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the

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the we're here at barnes bullets where

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they shoot tens of thousands of rounds

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a year we figure they have some

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expertise on cleaning and care of your

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barrel i'm with kagan of barnes bullets

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kegan you guys go through

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a lot of barrels you do a

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lot of shooting so i want to

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discuss some of the myths associated with

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you know barrel life and barrels in

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general roughly how many barrels do you

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guys go through a year we go

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through roughly little over two hundred a

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year various calibers various makes and brands

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so we've we've seen good and bad

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now so let's talk about the barrel

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life

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in certain calibers six five creedmoor six

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creedmoor three hundred win mag i hear

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varying things what are you seeing in

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the way of of barrel life associated

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with those rounds so we're a little

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different here we have to stay within

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a certain spec and a certain tolerance

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so we'll burn out a barrel a

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little quicker than everybody else but six

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five creedmoor were

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somewhere between two and twenty five hundred

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rounds three away will push them a

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little farther maybe between four and five

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thousand rounds at going through so many

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barrels is a break-in period needed to

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you break your barrels it all depends

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will will have times that we run

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a barrel and it burns out and

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we need one quick we'll just grab

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it out of the safe

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go to fire and we'll see some

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that shoot good some adult if we

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have the time will do a little

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bit of a break in twenty five

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or thirty rounds and then same thing

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we just go to shooting them when

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the mrs you can over clean a

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barrel is that possible it is not

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possible to overcome the barrel though i

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mean we'll we'll have barrels that will

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shoot a group and they'll fail

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our next step is right off the

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bat let's clean it and try it

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again so what barrels that get cleaned

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every ten rounds will have barrels that

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get cleaned every hundred rounds they don't

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wear out quicker or any faster than

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one or the other another myth is

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that running a brush through your barrel

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is harmful yes or no if if

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used correctly and the correct brush no

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what would be the correct brush so

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i know there are polymer their copper

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type brushes what's what's what's the best

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we use mostly a copper or bronze

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style brush is what we found the

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best and the safest we do run

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a few nylon ones they just don't

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seem to do the same job as

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a as a bronzer or copper brush

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i know there are different

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types of rods cleaning rods that can

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use what what are the best and

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maybe what's something to stay away from

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so you want to make sure you're

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using a good coated rod metal coated

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have a good end that's that's good

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and clean good brass jag the other

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type we we've used a little bitter

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carbon fiber same thing

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no scratch and make sure everything's in

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good working order things to stay away

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from our bare metal rods that you

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put together to have a junction point

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those combined up and scratch and and

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dig into the lands and rifling of

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the barrel keg into you mind walking

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us through how you'd go about cleaning

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this bear certainly we can do that

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i said before good rod brass jag

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will use a good bronze brush and

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air barnes we make a cleaner copper

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fallow remover from cr ten so that's

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our go to here

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our first step is just take a

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cotton patch square patch now do you

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like to use a caliber specific passion

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you like a little larger so that

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it's tighter in the barrel so they

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come in a range like this is

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like a twenty two called a twenty

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seven cal there's a given size i'm

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not sure on that but there there

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come in caliber specific

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in a range okay gotcha so then

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we'll dish

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soak it with little cr ten

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then make sure you've got a good

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bore guide want to keep everything square

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and even so you're not catching the

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corners of anything and will dish run

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three patches through here

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if you notice when you these first

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few patches you're getting a lot of

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the black carbon is all you're getting

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you're not getting a ton of copper

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the little bit of blue you are

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seeing is picking up from the jag

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itself not from the copper in the

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barrel

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will do so you'll run a third

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patch and we let it sit for

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awhile and open then we're just going

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to go right to the brush and

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and scrub brush right after that

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it's like anything in this techniques are

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different

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everybody has their own cleaning process and

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and there i mean here at barnes

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we like to to keep our barrels

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fairly clean and like i stated before

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that's that's one of our steps if

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we lose accuracy is is to clean

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it so we try to go fifty

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to seventy five rounds with our copper

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bullets jacketed stuff will push it a

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little farther maybe hundred hundred and fifty

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and then

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we'll get them clean so then we'll

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go to our to our bronze brush

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will soak it with some cr ten

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as well

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and then we're going to go make

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sure you go clear through the barrel

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all the way to the end and

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then from there all the way back

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through to the chamber will do this

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fifteen to twenty times you don't want

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to stop mid lane all the way

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through no midway no snow short strokes

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no just good solid straight

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through push and pull

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and then i usually stop halfway or

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so between just give it a little

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mother shana cr ten on here ok

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this process is already twenty times easier

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and what i do

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give it a white picture on your

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your brushes that you use some brake

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cleaner is our go to something just

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to neutralize the cr ten cleaner okay

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and then we'll go back to our

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now with alcohol work in place of

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that i'm sure alcohol would work

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yeah i mean anything that will neutralize

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the cleaner itself is

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and then we'll just soak another patch

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the first one we like to just

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run straight through the barrel just get

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everything kind of push straight through and

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you'll notice on this one you're getting

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a lot more the blue color that's

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the actual copper fouling coming out after

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you've brushed so are we trying to

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get all of that we're going to

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try every every bit of that out

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i have seen barrels that are a

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little harder to get it out you

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may have a little bit left doesn't

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seem to hurt accuracy if there's just

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a little bit okay but try as

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hard as possible to get every bit

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of it out all right so then

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on this next patch

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will actually do a little

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so we'll just start here at the

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front and just

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work it back and forth so this

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one we're not going all the way

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through we were stopping and okay we're

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i guess kind of short stroke short

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program and certainly is okay

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and yeah i mean you can you

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can look at that one much less

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i mean here's the one we pushed

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out first right right there's the second

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one it's already starting to alright to

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clean up and this could take two

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patches this could take five patches

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i've seen barrels where you got to

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go back in with another brush and

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and scrub and do another scrub through

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with the brush to get everything out

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there's your last patch i would say

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the little bit you're picking up there

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now again is from the jack three

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patches pretty much done so the very

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last step same thing you want to

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neutralize the clue

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enter in the barrel okay so like

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i said our go tos break clean

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will just shoot some brake clean down

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there wow

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and then i just run a couple

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of dry patches behind it

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so that gets that gets the bore

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clean gets everything clean their pull your

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bore guide

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we want to make sure we get

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all the stuff out of the action

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i just use a little bit bigger

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patch my finger

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try to clean

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up everything you've got leftover stock off

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so now we're cleaning a rifle and

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you guys use the rail guns that

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you use for accuracy out on out

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on your range you do the same

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cleaning process for those same exact cleaning

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process yep i mean the only difference

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is we don't have an action and

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everything's screwed onto it it's just a

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pie

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just a pipe so we're as far

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as cleaning the chamber and stuff it's

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much easier so now that you're done

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with that sometimes people suggest putting oil

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in the barrel what's what's your thoughts

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on that so if you're the guy

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that's that's the hunter shoots his gun

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once a year and he's going to

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clean it and put it away for

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the year oil is a great idea

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we'll just take our jag

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take a patch

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our go to oil is just plain

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simple old ram oil just like to

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shoot a little bit on your patch

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and just one swipe

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through the barrel and then very last

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step take your bolt

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bolt grace

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brand not specific just run a little

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bit on each lug

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wow

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that slick alright so we've gone through

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this cleaning process and we're dealing with

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guys that shoot a lot of rounds

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go through a lot of barrels a

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year and you can see that this

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process is pretty straightforward there's all sorts

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of ways that you can do it

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you just have to find out which

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one works best for you

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the