Hello, I've an anschutz 1903(it has fired only 4-500 rounds), I use it to 50-100-200-300 m, and it work great but when I clean the barrel with I need to fire something like 80 rounds before to find the previous accuracy. Then is amazing again. I read various theory on the internet, someone not clean at all, other use bullets lube product on the burrel before start to shooting. Can you give me some advice ? Thanks in advance.
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Yanez
Nov 01, 2017
.22 LR cleaning advice
.22 LR cleaning advice
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I've only fire .22LR from an AR platform and found the ammo we were using to be pretty dirty.
That being said, I'd suggest letting the barrel be your guide and clean as outlined here.
Don't know how I missed seeing this, but as a former 3 position smallbore match competitor I do have a great deal of experience specific to .22LR. It is kind of a different ballgame than centerfire. The rifles my team used were Winchester 52D HEAVY bull barrel with Olympic style sights. Weighed in at 19+ pounds and same-hole groups were the accuracy standard. Our cleaning regimen was to run an oiled patch thru the bore at the end of the day IF the rifle would sit unused for more than a couple days (which was not often). The bolt and action got cleaned and oiled daily. The barrel itself was only truly hard-core cleaned (bore brushed and solvent stripped down CLEAN) once a year in the late fall at the end of match season. OR if accuracy fell off on a particular rifle. That only happened once in six years out of 5 rifles that i remember. 5 shots in one hole at 50 feet was the standard. Like you found, once the bore was stripped down it would take 50-100 rounds for the groups to start "one-holing" again. But when each rifle is having a brick of 500 put through it every week that doesn't take long...