Decided after a quick walk with the old boy this morning that today was going to be an ‘indoors’ day & that I’d give the 6.5 a bit of tlc in preparation for the annual ‘Turkey Shoot’ in just over a weeks time.
As background, the 6.5 wears two hats - I use it a lot in the winter on the fallow paired with a GRS stock & an Alpex. It’s also a rifle I use on the range for steels & longer range stuff where it’s paired with a modified AICS stock & a 6-24x56 Diavari with #63 reticle.
Normal barrel cleaning involves use of patches, jags, nylon brush (PB if the cruddite is being stubborn) & some Hoppes #9.
Today I decided I’d take a different approach & use a method I’d stumbled across on t’interweb - VFG cleaning felts with Kroil & JB bore paste for a good ‘deep clean’.
Have used JB bore paste in the past on my 6mmBR which is a tack driver when shiny clean but goes off without warning just like a switch being thrown. A quick scrub with some JB on a patch wrapped around a jag brings it back to sub 1” at 300 yards.
Anyway, gave the barrel a good soak with Kroil & a few passes with a PB brush to soften things up, then a patch soaked in Kroil to push the crud out. Then it was onto the VFG felts with a good smear of JB paste all round & rod stop set so the felt gets about halfway out of the muzzle & can be drawn back in again.
20 passes back & forth, then smear some more JB on before another 20 passes. Then a Kroil soaked felt through back & forth followed by a Kroil soaked patch or two to get crud out. Then repeat cycle for as long as needed to get bore nice & clean & shiny.
Hoping to get a break in the weather at some point to get out & check the zero after putting into the AICS stock & fitting the Diavari.
As background, the 6.5 wears two hats - I use it a lot in the winter on the fallow paired with a GRS stock & an Alpex. It’s also a rifle I use on the range for steels & longer range stuff where it’s paired with a modified AICS stock & a 6-24x56 Diavari with #63 reticle.
Normal barrel cleaning involves use of patches, jags, nylon brush (PB if the cruddite is being stubborn) & some Hoppes #9.
Today I decided I’d take a different approach & use a method I’d stumbled across on t’interweb - VFG cleaning felts with Kroil & JB bore paste for a good ‘deep clean’.
Have used JB bore paste in the past on my 6mmBR which is a tack driver when shiny clean but goes off without warning just like a switch being thrown. A quick scrub with some JB on a patch wrapped around a jag brings it back to sub 1” at 300 yards.
Anyway, gave the barrel a good soak with Kroil & a few passes with a PB brush to soften things up, then a patch soaked in Kroil to push the crud out. Then it was onto the VFG felts with a good smear of JB paste all round & rod stop set so the felt gets about halfway out of the muzzle & can be drawn back in again.
20 passes back & forth, then smear some more JB on before another 20 passes. Then a Kroil soaked felt through back & forth followed by a Kroil soaked patch or two to get crud out. Then repeat cycle for as long as needed to get bore nice & clean & shiny.
Hoping to get a break in the weather at some point to get out & check the zero after putting into the AICS stock & fitting the Diavari.
