HMR Cleaning / Zero Issues

[hotel2zero 0]

Following on from this post i have now sorted out the problems with losing zero all the time.

 

I NOW clean after every outing, even if i only fire 3 rounds, bore snake, entire rifle and mod get a going over, and what a difference it makes.

 

after the clean it'll take me 2/3 rounds to get back to previously set zero.

 

this picture show the 10 rounds i fired after i cleaned this morning:

 

 

The 1st and 2nd shot were off slightly, but as shown here the 3rd was with-in 3/4 '' of target.

 

(today i was using the tripod, so standing - resting off the tripod and still a 3/4'' group)

 

 

PS - fitted the Eric Brooks trigger kit last night, it has transformed the actions of this rifle - unreal.

 

Thanks everyone

 

Carl

Edited March 4, 2009 by hotel2zero

[markbivvy 6]

I NOW clean after every outing, even if i only fire 3 rounds, bore snake, entire rifle

 

i bore snake every rifle after use, but i dont class it as cleaning .

cleaning a rifle means to me ,copper remover,brush,patches, and a fair bit of time.

i dont think what your doing is wrong, but you may find after a few hundred rounds it will want a proper clean.

well done with it.

[hotel2zero 0]

I NOW clean after every outing, even if i only fire 3 rounds, bore snake, entire rifle

 

i bore snake every rifle after use, but i dont class it as cleaning .

cleaning a rifle means to me ,copper remover,brush,patches, and a fair bit of time.

i dont think what your doing is wrong, but you may find after a few hundred rounds it will want a proper clean.

well done with it.

 

with bore foam, copper remover, brush. after about 100 rounds

 

makes me laugh when i see the 4 people that voted on my poll and answered - NEVER to cleaning! lol

[Deker 3,491]

I NOW clean after every outing, even if i only fire 3 rounds, bore snake, entire rifle

 

i bore snake every rifle after use, but i dont class it as cleaning .

cleaning a rifle means to me ,copper remover,brush,patches, and a fair bit of time.

i dont think what your doing is wrong, but you may find after a few hundred rounds it will want a proper clean.

well done with it.

 

 

Totally agree, not looking for grief or debate, we all have our own ways of doing things, but the Bore Snake was originally "invented" to give the shotgun a quick once over when you had finished with it in the field as the Nitro powders in many cartridges was so corrosive.

 

It has been developed and marketed now as a clean all solution..it isn't!!!

 

...and be very careful to pull straight out of the barrel and not always over the side of the crown!!