6.5x284 LRH question

[Patch700]

What is your cleaning regime with this barrel?.... It may be possible that it needs a certain amount of copper in it to shoot.

I have seen a couple factory barrels that won't smarten up till their fouled with 20+ rnds , I will clean the carbon etc with something mild like hopes but I won't put the sweets to it till the accuracy falls off... It helped on more than one occasion. Good luck

[Luke45]

What is your cleaning regime with this barrel?.... It may be possible that it needs a certain amount of copper in it to shoot.

I have seen a couple factory barrels that won't smarten up till their fouled with 20+ rnds , I will clean the carbon etc with something mild like hopes but I won't put the sweets to it till the accuracy falls off... It helped on more than one occasion. Good luck

Interesting, i have been deep cleaning it every 20 rounds or so becasue the copper fouling was very heavy. maybe im handicapping it though and should just keep shootin?

[Patch700]

Interesting, i have been deep cleaning it every 20 rounds or so becasue the copper fouling was very heavy. maybe im handicapping it though and should just keep shootin?

It's possible , I too have done the surgical clean method and to be honest I've found it doesn't always help on a factory barrel (if it looks rough using a bore scope)... I would still however do a light cleaning with something that won't aggressively remove copper and just sticks to powder and carbon etc in the intervals you're using now.. Certainly won't hurt to try.

[jsthntn247]

If it doesn't clean up with no copper showinga after 60 rounds, you need to toss it and get a criterion. My Bartlein showed no copper after 4 rounds, Krieger took 15, and Rock Creek about 20.