would you say its a good idea to wash your pellets prior to conditioning
and what is a good lube to use on them
would you say its a good idea to wash your pellets prior to conditioning
and what is a good lube to use on them
I posted a simular thread on the Daystate owners site a while back, I have been shooting air guns for 50 years and have never used a pull thru on any of them.
On my fire arms and shotguns yes but never on a air gun, Because of the cordite etc that can not be left in the barrel.
Barrels are simular to cylinder bores in car engines they have to be run in and once you have found a pellet brand that works stick with it .
Barrels are formed in different ways, Hammer forged, Button drawn or die cut and none of them leave a really smooth finish under the m/scope more like the Alps in fact.
I found the much praised JSB pellets are made from a very soft materel and would take a fair thru to run a barrel in.
Where as Crossmans alot harder and run in very quickly.
Its a bugger swapping about with ammo, considering the variables that come into it, Iv settled on one pellet for the air gun, one subsonic for the .22rf and one type for the HMR, less mucking about and 'stuff' going on.
Conditioning = Not dirty enough to clean yet.
Cheers for all the info on this thread, has stopped me from going (further) into madness.
Yet, on the air arms website, it recommends cleaning the barrel every 100 to 150 shots. Going by this, you would clean the barrel, condition it, then only get about 100 shots before it needs doing again. I would assume that air arms would know what they are talking about, but I think it's muchly overkill.
I just run 2 oiled patches through to fight rust in storage. Then 2 dry ones before shooting to suck up the oil. They never seem to need cleaned beyond that and it doesn't seem to erase whatever conditioning I got, but I always shoot 10-15 through if I'm changing pelets before trying for accuracy.
Rob
Between each batch of pellets
Shoot at tleast 30 pellets before trying to group with them
See if this helps
Useful information Neil, Hope to get some advantage from this thread,
Thanks all for your ideas, will try a few out tomorrow.