deep cleaning your barrel

[cmn]

Easy there… I have done both. I also have 2 guns that NEVER get polished and deep cleaned. They all kill. Usually the not the arrow it is the Indian… But not because I am lazy. Good steel wool scrubbing and 3m pad never hurts but I don't think any of mine improved more than 10%. I hardly ever wash my Suburban but I just cleaned the entire house so I am not promoting laziness….. We are all excited for Spring!

 

[REN]

Easy there… I have done both. I also have 2 guns that NEVER get polished and deep cleaned. They all kill. Usually the not the arrow it is the Indian… But not because I am lazy. Good steel wool scrubbing and 3m pad never hurts but I don't think any of mine improved more than 10%. I hardly ever wash my Suburban but I just cleaned the entire house so I am not promoting laziness….. We are all excited for Spring!

as i said, if you don't want to do it just because you don't then fine same if you don't see much of an improvement in the pattern to warrant it. My point is if you are not doing it only because you are gonna get it dirty again and don't feel like spending the 15mins to do it then thats just a silly stance IMO.


TO ME it comes down to just taking care of your stuff and going out with he best possible chance at a clean kill regardless of the species. I just never understood the "I don't wanna wash my car because its just gonna get dirty" idea is all. Its not like Deep Cleaning your gun takes much time and you don't have to do it after every shot or anything. Just do it in the spring and go shoot some turkeys.

 

[REN]

Also Lazy may not be the best word to use as i know Catman is a hard worker in general which is why i asked if he was being serious

 

[catman529]

I've seen the instructions on OG on how to polish a barrel, and I'm not going that far with my $170 black gun that I take out in the rain and mud. I'm more concerned with running a couple patches through the barrel to remove the little rust specks from last time I hunted in the rain. My gun isn't a high dollar Franchi with a stained walnut stock, it's a NEF turkey killing hunk of metal that I bought from Walmart, it gets dirty and rusty, I get mud on it and in it, I crawl through the leaves and grass with it, and it would be pointless for me to polish it. I just try to keep it oiled and clean off the rust so it works. I like to think of a shotgun as such and not a high powered scoped rifle where accuracy of a single projectile actually matters.

Now, when I buy a nice shotgun down the road some day, I will definitely take better care of it. But my work horse 12 gauge has earned the nickname "ol rusty" for a reason. Those black guns are almost impossible to keep rust off, they rust before you get back to the truck on a wet day.


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[REN]

I've seen the instructions on OG on how to polish a barrel, and I'm not going that far with my $170 black gun that I take out in the rain and mud. I'm more concerned with running a couple patches through the barrel to remove the little rust specks from last time I hunted in the rain. My gun isn't a high dollar Franchi with a stained walnut stock, it's a NEF turkey killing hunk of metal that I bought from Walmart, it gets dirty and rusty, I get mud on it and in it, I crawl through the leaves and grass with it, and it would be pointless for me to polish it. I just try to keep it oiled and clean off the rust so it works. I like to think of a shotgun as such and not a high powered scoped rifle where accuracy of a single projectile actually matters.

Now, when I buy a nice shotgun down the road some day, I will definitely take better care of it. But my work horse 12 gauge has earned the nickname "ol rusty" for a reason. Those black guns are almost impossible to keep rust off, they rust before you get back to the truck on a wet day.


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i get that but POLISHING it and DEEP CLEANING it are 2 different things. I take my run my $1500 though mud and everything else as well, hell i threw it down a cliff last year so i could get down faster...the cost of a gun should not be relevant. $150 gun or $1500 gun can be taken care of with minor maintenance.

 

[catman529]

The only deep clean mine gets is a wire brush and hoppes 9 followed by cotton patches and rem oil. Usually once before season I clean it like that. It takes more than 15 minutes and I don't do it often and never have counted pellets so I don't know what the pattern improvement would be like


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[Roost 1]

buddy of mine been using a 835 for over 20yrs now and I bet its never had a brush or patch down it, but I bet he can kill turkeys all day long at 50yds and I'll go out on a limb and say that gun has killed more birds than 95% of any gun on TNDEER. Its prolly the uglier than any gun on here... Just saying, to each their own...

 

[Spurhunter]

Washing your truck isn't a good comparison. I don't wash my truck. But you can bet I change my oil. That's a better comparison.

 

[REN]

It's just my opinion which don't mean much but I just never understand why folks wouldn't want to take care of their stuff no matter the cost of the item. To have a gun for 20 years and never clean it is just silly to me,I don't care if it's a crappy 835. I guess just growing up super poor I have a differnt idea of my stuff and how I value it.

End of my rant carry on. Nothing personal to anyone.

 

[Spurhunter]

I thought of a better comparison. The K&N air filter on my truck. If I let it get dirty it hampers performance and efficiency. Therefore I keep it clean. My 870 is no different.

 

[Spurhunter]

I don't care if it's a crappy 835.

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[REN]

Hahah I can't hide my distain for most things mossberg. The only gun I think is crappier is a nova or a P350 but that's again just my opinion. I get folks on a budget though and people like what they like


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[Spurhunter]

Hahah I can't hide my distain for most things mossberg. The only gun I think is crappier is a nova or a P350 but that's again just my opinion. I get folks on a budget though and people like what they like


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I duck hunted one weekend with a nova trying it out. Thought I wanted to buy it. Biggest rattle trap POS I ever shot.

 

[catman529]

Washing your truck isn't a good comparison. I don't wash my truck. But you can bet I change my oil. That's a better comparison.

I oil my gun, maybe a better comparison would be running Sea Foam thru your oil and then changing it, that's a deep clean. However I wont do that on my truck with 320+ K miles, I'm afraid of opening up some leaks if I run sea foam thru the oil. :?

 

[catman529]

Hahah I can't hide my distain for most things mossberg. The only gun I think is crappier is a nova or a P350 but that's again just my opinion. I get folks on a budget though and people like what they like


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my gun is prob crappier than a Mossy. I was going to buy the cheap entry level Mossberg 500 from Walmart in the late winter of 2011, but they were sold out so I got the one that was 10 dollars more expensive, the NEF Pardner Pump 12 gauge Made In China. I feel the Mossy would have been better and know someone who got one. The NEF is everything cheap about a gun that I can tell... sometimes the shells get stuck coming out of the tube or the gun occasionally jams... no serious problems, but the threaded hole for the bead is off center and you can tell the general china-cheapness of the gun manufacture as well as how easily it rusts, and it weights 475 pounds without shells. However, there is too much sentimental value attached, and it's killed a few turkeys, a handful of doves and squirrels and has been carried miles through my stomping grounds so I continue to use it and keep enough oil to make it cycle a round, lol. I'm sure it's not the worst gun, and it has served me well.

Oh and the off-center bead was not the cause of me missing so many turkeys, it only affected the pattern by a couple inches.

 

[AllOutdoors]

I have never polished or deep cleaned my Rem. 870. A bore snake and some rem oil is all it gets. Every time the trigger has been pulled a turkey is tagged.

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[stringtalker]

Hey catman, that H&R pump may be a cheap price gun, but its a dang good gun, ive owned several, yes they are heavy, but they are basically a remington 870 remake. I would not hesitate to buy another one, good shooting guns and never had a problem out of them, from rust either. But any of the guns that have a sandblasted finish will rust easier than others

 

[Spurhunter]

and it weights 475 pounds without shells.

I'm going to tread lightly around you from now on. A man that can carry that gun around all day could probably do some serious damage to a noggin! :tu:

 

[FARMTOFIELD]

and it weights 475 pounds without shells.

I'm going to tread lightly around you from now on. A man that can carry that gun around all day could probably do some serious damage to a noggin! :tu:

This made me Crack up, I'm not sure what those guns weigh, but there ain't much difference in my 10 gauge and the h and r like cat has

 

[catman529]

and it weights 475 pounds without shells.

I'm going to tread lightly around you from now on. A man that can carry that gun around all day could probably do some serious damage to a noggin! :tu:

This made me Crack up, I'm not sure what those guns weigh, but there ain't much difference in my 10 gauge and the h and r like cat has

yeah, I think I remember that 10 gauge being heavy. That was a cool gun though. I'd be scared to shoot a turkey load from one of them.

I don't know what my gun weighs, but I know that every time I pick up another 12 gauge it feels really light.


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