Thread: cleaning a 22lr my thoughts

@Ftx325 and @MB

if that's what you prefer do it that way im not gonna try and stop you certainly better than a rifle that hasn't been cleaned 50years bet be known that you will have flyers from the 1st few rounds 99% chance that wont affect hunting accuracy though

and you put them away fouled with the wax and oils from the bullets which will stop the bore from corroding aswell as anything you could put in there not dirty and wet

Originally Posted by rambo-6mmrem

@Ftx325 and @MB

if that's what you prefer do it that way im not gonna try and stop you certainly better than a rifle that hasn't been cleaned 50years bet be known that you will have flyers from the 1st few rounds 99% chance that wont affect hunting accuracy though

and you put them away fouled with the wax and oils from the bullets which will stop the bore from corroding aswell as anything you could put in there not dirty and wet

The 22 of mine that gets used 99 % of the time is a stainless Marlin pappose so simple to just run a rod with an oily patch down the removed barrel a couple of times when home . Just a force of habit I think more than anything . And I find cleaning my rifles relaxing and something I enjoy doing (yep , definitely a fruit loop!)
I don't get carried away though with brushes scrubbing it out so 'clean' is used loosely for that rifle . I wouldn't want to use it as a drinking straw .....

Originally Posted by Ftx325

The 22 of mine that gets used 99 % of the time is a stainless Marlin pappose so simple to just run a rod with an oily patch down the removed barrel a couple of times when home . Just a force of habit I think more than anything . And I find cleaning my rifles relaxing and something I enjoy doing (yep , definitely a fruit loop!)
I don't get carried away though with brushes scrubbing it out so 'clean' is used loosely for that rifle . I wouldn't want to use it as a drinking straw .....

Same, just patches.