Pitted Barrel Maintenance
- Thread starter dickmills
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0000 wire wool and a light oil. If the outside looks like that what's the inside like?
dickmills
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Thanks that sounds the sort of thing I was thinking might work. Visually looks ok internally, the cheap cleaning rods I bought broke as soon as I offered it up to the barrel, so waiting on a new one to arrive. Seems to be shooting ok after a quick zero session, but didn’t want to go overboard until its had a clean
Poor cleaning rods will ruin your barrel as soon as rust. Decent rods aren’t expensive. Can’t go wrong with Parker hale
dickmills
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It was in a Jack Pyke set I had for the shotguns. To be fair I don’t use them for the shotguns anymore as they are naff so should have know better. Once I have rodded it & given it a good check I was planning on bore snaking after an outing so as not over maintaining, but the thought of putting it away in the cabinet with zero maintenance makes me a bit itchy!
No such thing as over maintaining. A plastic coated rod, nylon or bronze brush and some boretech eliminator will see you right. my bore snake snapped its pull thread in my hmr. It went in the bin and now I only use rods.
Same here. I don't go in for deep cleaning every five minutes, but I do like to make sure my barrel has been pulled through
HonestJohn
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Can’t do shjite about pitting unless you want to start investing in filling them, rebluing and or cerakoating. Polish with very fine wire wool and ballistol/other, carefully a few times with time left in between to let oil penetrate any rust and loosen it. Then keep oiled and live with the pitting.
Smellydog
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Hahmm, I've spoken to my RFD and steps are being taken.
The one in question will be destroyed or I may be tempted to keep it for inserting into undesirables...!
Looking at your photo I’d say that your barrel has been painted as the surface finish is not like any bluing I’ve ever seen. My guess is that it’s got pitted in the past so has been cleaned up & painted (ceracote). If you start using wire wool on it don’t be surprised if you suddenly find you’ve removed the surface coating… if you want to try wire wool then I’d suggest you remove the barrelled action from the stock & test out a small area that is hidden when they are sat in the stock.
dickmills
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Good idea thanks, will do a test area
Koenig
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As Donkey Basher points out, that doesn’t look like blueing - more some kind of weatherproof finish like Cerakote that’s been compromised and pitted as a result. If the rifle is going to be an all weather knockabout tool I’d be tempted to leave it well alone if it shoots well. Obviously don’t put it away wet or damp and you should be OK. As for 17 HMR barrel cleaning, in my experience they tend to fall into two camps: either they need to be clean to group or they literally thrive on being filthy so if you do clean it (as you should do if it’s a new rifle that seemingly hasn’t been well looked after externally) accept that it may take a while to settle down grouping wise afterwards.
dickmills
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Good to know thanks, will be interested to see how it fairs after a clean. Cheers
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