Thread: Too Much Cleaning
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Old 01-19-2012, 08:56 PM
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Originally Posted by CrazyFingers View Post
Wow, if "bout 40 rounds through my deer rifle requires at least 60 strokes of a bore brush...to get all the copper fouling out of the barrell", then after 2000 rounds of M855 at a 1:1.5 ratio of rounds to brush strokes, you'd need about 3,000 brush strokes to clean those M249s. I guess the bore snake did save you some time, eh?
I can't say I've ever used that many patches on one weapon before either, though. Maybe I'm doing it wrong?
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