Getting the carbon out for accuracy (and barrel life).

[sharpshooter]

If you are going to shoot coated bullets with moly,danzac or hbn, you want to make **** sure that the barrel is absolutely sterile clean before shooting coated bullets. If you have some hard carbon present, it will do bad things in a hurry. I found out the hard way.

[LongRange]

Great feedback sharpshooter. Tonight I purchased a Lucas product to see if it would help clean 260 barrel I suspected of having some hard carbon. If it doesn't work I may try the merc stuff. cant hurt.

ive heard...but havent tried...sea foam works very well.

If you are going to shoot coated bullets with moly,danzac or hbn, you want to make **** sure that the barrel is absolutely sterile clean before shooting coated bullets. If you have some hard carbon present, it will do bad things in a hurry. I found out the hard way.

i dont have a bore scope but will make sure that patches are spotless after scrubbing for carbon/soot and copper with bronze brushes and bore foaming. then a little scrubbing with a nylon brush and alcohol to get the cleaners out and then 5 to 10 alcohol soaked patches to make sure its clean and to dry it up a little...i just cleaned to metal about 120 rounds ago so it shouldnt be to bad as the barrel has never really collected much of either.
if you dont mind can you tell me what you learned the hard way so if i run into any issues ill know what to watch for?

[yobuck]

With the price of Savages, why not just shoot he-l out of them and just throw them away when they stop performing well?
Or better yet sell the action to some upstart gunsmith somewhere.

[Luke45]

With the price of Savages, why not just shoot he-l out of them and just throw them away when they stop performing well?
Or better yet sell the action to some upstart gunsmith somewhere.

^this +1

[GaCop]

ive heard...but havent tried...sea foam works very well.



i dont have a bore scope but will make sure that patches are spotless after scrubbing for carbon/soot and copper with bronze brushes and bore foaming. then a little scrubbing with a nylon brush and alcohol to get the cleaners out and then 5 to 10 alcohol soaked patches to make sure its clean and to dry it up a little...i just cleaned to metal about 120 rounds ago so it shouldnt be to bad as the barrel has never really collected much of either.
if you dont mind can you tell me what you learned the hard way so if i run into any issues ill know what to watch for?

That's the first I've heard about using "Sea Foam", gotta give that a try. I use the stuff in my F-150 all the time to help keep the injectors clean.

[LongRange]

That's the first I've heard about using "Sea Foam", gotta give that a try. I use the stuff in my F-150 all the time to help keep the injectors clean.

i never did try the sea foam but i am using mercury power tune(suggested by Fred)and and the MPT works just about as good as the old GM top engine cleaner.