

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At Brownells Everything is Guaranteed period! Forever, 100%, with no restocking fees. Brownells is the world’s largest supplier of firearm parts, gunsmithing tools, reloading equipment and accessories. Stocking more than 30,000 items, the company supplies armorers, gunsmiths, and shooters worldwide. All of their products are backed by a 100% satisfaction, unconditional, lifetime guarantee. For more information, or to place an order, call 800-741-0015 or visit Brownells.com

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