How often do you clean your suppressed hunting rifle?

[OG-danimal]

Curious on everyone's experience. Seems like these cans put a ton of carbon in the barrel. My range days usually consist of 10-20 rounds depending on what I'm doing. Probably twice a month or so. What do you do?

 

[bultinkle]

I Don't

 

[HandgunHTR]

I Don't

Me either.

 

[WanderingGoatie]

Gas gun, every couple hundred rounds if it's getting gummy. Bolt guns… rarely. Prairie dog shoots I'll probably tear apart the whole gun and deep clean, but that's about 400ish rounds or more of heavy fire.

 

[Euler]

For bolt guns, same as unsuppressed. Most barrels I've had benefit from a cleaning every 200 - 400 rounds.

 

[Roughrice]

When accuracy tends to fall below what it's capable of.
My suppressed bolt guns do get carbon buildup a bit quicker than unsuppressed.

 

[just_jon]

Most get cleaned every 100 shots or so. The 17 Rem and 204 Ruger get cleaned about every 50 rounds. Suppressor gets broken down and cleaned when it gains 2 oz.

 

[Tom264]

Never

 

[Roughrice]

Yeah… different rifles act differently to carbon buildup from suppressor.

My son has a Proof 7 SAUM that will tell you pretty quick when it's time to clean as the groups will go up to 1 moa or a bit more.
That's around 50-60 rounds with suppressor.

Two or three wet patches and a couple dry with a crown cleaning and it's back to .5 after 2 fouling shots.

 

[huntsman22]

I clean the carbon off the crown once in a while, but that's it.

 

[Sdvldog1371]

When I have heavy carbon on the crown I will check for carbon ring. If I have a carbon ring I scrub it out and clean the crown, run a bronze brush 3-5 passes and then dry patch and inspect with the bore scope. I don't clean to bare metal anymore. Ever since I went to quality barrels that don't copper foul, I just track round count between accuracy drop off and clean accordingly. Or, as mentioned carbon ring and crown.

 

[highfinblue]

Only when accuracy calls for it on hunting rifles. The ones I shoot more often I'll clean occasionally, but usually not until my groups start opening up. At least a dirty barrel is my excuse, probably too much caffeine. I try to not shoot without a suppressor, the lack of noise and recoil is more than enough reason for me to love them.