09-27-2024, 12:45 PM
Late reporting back, but I did the "one and clean" for the first 5 shots, and could feel the difference with the effort needed on my cleaning rod with every cleaning. Started shooting three shot groups and cleaning, but after a few I noticed that the first shot was off. Also didn't feel any change in feel with the cleaning rod, so stopped the extra cleaning.
I'd say that on my barrel, the smoothing out I could feel with the cleaning rod was done in about 10 shots. I've also found that my first shot from the cold clean bore is a flyer from the group that follows that shot. Those were off by up to an inch at 100 yards. Some bullets were worse than others with that too.
I've subsequently spent an afternoon doing a deep cleaning with Wipe Out and Accelerator on a few rifles, and every one took a few shots to get back to what it was doing before I cleaned them.
For me, and everyone can make their own choices on this, I'm going to throttle back on the cleaning for the Howa Mini.
I'd say that on my barrel, the smoothing out I could feel with the cleaning rod was done in about 10 shots. I've also found that my first shot from the cold clean bore is a flyer from the group that follows that shot. Those were off by up to an inch at 100 yards. Some bullets were worse than others with that too.
I've subsequently spent an afternoon doing a deep cleaning with Wipe Out and Accelerator on a few rifles, and every one took a few shots to get back to what it was doing before I cleaned them.
For me, and everyone can make their own choices on this, I'm going to throttle back on the cleaning for the Howa Mini.