Quote Originally Posted by eddiesindian View Post
I found myself getting a wild hair and decided to clean my barrel with copper removing cleaning agents. The barrel look,d fantastic...spit shine...ultra gloss...went to shoot it and boy was i pist!....my rig no longer groupd worth a dam. I knew better but in usual fashion my curiousity got the better of me. I ran some blow ammo thru the barrel to get some copper enbedded on the rifling and my groups came back to where they were before.
Removing powder fouling and occasional chamber cleaning is the norm for me now.
I've done the same thing, my 22-250 may as well be a shotgun when the bore is clean...