Barrel "Conditioning".

[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?)?

[Rapidnick]

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.

[bmhill]

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.

thanks for the reply
its an airwolf mct

[verminhunter]

Depends OK for all the moving parts to bed in really sweetly.

Get back to bed nickos, talking about your parts early in the morning honestly.

Kalimera felleh mou.

[gumdrop]

I had a TX200 which shot accurately from the box, but then started throwing flyers as usage increased.
I cleaned the barrel with dry tight pull throughs then a couple with Sovol Autosol and finally a couple with jewellers rouge this resulted in extremely
tight groups much further out than before.
There was a product on the market that was added to the clean bore of a hot barrel, intended for live round guns it nevertheless worked well in air rifle barrels
and cut down the fouling on a friends black powder musket

[buckshot100]

Very interesting reading, I'm about to take delivery of a new HW100 .177 and id'e like to know the best way to keep the barrel sweet. Do i waz a tin of pellets through to bed it in?
I am going to start with AA's, (lubed?) so when do i give it a clean? Will firing a few VFG cleaning pellets be all that is needed periodically as i don't like the idea of any kind of brush.
Thanks in advance.

Neil.

[Adam77K]

Very interesting reading, I'm about to take delivery of a new HW100 .177 and id'e like to know the best way to keep the barrel sweet. Do i waz a tin of pellets through to bed it in?
I am going to start with AA's, (lubed?) so when do i give it a clean? Will firing a few VFG cleaning pellets be all that is needed periodically as i don't like the idea of any kind of brush.
Thanks in advance.

Neil.

For me a pull-through is the best way, just get a loop of plastic-coated fishing trace with the end tied to a piece of dowel or something similar to hold on to. I use a plastic drinking straw to protect the crown, and feed the pullthrough down the barrel through this. Best to remove the silencer first, but be careful the first time you unscrew it in case the barrel rotates. If it does you'll have to tighten the barrel fixing grubscrew first. Also make sure the piece of cloth isn't so large as to get stuck in the breech.

With a brand new gun I'd probably clean the barrel first to get rid of any oils or greases that accumulated in the factory then just start shooting it in. My HW100 groups open up a little after about 500-700 pellets and I usually then clean the barrel with a few pull-throughs (first one moistened with pellet lube), then followed by 3 dry VFG pellets.