Rustydust
Active member
I have had my new Lyman Bore scope for a few weeks now. I got it after reading about it from some of you guys and talking to one of you (thanks, Keith!) and having one of you bring his over to my house and demonstrate it for me (thanks, Matthew!). Now that squirrel season is over
I figured that I may as well give all my guns a really good cleaning before I put them away for a few long months.
As some of you have mentioned, it's dang near amazing how dirty a "clean" barrel can actually be. Guns that I thought were ready to go in the safe for a while proved that they were not anywhere near clean enough for a long slumber. My .204 and my .223 AI that I thought were clean both had long streaks of copper in rifling. Dang! How was I getting clean patches out of the gun? Anyway, I have around a dozen of so very kinds of bore cleaner on the shelf so decided to see what does the job and getting that superglued copper out of my barrels.
On both the .204 and the .223 AI I decided to try what has worked in the past for me: JB bore paste and Kroil. Just wanted to try that first. After wetting the barrel with Kroil I smeared JB all over a tight patch and ran it back and forth through the barrel about 20 times. Then I cleaned out JB goop with a couple of patches of Kroil followed by a dry patch followed by some alcohol damped patches then more dry patches before I put the bore scope back in. Tah-dah! Just a tiny almost invisible bit of copper remained. I soaked another patch with some Warthog 1134 bore cleaner and stroked the barrel a few more times. Then some dry patches and followed by some more alcohol patches and more dry patches. That did it! Same results with both guns. I was down to bare metal now all through the bore. Had I not tried used the bore scope on them to see what I had missed before I would not have gotten them clean because I would have thought that they were clean when they were not.
Obviously, my technique may not be the same as what most of you use but I have been rather lackadaisical about my gun cleaning. If it was shooting well then I might hit it with a few solvent soaked patches followed by a couple of dry ones and put it away. Guess I wont be dong that anymore. For sure not as much anyway.
So yeah- glad I got the thing now. No more wondering if my barrels are clean or not. If in doubt just look in them and see. A real eye opener for sure. Cleaning my guns for over 40 years and thought I was doing it right. Live and learn.
Just wish that it would fit my .172" bore guns. But finding what works got get stubborn fouling out with my other guns will help me to try different techniques with the sub calibers as well. And if Lyman ever makes a .17 caliber wand for this device you can bet that I will be buying one. They are just too dang handy. Glad I got mine.
As some of you have mentioned, it's dang near amazing how dirty a "clean" barrel can actually be. Guns that I thought were ready to go in the safe for a while proved that they were not anywhere near clean enough for a long slumber. My .204 and my .223 AI that I thought were clean both had long streaks of copper in rifling. Dang! How was I getting clean patches out of the gun? Anyway, I have around a dozen of so very kinds of bore cleaner on the shelf so decided to see what does the job and getting that superglued copper out of my barrels.
On both the .204 and the .223 AI I decided to try what has worked in the past for me: JB bore paste and Kroil. Just wanted to try that first. After wetting the barrel with Kroil I smeared JB all over a tight patch and ran it back and forth through the barrel about 20 times. Then I cleaned out JB goop with a couple of patches of Kroil followed by a dry patch followed by some alcohol damped patches then more dry patches before I put the bore scope back in. Tah-dah! Just a tiny almost invisible bit of copper remained. I soaked another patch with some Warthog 1134 bore cleaner and stroked the barrel a few more times. Then some dry patches and followed by some more alcohol patches and more dry patches. That did it! Same results with both guns. I was down to bare metal now all through the bore. Had I not tried used the bore scope on them to see what I had missed before I would not have gotten them clean because I would have thought that they were clean when they were not.
Obviously, my technique may not be the same as what most of you use but I have been rather lackadaisical about my gun cleaning. If it was shooting well then I might hit it with a few solvent soaked patches followed by a couple of dry ones and put it away. Guess I wont be dong that anymore. For sure not as much anyway.
So yeah- glad I got the thing now. No more wondering if my barrels are clean or not. If in doubt just look in them and see. A real eye opener for sure. Cleaning my guns for over 40 years and thought I was doing it right. Live and learn.
Just wish that it would fit my .172" bore guns. But finding what works got get stubborn fouling out with my other guns will help me to try different techniques with the sub calibers as well. And if Lyman ever makes a .17 caliber wand for this device you can bet that I will be buying one. They are just too dang handy. Glad I got mine.
