I recently bought a Tikka SV from a farmer friend as I know the rifle shoots straight, however I knew that it has never once been cleaned. In with the bore scope and found the obvious. Scrubbed and scrubbed with eliminator and carbon remover for a couple of hours or more over a period of 2 evenings and back in with the bore scope. Still rammed with ingrained carbon fouling the entire length of the bore. Bought some Thorroclean from Spud and revisited the rifle. 25 strokes with a brush loaded with product, flushed, bore scope back in, 75% gone. Repeated previous process, scope in, bore gleaming like new! No carbon ring, no copper, no carbon, zilch! The patches of black gloop that came out were quite satisfying to say the least.
Impressive!
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If, as you say, it shot straight when you bought it, you do realise that now you've upset the delicate equilibrium by cleaning it it's not going to be anywhere near as accurate as it was before?
None of my rifles have had a bore clean since I bought them. They get a drag through with a boresnake after each firing, and I leave it at that. I'd take your bore scope, wrap it into a tight coil, and throw the bloody thing in the bin
Just think, if you hadn't cleaned it your shots might have hit the red disc you were presumably aiming for.......
Looks good. I try and keep my rifles nice and clean despite what some of the heathens above have put...but you have to think that the mighty .270 shoots well all the time...its not fussy like my gaymoor ...well thats what Im going to get back
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