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We have been cooling our barrels with water Down the bore since the mid 80's on dog towns. We rigged up quart and two quart water bottles with a hose that comes from them(parts available from Home Depot). IV bottles work great if you have access to them. We chose a hose dia that fits tight in the rear of our Bore guides. Also, Bore guides have an o ring on the front of them to keep water from getting down in the action. Use Neil Jones Rod GuidesPhone 814-763-2769 EST)

Remove the bolt from the rifle, insert the bore guide, run The hose into the back of the rod guide, with a tight fit, incline the muzzle downward position, hold the water bottle up. Gravity feed the water through the bore, 6 oz of water will cool the bore dead cool.

Rockwell's #1 engineer came up with this idea as he was aware that barrels do not really cool down on p. dog shooting, even if you rotate between 6 rifles.

Next we use a tight punch type jag and push 4 tight patches down the barrel, dry the chamber, back to shooting in 3 minutes!

We use this method on the very finest custom varmint, big game, and deer rifles...never has hurt a thing.

Also, seems like shooting strings are longer due to the fact that there is some cleaning going on.

This worked very fine on p. dog towns. We had a rifle cradle made up that stood on 4 legs, we rotated rifles into the cradle, then ran water down all the barrels at one time. It saved a lot of wear and tear on the barrels and we got to shoot a lot more.

At times we ran out of water and used mountain dew, pepsi, and beer on a couple of occasions. Rifles seem to shoot better when cooled with beer. We were shooting 1000 rounds of centerfire each per day on those long dog towns.

The only scary thing about this deal is if you do not use a tight punch type jag down the barrel...this ain't rocket science at all!

Remember, 4 dry patches down the barrel on a tight fitting jag, dry the chamber, back to shooting in 3 minutes

Back at the turn of the last century, lots of people were afraid of moving the toilet indoors instead of going out side to the "Outhouse", don't be afraid of using water down the bore. Barrel steel would have to get to be 800* before the water would have any affect on it, besides we have a long history of it's use.

Have fun!