Copper grabber of a barrel.

[jhelmuth]

I polish new Savage barrels with Flitz, around 20 passes and it seems to help. Some barrels will never get like you want. You could just buy my Shilen 25-06 barrel

The most important question, how does it shoot?

I have a 700 VLS in 243 I affectionately call my "Copper Mine". I swear a bullet starts out a 24 cal and 26 inches later exits a 22, but it has little trouble putting 10 in .5" or under @100 and that's with me driving!

The other question, how many shots does it take until all your hard work in undone? One, two?

In most instances copper fouling can be reduced by per-treating the bore with Lock-Ease. It tends to duplicate the powder residue layer laid down from the initial clean barrel shot(s).


Bill

Agree with your comments. My reasoning is the amount of time/effort/work that has to be put into these and the questionable end result (either they have minimal imapct or never fully mitigate the problem, thereby still leaving you with a barrel which still requires more time/effort/work). For me (and I'm only speaking for myself), I would rather lose a few $ on a barrel that I really don't like than to spend way more down the road to keep it (and never really be happy with to-boot)...