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Do you chaps use to clean your rimfire barrels and actions?

You want to clean a rimfire barrel?!!!

Seriously though. I rarely do more than run a boresnake through mine & when I do, it's a good scrub out with a bronze brush & Hoppe's #9.
The bolt & action get cleaned with a mixture of Hoppe's & isopropyl alcohol to remove all the waxy crap, followed by a light application of Ballistol.

I don't clean them if they start to malfunction I might think about it.

When I was shooting mini mag and stinger ammo the gritty deposits were terrible so I was having to clean the whole gun after 200-300 rounds. Since going to CCI standard in the CMMG things have got a lot cleaner .
I was just asking out of curiosity what people use but so far its seems cleaning a rimmy is not the done thing

Ed's Red.

dromia wrote:Ed's Red.

What he said Edds red if you must.

Gazza wrote:Do you chaps use to clean your rimfire barrels and actions?

Parker Hale 009 or Phillips for cleaning and Ballistol for lubrication.

I'm one of those anal people who clean their rimmies after every shooting session, whether it's target shooting or 'plinking'.

I usually put a dry patch through my rimfires unless they've become gummed up when I will pay a bit of extra attention to the chamber.

They say over cleaning a .22Lr is a worse cause of wear than shooting them.

Also it takes a few fouling shots to get them shooting again after a full clean.

Brunox and regularly too
I cleaned my benchrest 22 rifle this week and it shot the first two rounds straight in the dead centre of the bull - no 'running it in' after cleaning it needed

I clean all my guns with Napier Gun Cleaner/Lubricant. I don't properly clean my .22's barrels, just a pull through with a bore snake to get the big bits out. (I use C2R on centre-fire barrels).

I shoot my .22's competitively where a jam will basically cost you at least a stage if not the match so just running them til they gum up isn't an option.