cleaning air rifle barrels

I see AHG (Anschutz) sell felt pellets to shoot through and clean target 177 cal airguns.
Can anyone tell us if this is worthwhile for sub olympic level shooters ?

If so, do you use oil, teflon or what on them ?

How about a patch on a pull through or rod ?

I very gently put some with hoppes down my springer barrel the other day and quite a lot of black deposit came out. Presumably it was old oil / grease out of the cylinder.

When I was younger I used to clean my air rifle barrel and oil it regularly...till I clicked that it was the reason I was getting dieseling. While it sounded cool, it also contributed to a broken the main spring.

I would guess it really depends on how far you are shooting it, as to whether a dirty Vs clean barrel has any effect.

i used to wash mine out with mercury, it dissolves all the lead out of the rifling grooves very well then run a dry patch thru afterwards

The doubles ended ear cleaner things work good. A little oil on the first one then dry after that

Have had the felt pellets for years well before Anschutz marketed them. In my 177 I just used to fire 2 at time with Hoppes 9 followed up with a few to dry out. Having said that my 177 hardly ever gets cleaned.
Don't let oil get back into cylinder as already pointed out.

I actually have a 177 cleaning rod somewhere but no jag for it.

As kids we used to think it cool to put drops of 3 in 1 oil into the cylinder and fire the rifle. Nice bit of smoke and we thought it made the gun more powerful.
Somewhere I have a small bottle of, IIRC, silicon oil for lubricating, sparingly, air rifle cylinders.

More recently I have bought the VGF (Anschutz) felt pellets in 22 cal but also have the special cleaning rod tip for them. A lot of the smallbore guys use this system. The felt pellets come in 2 styles - standard felt and a more aggressive felt that appears to have minute copper strands in it.
I use this system to clean my 22 PCP (on the very rare occasions I clean it) and for cleaning some of my 22 rf rifles.

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Originally Posted by zimmer

Have had the felt pellets for years well before Anschutz marketed them. In my 177 I just used to fire 2 at time with Hoppes 9 followed up with a few to dry out. Having said that my 177 hardly ever gets cleaned.
Don't let oil get back into cylinder as already pointed out.

I actually have a 177 cleaning rod somewhere but no jag for it.

As kids we used to think it cool to put drops of 3 in 1 oil into the cylinder and fire the rifle. Nice bit of smoke and we thought it made the gun more powerful.
Somewhere I have a small bottle of, IIRC, silicon oil for lubricating, sparingly, air rifle cylinders.

More recently I have bought the VGF (Anschutz) felt pellets in 22 cal but also have the special cleaning rod tip for them. A lot of the smallbore guys use this system. The felt pellets come in 2 styles - standard felt and a more aggressive felt that appears to have minute copper strands in it.
I use this system to clean my 22 PCP (on the very rare occasions I clean it) and for cleaning some of my 22 rf rifles.

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3 drops of either worked well and provided a nice blue muzzle flash. at the time i was gluing small rifle primers onto the 22cal pellets.

p.s rats smell awful when they explode

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Originally Posted by mimms2

Hey we've all done it.
I'm of the vintage where we had aerosol CRC though... 2 second squirt after you've cocked it was optimal (and accurate). 3 seconds was too much.


Didn't help that the uncle had a german(?) air rifle that was actually designed to diesel, you put esther (?) or isopropyl (?) in it. (VHS head cleaner worked)
Rattling a few lonely braincells there...

Depends on the airgun.Modern rubber seal silicon probably fine. CRC sell it in some quantity (for refilling viscous fan hubs) =cheap.
The old seals were leather buckets. Tallow, neatsfoot, dubbin. I'm sure there's something official, but I'm also sure most people gave up airguns before they shot them out.

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it would have been a walther, they came with an either injection add on.