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    Copper Fouling.

    If you have a barrel that doesn't seem to foul excessively....

    How often do you try to remove the copper fouling?
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    Most will say not until you notice a change in accuracy that's measurable from your shooting logged performance. That may vary for your barrel, stated round counts seems to be over 500.
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    Yeah... makes sense. It came up when Pappabear was watching the Magpul Precision shooting video. He says Home Boy doesn't worry about copper that much.... more concerned with carbon fouling.
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    Cold bore vs Clean Bore...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SICfh6iYkpQ

    If you remove copper, you're changing the bearing surface of the barrel. I don't remove copper unless I start to get accuracy problems. Carbon gets removed after every range trip. Just a shot of degreaser and brush, patch until clean, run an oil patch, then a clean patch...done.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bp7178 View Post
    If you remove copper, you're changing the bearing surface of the barrel. I don't remove copper unless I start to get accuracy problems.
    No question that the carbon gets cleaned.... I'm going to leave the copper alone for a while though.
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    I played around with my AI and the Bartlein barreled 700 and nothing matters concerning cleaning methods in regards to the cold bore or clean cold bore.

    From my experience, barrel quality is the main ingredient.
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    I shot a shilen barrel that you could clean out of whack.... but it'd settle back in in 3 shots.

    Our factory 700s stack holes out of the gate.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mark5pt56 View Post
    I played around with my AI and the Bartlein barreled 700 and nothing matters concerning cleaning methods in regards to the cold bore or clean cold bore.

    From my experience, barrel quality is the main ingredient.
    Which was more or less the message in the video. If you start with quality, you'll end with the same.

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    Quote Originally Posted by markm View Post
    I shot a shilen barrel that you could clean out of whack.... but it'd settle back in in 3 shots.

    Our factory 700s stack holes out of the gate.
    That's great for a factory Remington. The 300wm I had was a great barrel as well.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bp7178 View Post
    Which was more or less the message in the video. If you start with quality, you'll end with the same.
    Cleaning is so much easier also. Maybe not the best analogy, but it's a lot easier to wipe mud from glass than a brick.
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