Fascinating read on cleaning your precision .22

[Bill in Oregon]

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/a-gui ... e-shooter/

[marlinman93]

Great article, and his cleaning methods are good also. Only thing I disagree with is his cleaning intervals of 400 rounds. When I shot both adult small bore and .22RF bullseye matches I never cleaned my bores until the season was over. I shot 60 rds. every Wed. night, plus a 60 rd. match on Sat. for bullseye. For adult small bore I shot 50 rds. a week in practice, plus a match Friday night. Almost every other shooter I ever spoke with also refused to clean their bores unless there was a problem, or the season was over. Most felt a .22 bore saw more wear issues by over cleaning than by shooting a lot.

[Bill in Oregon]

Vall, I would be fine with that, too, but would probably take his advice on cleaning just the carbon ring on a more frequent basis.

[GunnyMack]

I learned early on to never clean a rimfire barrel. In school we were told /taught to only clean the action of rimfires 'when they stop working'.
Obviously if a customer wants a complete cleaning I've always told them about how rimfire accuracy will change with a clean bore and as it gets dirty it will improve.
Still a good read and I'm going to try his chamber cleaning only on my new Shilen match barreled 77/22.

[Paladin]

Great article, and his cleaning methods are good also. Only thing I disagree with is his cleaning intervals of 400 rounds. When I shot both adult small bore and .22RF bullseye matches I never cleaned my bores until the season was over. I shot 60 rds. every Wed. night, plus a 60 rd. match on Sat. for bullseye. For adult small bore I shot 50 rds. a week in practice, plus a match Friday night. Almost every other shooter I ever spoke with also refused to clean their bores unless there was a problem, or the season was over. Most felt a .22 bore saw more wear issues by over cleaning than by shooting a lot.

This was my normal operation with cleaning the chamber after each match.

[Old No7]

Good info Bill!

Summary =
"In the end the solution is simple. Keep the good fouling in the rifling, remove the bad fouling in the chamber."

Old No7

[El Chivo]

lately I've taken to just swabbing out the chamber with a q-tip so empties don't jam. But leaving the barrel alone.