Originally Posted by
bmhill
on a brand new gun would you advise cleaning the barrel then start with a type of pellet and see if you get good groups?
or not bother to clean and go straight into conditioning?
i have heard people say at least a tin (500) of pellets to condition a new gun would this be a fair assumption(sp?)?
Depends entirely on its accuracy 'out of the box'. If OK with pellets you expect to work in that type of rifle then don't bother.. Although rifles need a lining of lead to 'condition' the barrel a full tin is rather a lot just for leading. However, springers do take a while for all the moving parts to bed in and for the rifle to reach optimum. I'd say up to 1000 shots to see what it really can do and get it shooting really sweetly.
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