Perfect Barrel - Proof of "leading in" after cleaning ??

[iceni1]

Also how often you use your rifles may have some bearing on the matter, I am retired so i can have a play with all my rifles at will but if i was going to store them for any length of time i may well think about leaving the barrels lubricated.
The amount of money i have spent on my collection its rude not keep shooting them, Much to the other halfs chagrin!

[Benelli B76]

Also how often you use your rifles may have some bearing on the matter, I am retired so i can have a play with all my rifles at will but if i was going to store them for any length of time i may well think about leaving the barrels lubricated.
The amount of money i have spent on my collection its rude not keep shooting them, Much to the other halfs chagrin!

In December I took a rifle and pistols out of storage in South Africa that have not been touched for 8 years.I lubed the barrels when I put them away.I was amazed how hard the lube had set, and I could not remove it with a phosphor bronze brush, it was absolutely rock hard. The rifle would not chamber rounds and I had to use a chamber reamer to clear it.

Baz

[Lol Moore]

Well the intensly cleaned barrel has settled down now, I would estimate it took around 100 pellets but is now s**t hot, managed an hour this afternoon and even in a variable breeze (shot prone, as low as possible to try to negate) its producing a single ragged hole at 45 yards

Several checks over the chrono using Express (at the muzzle, not had chance to check it down range) revealed a very consistant 810ft/s with around 5-6 ft/s spread

The question is was it worth it, well I would say that my usual regime of a couple of shoot through VFG's after every use is probably enough but it may well be worth a deep clean every now and then, maybe at each service - for me that would mean once a month as I always seem to have my guns in bits

I still intend getting a barrel to polish/lap to a mirror finish - anyone got a Steyr barrel they want to sell