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<blockquote data-quote="diggler1833" data-source="post: 3817356" data-attributes="member: 48072"><p>Dedicated benchrest shooters clean after almost every string of fire...you're talking 40 rounds max, and usually half that. The thing about their cleaning diligence is that they know how their barrel will shoot with 1-20 rounds through it...but once you add additional carbon and copper fouling that adds variables. Granted, they're trying to shoot 1/4" groups at 200 yards...not 1.5 MOA at 100.</p><p></p><p>F-Class guys aren't as crazed about it, but I bet you won't find a national-level competitor that goes over 150 rounds without a thorough cleaning and verification with a borescope. </p><p></p><p>I fall along the lines of the F-class guys, but I am not a competitor myself. I have previously subscribed to the PRS mindset that you only need to clean when accuracy goes away...but you can't guarantee that you can time perfectly when that occurs...maybe mid string on a course of fire...maybe it's when you have that trophy in your sights at 500 yards, and now you're tracking a wounded animal.</p><p></p><p>I will run a wet patch down the bore at the end of the season on my hunting rifles just to prevent rust, but aside from that I just keep notes and will clean thoroughly every 100 rounds or so. This differs from my exterior rifle cleaning, where I am obsessive about rust and corrosion prevention. No barrel ever gets thoroughly cleaned just before the start of the season. I want at least five rounds through it before I'll confirm cold bore zero.</p><p></p><p>My thorough cleaning regimen consists of going after carbon fouling with (insert brand of choice) solvent and brush intermittently until the patches aren't showing much, then I go after the copper. Once I'm not seeing anymore copper, I go another time after the hard carbon. From there, I'll run a chamber brush to try to prevent carbon ring buildup. I don't use abrasives, so I'm sure I'm not getting all of it, but I am able to get accuracy back to my baseline level for the next 100 rounds before I repeat the process. I'm just trying to keep myself in a known accuracy window.</p><p></p><p>2023 will see me investing in a borescope and probably experimenting with a couple different solvents. Until one has a borescope...hard carbon and carbon ring buildup is just a guess.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="diggler1833, post: 3817356, member: 48072"] Dedicated benchrest shooters clean after almost every string of fire...you're talking 40 rounds max, and usually half that. The thing about their cleaning diligence is that they know how their barrel will shoot with 1-20 rounds through it...but once you add additional carbon and copper fouling that adds variables. Granted, they're trying to shoot 1/4" groups at 200 yards...not 1.5 MOA at 100. F-Class guys aren't as crazed about it, but I bet you won't find a national-level competitor that goes over 150 rounds without a thorough cleaning and verification with a borescope. I fall along the lines of the F-class guys, but I am not a competitor myself. I have previously subscribed to the PRS mindset that you only need to clean when accuracy goes away...but you can't guarantee that you can time perfectly when that occurs...maybe mid string on a course of fire...maybe it's when you have that trophy in your sights at 500 yards, and now you're tracking a wounded animal. I will run a wet patch down the bore at the end of the season on my hunting rifles just to prevent rust, but aside from that I just keep notes and will clean thoroughly every 100 rounds or so. This differs from my exterior rifle cleaning, where I am obsessive about rust and corrosion prevention. No barrel ever gets thoroughly cleaned just before the start of the season. I want at least five rounds through it before I'll confirm cold bore zero. My thorough cleaning regimen consists of going after carbon fouling with (insert brand of choice) solvent and brush intermittently until the patches aren't showing much, then I go after the copper. Once I'm not seeing anymore copper, I go another time after the hard carbon. From there, I'll run a chamber brush to try to prevent carbon ring buildup. I don't use abrasives, so I'm sure I'm not getting all of it, but I am able to get accuracy back to my baseline level for the next 100 rounds before I repeat the process. I'm just trying to keep myself in a known accuracy window. 2023 will see me investing in a borescope and probably experimenting with a couple different solvents. Until one has a borescope...hard carbon and carbon ring buildup is just a guess. [/QUOTE]
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