New barrel is a dream to clean

[Cyres]

So my new Bartelin .204 barrel has just shot 50 rounds. Thought I give it a clean as old Savage needed a clean every 50.
I just gave it a gentle scrub out with Bore Tech Elliminator followed by a soaked patch and 4 dry patches.
That's all it took. No signs of copper and minimal fouling.

Very pleased.

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[Border]

What length and twist rate did you go for?

 

[Rake Aboot]

What is this “ barrel cleaning “ of which you speak?

 

[Cyres]

It's 22 inch 1:10 so ideal for 39/40's.
It also seems to like 50 grn Bergers so roe legal in Scotland. Fortunately I have 3 box's of 50 grns so I doubt I will ever run out.
I gave it a clean as I felt it was shooting right so before re zeroing I decided to clean it just in case. It turned out it was shooting 20mm R at 50 yds so 3 shots had it bang on at 50yds.
My Savage used to loose accuracy after about 50 rounds but that might have been due to the shot out barrel so now a learning curve to see when to clean the new barrel.
Also as its used almost exclusively with NV it's difficult to assess accuracy changes.
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