Cleaning question

[Beluebow]

There is no downside to keeping your rifle clean. Best easy way to get one clean quick is do it while they are hot.

 

[Phil Rizzo]

The crud definitely breaks loose easier for Me, with some heat.

At least the top layer or 5!

 

[Muddyboots]

The wild card is always powder and bullet used. Either one can influence barrel cleaning frequency. Copper reducing powders, mono's versus cup core along with round count can be significantly different for specific rifles. Barrel bores can be the major contributor to frequency. We all have that one barrel that just "muddies" up faster.

I have a Teslong and went down that one barrel and put it away. Rifle shoots despite what the Teslong shows.

 

[Phil Rizzo]

I've only tried 2 Brux barrels so far, both were put into service the last 6 months.
They clean up easily, have from the the first rounds fired. Another is my 7Mega wearing a Krieger. It's great also. I know some of that has to do with machining but the difference in these versus the others I'm "used to" is daylight and dark.

Question: why are so many top barrel companies in Wisconsin? Packer fans?

 

[Taylorbok]

Question: why are so many top barrel companies in Wisconsin? Packer fans?

I think it's because Boots Obermeyer who was a high end barrel maker was in WI and trained several people to build barrels. Pretty sure Kreiger came from Obermeyer and I think Bartlein came from Kreiger.