Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-lcc!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!jade!jkh From: jkh@jade.BERKELEY.EDU (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: mod.rec.guns Subject: Submission for mod-rec-guns Message-ID: <2291@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Wed, 21-Jan-87 19:01:34 EST Article-I.D.: jade.2291 Posted: Wed Jan 21 19:01:34 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 22-Jan-87 20:25:33 EST Organization: U.C. Berkeley Lines: 20 Approved: jkh@ucbjade Author: Mark O'Shea Article: 1:40 When I was shooting competitively in the service our coaches would not allow us to clean the barrels at all before or during a match. After a match we cleaned the moving parts (match grade M1s) and lightly oiled them. We ran a patch thru the bore coated with nitro solvent then a dry patch and that was it. Their theory was that the less wear on the barrel the better. I know that I shot the same gun for two years, put about 5000 rounds thru it and at the end of that two years it was as accurate as the day I got it. The scores posted by that gun were a function of the shooters ability not the gun. I have continued to practice this cleaning method with my personal weapons. -- Mark O'Shea marko@tekecs.GWD.TEK Tektronix, Inc. Willieville, Orygun