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Posted: 12/28/2008 9:30:49 PM EDT
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I saw something that I have done wrong twice now when cleaning my AR. You are only supposed to send the bore brush in the forward direction from the chamber end. I have been pushing it through back and forth. I only did this twice. Please tell me I did not hurt the barrel? From now on........I will only go the right way and never push and then pull back. Damn.....I should have known that.
GJM |
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Think about this for a second.
You are pulling the trigger, sending 3000 degree hot gas and burning self-oxygenating propellant behind a gilding metal bullet that is deforming, obturating, accelerating and spinning its way down the grooves and lands, over and over again. You really think your little bronze bore brush will do serious damage to a surface that can take that punishment 20-30,000 times without a big problem? |
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I guess I thought everything was made to go in one direction. I was reading my manual last night and it said not to do that, and I realized I had been doing it wrong. Since you put it that way......I think I am ok now. On another note, I have got to learn to strip this stuff and clean it better. I put some cheap ammo through it yesterday. That Wolf stuff is dirty. It cycled it with no problems though. I still think I might not make a habit of using that stuff.
GJM |
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