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Stop cleaning and just shoot it til acc drops off. Then give it a quick cleaning.

Kinda what I did yesterday Brad. I've never minded a dirty bore it kinda just put me off a bit. The last tube on it shot bugholes with 85 TSX and Magpro and it hadn't seen a patch or brush in probably 400 rounds.

Put some DBC in the bore, and THEN shoot till accuracy drops off.

Cleaning will be quick and painless, too.

You just run DBC in, even with a dirty bore?

I was thinking about honing on it a little with some JB welds.

DBC = Dyna Bore Coat? It might be a good idea to run some patches of JB Bore Cleaner through it to smooth the interior, and even finish it off with JB Bore Polish. Then, if DBC = Dyna Bore Coat, your bore needs to be cleaned down to bare metal, the DBC is allowed to cure for 24 hours, then you take it to the range and fire 10 rounds rapidly to cure it. If you got it sufficiently smooth with the JB products, your copper fouling will all but disappear. However, powder fouling from a 'dirty' powder will still be some what of a problem, but not near as bad as you're experiencing now.

Yeah... I'd really like to get it totally clean, but it's not gonna bum me out if I just shoot the beans out of it dirty... its just a factory tube afterall.

If it was a used tube, maybe it had been shot with moly'd bullets. I'd just shoot it and not fret the cleanliness too much.

The JB bore paste cleans it mechanically (it's a really, really mild lapping compound) whereas other cleaners clean your bore chemically. The JB Bore Polish is an even finer lapping/polishing compound.

Shane the barrel was a new takeoff, but it had just collected a buncha dust and dirt... I'm gonna Jb it soon.

OK. Sometimes new factory barrels are pretty dirty inside. I wonder if they clean them at all between machining and test firing, if they even test fire every rifle.

Makes me wonder as well... I bet not. I'm just trying to keep the college fund the COLLEGE fund... Not the custom barrel fund

GOOD thinking! I'm sure there are people in the world who make their living shooting long range riflery, but your odds are a lot better attending an institution of higher learning and picking a profession that is more in the mainstream.

I'd reckon your average takeoff barrel ain't gonna run with your average custom tube. That said, sure it will offer useable accuracy for your college years.

You have a lot more LR gun than I did at your age. Shoot the crap out of it and learn.

Kinda scary to think where you will be in 20 years.

I gotta go out and practice as the young guys are coming on strong.

Tanner,

John is the only man I know who makes his living shooting out past a mile. A few more guys do it, though I think the number of men who can really shoot to a mile and beyond is probably a pretty small group. But again, I think more than a handful of them post on here.

John,

Post that pic of the gong you hit 3 times out of 3 tries at 1760 (?) yards in Montana last year with a 20 mph cross wind.

This LR stuff is cool... so damn much to learn. I reckon I will stretch the 243s legs out on Monday, got the day off of school

I have good luck with H1000 and 105's in my 243. I run Norma brass, cci 250s, and 47.5 g h1000 under both amaxes and vld's. Both run almost 3100 from my 26" brux and shoot sub 1/2 moa. They both shoot to almost the same poi.

Bb

BB, I've heard really good things about Retumbo and H1000 under the 105s. I'll check them out if H4350 doesn't get me the speeds I'm looking for.

MagnumVagina,
I guess this goes for Gordy Gritters too ???????
Funny how you like to ride other's reputation's instead of having experience of your own.

Magvag,
You are posting riding the coattails of others yet again with no experience of your own.