Posted: 11/8/2014 4:35:00 AM EDT
| Please share your stories of crown damage. I hear about it all the time but have never actually seen it. What's the best way to avoid it while cleaning? |
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Crown damage is almost always caused by improper cleaning, from the muzzle. Preventing it is easy:
Clean with the rod inserted from the breech, not the muzzle. Use a bore guide. Once a patch/brush has exited the muzzle, remove it before extracting the rod (cleaning is in one direction, in other words). No worries. |
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Bought a win 94 in 32 ws from my uncle
Ran a quick partial box of ammo through it then set it aside. Years later after uncle passed I pulled it out , cleaned it up and started shooting it some , found it was pretty sloppy on targets (8-10" @ 100yd with peep sight off bench) Gun had been treated poorly and had a lightly pitted surface finish and a pretty dark bore After looking with strong light and a glass found some nicks at the crown . Read an article in some gun rag about "cutting " a new crown . Way back when computer mice had a rubber coated steel ball . I grabbed one and coated it with polishing compound and went to town until I had a nice uniform bright ring on the nicked crown . Cheap factory ammo , 3-4" at 100 off bench with bags . Couldn't have been more pleased . This was not heavy wear , just a couple of hits with a cleaning rod , hard to believe a few small nicks could mess things up so bad. Now of course mouse balls are extinct , I have not tried it but heard tell of folks using a round head screw (brass?)with compound chucked in a drill |
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Crown damage is almost always caused by improper cleaning, from the muzzle. Preventing it is easy: Clean with the rod inserted from the breech, not the muzzle. Use a bore guide. Once a patch/brush has exited the muzzle, remove it before extracting the rod (cleaning is in one direction, in other words). No worries. This is correct. Skip to 4:25 for why 
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