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PCP - HPA - C02 Gate => PCP DarkSiders Forum => : TCups May 20, 2009, 12:23:35 PM
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What is the appropriate way to clean the barrel of a PCP after it has had about 2000 rounds and is beginning to get some shot-to-shot variability in the POI?
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T, all I ever did was use some 50 or 100# fishing line with a slip knot to pull some patches through it. The first few with Beeman cleaner, then some dry ones until they looked good.
Back in the day I would always lube my pellets with a drop or two of beeman chamber lube. Roll them around in it until they were coated. Don't know if it helped but most everybody was doing it back then.
I like the fishing line thing because there is no way to scratch the barrel.
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I've been cleaning the barrels of my Air Force Talon and Condor the same way I clean my springers,,,, with the weed whacker line, patches and just a bit of Goo-gone. It's been working very well.
Jeff
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I just use cleaning pellets. I just soak a drop of oil on them and shoot them out. Then I usually follow with a dry one. They are easy to use and if your real cheap you can try to find them after you shoot them and re use them : ) I have to use them in my Logun MKII because of the design of the sliding breech and in-line magazine. I could remove the barrel and clean it, but I won't do that unless absolutely necessary. Not as effective at cleaning as a patch on a rod or flexible line, but they're better than nothing.
Nathan
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Send it to me Tommy, I'll clean it for ya!!!!!!
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It's all shiny clean now. I was intent on shooting a 150 on the PCP Steroid match but I kept getting a little shift in the POI -- pesky 9's. There was a bit of wind, too. I will try again the weekend to see if I can do better.
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Shhhh!!!! Trying to keep it a secret, but "someone" may have sold one of their really nice Air Arms PCP's and bought themselves a really nice springer. I wont say who it was because I, I mean "they" are very proud of their PCP's. Brown Santa's website shows a box in route to Texas, and I think it may just have an HW97 MKIII inside it. Should look nice next to my, I mean "their" custom AA S200. Ok, I admit it, it's me, I've gone to the "springier" side of airguns again. :) :) :) :) :)