Thread: Hornady Podcast Barrel life data

Originally Posted by Beavis

Haven't listened to the whole series but what I've heard so far, they haven't actually quantified what they mean by cleaning. Cleaning down to the bare barrel steel? A quick carbon scrub? A full decarbon?

On the podcast, they seemed to be meaning a pretty serious de-carbon/de-copper clean at those intervals. They imply that more regular cleaning might improve barrel life, but I’m not sure they have enough data for that, or to say how much difference it might make (yet).