Quote Originally Posted by Lakey View Post
70 odd years of grot may take some shifting! I wonder how many BSA's get any sort of barrel cleaning at all?? Not many is my guess. And it only take one patch of rust or one area of sticky dirt up the bore to significantly reduce accuracy and velocity.

Dont forget you can start the process off without waiting for cleaning rods. You can use cotton parcel string with a couple of big (.177 sized) knots in. Tie the knots in one end (one after the other) and add a small narrow weight to the other and pass the string (weight first) down the barrel until you can grasp the end, then a couple of drops of oil on the knots and pull them steadily through the barrel, If you have a phosphor bronze brush, then that can be tied to the end as well. If you cant find cotton parcel string, then fishing line witha couple of lead split shot nipped onto one end to provide weight is good, Tie on a small bit of cotton sheet. or J cloth (it needs to be a fairly tight fit up the bore) and pull through. Check out the colour of the emerging cloth - it will surprise you I am sure


Good luck and post up your findings to put us all out of our misery

Good luck.......
Thanks for this great idea Lakey!

I will start doing this tonight after work. I have parcel sting and fishing line and split weights.

When I looked through the barrel yesterday with a torch, I noticed that not only was there a few raised pieces of rust but all the rifling seemed to be filled in with crud, so I'm essence almost giving a smooth bore look.

I'd never thought of putting knots in this type of string before and going pull throughs. The good thing about it is this type of string will soak up any king of oil I put on it and drag it through the bore.

I have a little birch casey rust remoover left over, so I may put a little down and pull a few times with the knotted string and see if I can get rid of some stuff.

I will only have an hour after work if that, as I have the family coming round for dinner, but I will try and post my result with a photo of the string if I can, and it will be interesting to see the colour!

Thanks for this great idea, ( the small things in life eh ) this will be a good start Untill I recieve my riding set!