tubb's bore conditioning bullets
Has anyone used the Tubb's bore conditioning bullets? I just got me reloading mag from cabela's and they are carrying this system. Page 22. It appears the ideas is to reload 50 bullets with variouos abrasive coatings and then fire them. hereby smoothing and polishing the barrel, throat etc. Is this something I would want to do to a new springfield 1911a1? Has anoyone done this and noticed a diffrence in the accuarcy of the gun?
muss
muss
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The process better known as "Fire Scrapping" is best reserved for use as a last ditch effort to salvage a junk barrel, before turning it into a tomato stake.
NO decent barrel should ever be subjected to such poor treatment.
JMHO of course.
Some guys like a mag full of lead, I still prefer one round to the head.0 -
ditto Tailgunner1954.
why chase the game when the bullet can get em from here?....
Got Balistics?0 -
Tailgunner, JustC: you guys hit the nail on the head.
Nothing like running some sandpaper down the bore.[:0]
Bolt
PEACE THROUGH SUPERIOR FIREPOWER0 -
Try Tetra.
Best yet, Miltech.
Happy Bullet Holes!0 -
Also called "fire lapping" the barrel.
Only use if you have a "sick" barrel and nothing else is working, and before you spend that kind of money ... try taking a worn cleaning brush, wraping it with a cleaning patch then coating the patch with some valve polishing compound (not grinding ... polishing). Work the compound coated patch 10-12 times, change patches and repeat. That should smooth out any tooling roughness in a new barrel and/or tune up an older barrel.
If you only have time to do two things so-so, or one thing well ... do the one thing!0 -
muss, just to make it 6-0, this "system" is a quick way to justify buying a Wilson Combat replacement barrel for your new semi-auto. I've used some light applications of polishing compound to reduce fouling in older rifles which were pretty ugly, but no way would I think of using such a product in a new firearm.
"There is nothing lower than the human race - except the French." (Mark Twain)0 -
This makes it 7-0. I have used JB's Bore Paste to polish up older rifles, but don't do it to a new rifle.
He Dog0 -
I may be off base here, but I don't think TUBB writes for PRECISION SHOOTING anymore. Seems like there was some problem with some product he was promoting!
CONTENDER MAN, JB Bore Paste will do what you are prescribing. Not a new gun fix but and old, "It just won't shoot like it used too" fix for the ones that come into the local shop from people who don't know how to clean a barrel!!!! GHD0 -
See related thread, "Bore Polishing" by Steve4102, currently on this forum. 0 -
Your right, I'm just cheap and the valve polishing paste is cheaper than JB [:D][:D]
If you only have time to do two things so-so, or one thing well ... do the one thing!0
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