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1SHOT1KILL · March 10, 2005, 10:22 AM

You can try to lap the bore some. I would not fire lap however. I would use J-B Bore Cleaning Compound, on a tight fitting patch. The J-B Bore Cleaning Compound is a very, very fine abrasive compound, that with a little elbow grease, will remove minor and fine scratches in the bore. I've used it on several muzzleloader bores that had radial scratches from the reaming prcess that the button rifling process didn't remove. It took about 200 passes, but they are hardl noticeable now, and unless you knew they were there in the first place, you wouldn't notice them at all.

You can get J-B Bore Compound at Brownell's, http://www.brownells.com/aspx/NS/store/ProductDetail.aspx?p=1160&title=J-B%7e+NON-EMBEDDING+BORE+CLEANING+COMPOUND]

and Midsouth Shooters Supplies at http://www.midsouthshooterssupply.com/item.asp?sku=00048083065002

It is easy to use, just saturate the bore with somehting like CLP or Breakfree, apply J-B to a tight fitting patch, make about 25 full passes, resaturate the bore, apply j-b to a new patch and make another 25 full passes, and repeat for atleast 100 passes, then clean and inpsect the bore. Continue until the bore is too your liking, but I don't think you will need over 200 passes, 100 might do it just fine. Remeber to make full passes, not short ones in the scratched area.

March 10, 2005, 10:22 AM	#5
1SHOT1KILL Member Join Date: February 15, 2005 Posts: 15	You can try to lap the bore some. I would not fire lap however. I would use J-B Bore Cleaning Compound, on a tight fitting patch. The J-B Bore Cleaning Compound is a very, very fine abrasive compound, that with a little elbow grease, will remove minor and fine scratches in the bore. I've used it on several muzzleloader bores that had radial scratches from the reaming prcess that the button rifling process didn't remove. It took about 200 passes, but they are hardl noticeable now, and unless you knew they were there in the first place, you wouldn't notice them at all. You can get J-B Bore Compound at Brownell's, http://www.brownells.com/aspx/NS/store/ProductDetail.aspx?p=1160&title=J-B%7e+NON-EMBEDDING+BORE+CLEANING+COMPOUND] and Midsouth Shooters Supplies at http://www.midsouthshooterssupply.com/item.asp?sku=00048083065002 It is easy to use, just saturate the bore with somehting like CLP or Breakfree, apply J-B to a tight fitting patch, make about 25 full passes, resaturate the bore, apply j-b to a new patch and make another 25 full passes, and repeat for atleast 100 passes, then clean and inpsect the bore. Continue until the bore is too your liking, but I don't think you will need over 200 passes, 100 might do it just fine. Remeber to make full passes, not short ones in the scratched area.