I am new on this forum,and new to the airgun community.I have Marauder .22,what is the correct way to clean the barrel?
It may sound stupid,but I do not want to do something that could injure my rifle,the manual has nothing regarding this issue.
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Supercharged86 wrote:Hi ShaneDog, Welcome to the forum, glad to have you with us. I think the general concensus to to avoid the stiff bristle brushes that you would normally use on a traditional powder burner. Just using cleaning patches should surfice. I myself use a Hoppes .177 Boresnake which is brushless. Cheers. Steve
Supercharged86 wrote:Hi ShaneDog, Welcome to the forum, glad to have you with us. I think the general concensus to to avoid the stiff bristle brushes that you would normally use on a traditional powder burner. Just using cleaning patches should surfice. I myself use a Hoppes .177 Boresnake which is brushless. Cheers. Steve
ssscottg wrote:Hi Shane,
There a many ways to skin this cat, and Super's method is good. The goal is to clean it up with zero damage to the lands and grooves, the breech or especially the crown.
I use a crownsaver, which is a soft semi ridgid rope with a loop in the end. Put a plastic drinking straw down the muzzle to get past the baffles. Feed the crownsaver down the muzzle (through the straw). Put a patch in the loop at the breech end. Soak it in your favorite cleaner like Hoppes or a light solvent like pure silicon lube or brake cleaner. And pull the patch thru from breech to muzzle. Repeat till clean. Then run a couple of patches to soak up any left-over cleaner.
You can buy everthing you need from Tim M. of Mac1.
http://www.mac1airgun.com/maintenance.html
For pics.
http://www.airgunsofarizona.com/Crown%20Saver.html
Regards,
Scott
icebug wrote:Supercharged86 wrote:Hi ShaneDog, Welcome to the forum, glad to have you with us. I think the general concensus to to avoid the stiff bristle brushes that you would normally use on a traditional powder burner. Just using cleaning patches should surfice. I myself use a Hoppes .177 Boresnake which is brushless. Cheers. Steve
Steve,
Did you get that Boresnake brushless or you removed the brass brush by yourself?
I have one for .22 and I still didn't try it. Do you think that the brush could do some damage to the O-ring or to the barrel?
Cheers,
d.
Supercharged86 wrote:icebug wrote:Steve,
Did you get that Boresnake brushless or you removed the brass brush by yourself?
I have one for .22 and I still didn't try it. Do you think that the brush could do some damage to the O-ring or to the barrel?
Cheers,
d.
Hi D., The Hoppes .177 Boresnake is "Brushless" but I don't think that's the case on their .22 version. In which case you wouldn't want to use it, like Suburban said, the brass brush would damage the breech o-ring. Good luck, Steve
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