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snuffy · July 12, 2012, 04:37 PM

In the first place, if a gun won't shoot from a hot fouled barrel, it gets sold. I'm not going to fiddle with a finicky rifle that HAS to be clean and cold to shoot well.

Define cold! Middle of the winter here it could be -20 degrees. Then a barrel will be cold in 30 seconds. Back last week, it hit 98 degrees with high humidity. I doubt 20 minutes between shots would have resulted in a "COLD BARREL". A few minutes in the hot sun, a blurd barrel will be hot WITHOUT shooting.

Once you have a load established, leave the barrel alone. As long as you'll be shooting it again within a month. Modern ammo and reloads are NOT corrosive. If you're going to store the gun for like a year, then a cleaning and an oily patch will prevent the copper fouling from turning green.

July 12, 2012, 04:37 PM	#6
snuffy Senior Member Join Date: May 20, 2001 Location: Oshkosh wi. Posts: 3,055	In the first place, if a gun won't shoot from a hot fouled barrel, it gets sold. I'm not going to fiddle with a finicky rifle that HAS to be clean and cold to shoot well. Define cold! Middle of the winter here it could be -20 degrees. Then a barrel will be cold in 30 seconds. Back last week, it hit 98 degrees with high humidity. I doubt 20 minutes between shots would have resulted in a "COLD BARREL". A few minutes in the hot sun, a blurd barrel will be hot WITHOUT shooting. Once you have a load established, leave the barrel alone. As long as you'll be shooting it again within a month. Modern ammo and reloads are NOT corrosive. If you're going to store the gun for like a year, then a cleaning and an oily patch will prevent the copper fouling from turning green. __________________ The more people I meet, the more I love my dog They're going to get their butts kicked over there this election. How come people can't spell and use words correctly?