Posted: 11/29/2002 8:57:35 AM EDT
| Has anyone here ever soaked the inside of their barrel in slick 50 or PTFE or any of those engine treatments that are supposed to permanently bond with the metal? I'm just curious and wanted to know if it would increase velocity. |
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Quoted: Has anyone here ever soaked the inside of their barrel in slick 50 or PTFE or any of those engine treatments that are supposed to permanently bond with the metal? I'm just curious and wanted to know if it would increase velocity. I have a answer for you in general firearm. |
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In a chrome lined bore that isn't really geared towards delivering ultimate accuracy? Sure why not? Every time you clean your bore with CLP that's in effect what you are doing, minute particulates of PTFE getting soaked into the crevices of the bore. But for a match grade gun that has an accurate barrel? Do yourself a favor and keep that wonder stuff out of there, only use solvents that are meant to clean through chemical action and not attack the material of the barrel. Ever hear the folks who use Moly complain about having to work up a new accuracy load for their guns? Once they do the break in with the moly bullets they have to re-adjust their zero for using moly coated loads. Then if they some day want to go back to shooting non-coated bullets, they have to wait for the moly inside the bore to "shoot out" before they start to return to their old pre-moly zero. If you clean your match grade bore with products that contain these PTFEs then don't be surprised if your zero wanders a little bit at the range until it eventually gets shot out of the bore. |