How to clean your Airgun Barrel and Weigh & Sort Pellets for better Accuracy
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- In this video I will show you how I clean my airgun barrel and sort Pellets by weight. I also show how important it can be to measure the head size for even more consistency
This is the best and cheapest way i have ever seen to clean a Barrel.I really like this video thank you so much
I know this is an old video, but thank you for taking the time to make this! I just used the string technique and was done cleaning in record time.
Just a quick tip. I also use swabs on a string. If you simply open the breach and hold a vacuum cleaner hose over the muzzle, you can suck the pulling end of the string right thru baffles and all. This even works with the Gamo Swarm system @ the half-cocked position where the pellet probe is clear of the breech. Hope this saves everybody some headaches. Happy shooting!
I knew this trick from pulling wires through frames and handlebars when wiring Harleys!
Another good video but just a tip when sorting a pellet place the tins on either side and with 3 tins place one in front of you so in case of an accidental slip you won't compromise what you already sorted by crossing over one open tin to reach another.
Patience...like that is rare bud. You are the man. Sorting pellets for what they cost and the prestige that brand carries in the air gun world, and seeing the difference in weight and size feels to me like they should all be the same in weight and size but I guess they aren’t. I never weighed or measured them myself. Thank you I was completely unaware of this.
Great video info to know and learn by seeing the way to clean I learned alot from this video thanks-Tim in Michigan
I call the line method a kite tail .. Also you can use a vacum cleaner to get the line through.. Great as always.. Best tip is to turn the rifle upside down..
Thank you for your Awesome videos you have saved me a fortune . I can enjoy my air guns and afford to shoot more .
Great video! When I ran out of Ballistol I use CRC 656 that is my second choice and it works just like the Ballistol.
Great Tutorial, happy I stumbled on your channel. Thanks for the informative lesson.
Reminds me of roping trees in my younger days 😂 thx for the idea bud
Excellent common sense video with tips we won't naturally think of. Tip of the hat to you sir!
I actually have a digital scale I don't use much, but I'm about to wear that sucker out!
hi to find out if from same factory look at the Batch Numbers, if the same number its gonna be from same factory, to sort pellet further, get a small piece of glass, put two pellets on the table under each corner nearest to yourself and place a pellet on its side at the top of slope let it go, if it rolls perfectly its a good skirt and balabce well, if its noiser than the others the skirts damaged or its unbalanced, easy to do simple to sort out, suggest failed pellets be used in kids or other not high end guns, as noisy or jumpy pellet rolls if it will roll, shows skirt damage or unbalanced this will create a flight wobble and instability that will destroy your groups, washing and drying them helps remove any manufacturing debris from them a little dish soap(washing up liquid in U.K.) helps remove oils etc and hair dyer or heat gun to dry, some people place on oven trays and place in hot low heat setting oven to dry out, power pellet lube is also a help or WD 40, whatever you prefer, this improves the pellets ability to group better, and if you have problems you can check out the shooters technique and gun set ups, hope this may help some one cheers good vide .
Excellent! Really thorough and well thought out!
Thank you!
I don't sort on weights of pellets. Just head size with my custom head sizer and I use 3 different bandwidths.
4.499mm and smaller to practice with
4.50mm - 4.51mm shooting WRABF
4.511mm - 4.53mm shooting WRABF
JSB pellets are all from the same factory. At the back of the tin is the batch number.
Head/skirt variations effect accuracy more than weight variations in my experience.
Hey thanks for that. Yes, I learned that recently with my Nova liberty.
I just run mine through a pellet resizer.
Great tips. I'm a cheap mofo and got some weed wacker line and old t-shirts so this is perfect for me 😂
Great video. Well executed. Thanks for sharing your experience and keeping it legit. Keep up the good work.
You do not want to work the bore from the muzzle end, the clean cut crown is critical for accuracy, at least in high power rifles. If the crown is irregular a burst of gas hits the tail of the pellet or bullet as it exits and could cause wobble. So pull through from the breech.
Thanks for the tip
@@AirVelocitySport There is a whole thing about "re-crowning firearms" to restore accuracy. Lots of videos and even tools. Not sure if it helps pellet rifles, in fact I have never seen what peak pressures are generated when the spring/piston is released.
That's why you buy 10-20 tins at once from one supplier with the same batch number
Can not afford £150+ for bulk buying, can just about afford 2 tins
Very good learning something new very clear,many thanks.
I saw a man on one Channel use a Shop-Vac on the muzzle end of the air rifles to suck his string through from the breach. You'll have to remove the baffles before attempting this because the string will hang up.
The only thing missing from this video is quality. Other than that, great video, I very much appreciate all the effort put into making it. Now I feel like an expert cleaning my guns barrels. I will also start sorting pellets whenever I can. Thank you so much!
Ballistol is good stuff. Great idea to make your own "bore snake".
Good Information. I tried weighing my Crosman 7.9 Match Grade Wadcutters. I got two piles; 7.8 and 8.0. There were a few 7.7 and 8.1 Not sure how accurate my scale is. I kept hitting TARE to ensure the scale wasn't drifting. I'm sure that eventually i will find a pellet way out of tolerance.
One thing you failed to mention with the weighing and head measurements, is to also check for pellet damage. Occasionally I find a pellet with an indentation on the side or skirt, and I believe these little imperfections can cause you to get the occasional fliers.
For now I will must weigh my pellets to see how much difference there is. Apparently there are gauges that are sold that you can drop your pellets through to get accurate diameters. Problem is these gauges cost quite a bit.
Simply wonderful explanation. Thank you !
Wow .0015” I wouldn’t have expected an entire thousandth and a half of difference between the diameters but now that you mention it I do occasionally have to really force a pellet to seat in my break barrel so...makes sense. Should have finished watching before commenting, but your smallest was .38mm and largest was .50 so we are talking about a .005” difference in inches, for reference a sheet of paper is around .0025” or half of that difference so yeah, I can definitely see how that would affect accuracy and probably also muzzle speed.
nice video with good cleaning tips.
Billy Joel knows his shit.
Can use a Q-tip to shoot and clean too.
Thanks for the tip on the weed wacker line 👍
AVS: First, I am a dedicated supporter and watcher. But, I spend a few minutes (hrs) watching. Umust spend hrs. making these vids. But, anyway keep em comming
TOTALLY SHOCKED NOBODY SIZES THEIR PELLETS. Reloaders do it. The Brits do it and I had to order sizers from UK. All my groups were smaller when sized. Hey now That's right.
Very good cleaning advice, I use monofilament 30lb test... all good...
I'd like to see how you do an underlever springer bore...
Great info as always, I have the same scales here in the uk 🇬🇧 bought from amazon cheers Shane uk 🇬🇧
Have you ever used a trigger stop . On you costum hp it would really help . Just a 11/32 screw in the trigger guard .it stops the trigger travel as soon as it fires helps with stop movement 👍
The ballistol oil, contains silicone....
The best product for cleaning and maintenance for air rifles is silicone oil.... Thank you.. The video.....
A gun Smith told me that every time you shoot a pellet through the barrel it actually cleans it but leaves a bit of dirt behind and cycle begins after the next pellet and so on
Good video!! I learned a lot!
take a aluminum ,copper wire 1 to 4 inches long,hammer about an inch section till it gets wider and a lil flatter drill a small hole for string to pass thru tie as you want ,now you got a weighted piece to push thru chamber and let fall out of muzzle then pull your awesome set up thru !
you could flatten .85 or.90 weed eater string and drill for string or pads too ,you flatten this by heating and pliers squeezed or hammer !
Do you clean the pellets first before weighing them?
Great video ! Thanks ! Frank
Great Video explaining the proper way to clean the barrel!! I bought a nylon air rifle cleaning kit on Amazon for like 15 bucks.I wish I would have seen your video first.The Homemade Weed whacker bore snake was Genius & Cheap.
I think I’m going to return my kit and use the Weed Whacker Line.Thank You for the Great detailed Demonstration!!! And TY for saving me some money 👍🏻 👍🏻 👍🏻 .
If you put the cover down over the pellet when weighting it will give a much more accurate reading. Sensitive scales like these need to be will very the weight read out from just the air moving around the room.
Also do not move the scale after you calibrate it you'll change how it reads if you're picky.
Do you wash your pellets and lube them ,,,,I found that me doing this helps my accuracy big time
Great tips .
Do I have to do this tho?
I'm getting pellets and a co2 tonight and I'm shooting it tonight should I clean it? Btw it sat for years waiting for me
Can show how to make the loop? Couldnt see that well. Why aren't useing mops and nylon brushes.
Professor of Airguns, Well done!
Good advice. I guess if you are doing precision shooting, you may want to get it down to the same grains in your sorting. Found that 5gr can make a difference, especially with wind, humidity and distance. For the everyday shooter it doesn’t really make a difference. For precision shooting competitions it will make a difference. Also crimping the head size makes a difference. Same head diameter. Not precision shooting, don’t bother, just have fun.
You can not reliably measure pellet head sizes with vernier calipers. Been there done that. Use a Pelletgage. Otherwise good information.
I used to work as a tool maker we used to call verniers very nears, micrometers much better idea lol.
Out of a tin of JSB pellets I bought only 40 out of 500 were the actual weight stated.
I would think that weight is more important than head size.
Within a narrow range, of course.
There Galation looks really good. I would imagine it's a good hunter in .25.
Great advice
the question for me is what is more of importance in accuracy for our rifles head size or weight cause that is a whole lot of work geez!
Say what you will about break-barrels, they sure are easy to clean!
Great video. I have had a bore string made for my.22 break barrel and I use ballistol on a piece of cloth or a Napier VP90 field patch is also handy way of doing it. Didn’t realise how much variance there is in a tin of pellets and I shall be getting some scales to weight them. I have verniers calliper Was you measured the widest part of the head or behind nearer the skirt?
30:01 He shot the tv.... Good presentation without annoying background music.
Thank You for video. Maybe You know how is possible clean a barrel of Benjamin Armada? I saw it's very easy take off O-ring from Hatsan rifle. But Armada - I don't understand how take off O-ring
To be clear. Jsb company has only one factory .All machines are hand made by factory engineers and upgrated by the time and there is no option to have other place then Czech republic to manufacture them...
The pellet tin should have a lot # on it,that will keep them closer.
How does head diameter tend to affect the accuracy?
Luckily I have a digital scale to weigh my gold and coins. Will try weighing the pellets.
Great video brother
Have you ever used a pellet sizer ?
Is this procedure applicable in 4.5 mm barrel???
Yes, Just use a smaller pieces of cotton.
When are we going to eliminate pellets and just go with slugs? That way the prices would go down and they can make pellet base slugs for shorter range pest control. Companies can just make slug barrels from now on as i find they are less finicky once tuned compared to pellets. I don't shoot pellets. When I need to shoot birds off trees I use a pellet base slug as they cause more drag to lessen the chance of your slug visiting the next zipcode over from you. lol.
So the Balistol will not ruin O-Rings ?
Is it synthetic
@@ralphfox5354 it says it is a white mineral oil
Rudy is the next roger stone
why not push your orange chord through and pull your multi system through
If my gun is set at 25 yards and I have a target 300 should I aim 2 to 3 above it? I have an asshole from hell that cost Me $5000 3 years ago so I want to make him buy a new roof from 300 out. Cheap as possible.
Machine oil like 3 into 1 is good for guns
I enjoyed the CNBC competing for my attention.
use vacuum to get string to start going through
WD40 traps dust can gunks up or at least it does bike chains
Good video, except turn the TV off
Good info but I think you are making it way too hard! How many times do you ram a pellet and the probe through the o'ring ? I do not think a patch is going to do that much harm. Time is money and taking all that extra time to save a 10 cent o'ring does not make any sense to me at all. Different strokes for different folks I guess..
Kral barrels are very dirty new and needs a good cleaning and break in to be accurate
Ballistol is the WD40 for airguns :D
Since your idea of cleaning an air rifle bore involves; scope removal, barrel removal, etc., you forgot to mention to remove trigger guard, PCP air tube, etc., etc., etc.,... > HUMOR ;o)
Uh WD-40 rots orings because it's petroleum based...
Yeah, WD-40 is actual a solvent. It will actually remove lubricants. It was formulated as a water displacement fluid; which it is great at.
Great info save us some money on cleaning rods !
Golden rule for me is to never clean my barrel
wd:40 has kerosene in it and kerosene will destroy o-rings
I never clean my airguns.There is no dirt or "gook" in there. There is graphite off the pellets. It returns immediately. I fire a felt through before and after every range session or anytime there might be dirt in the muzzle.
I don't weigh pellets. i do size them. I seldom buy tins of pellets, I buy cardboard boxes of 1,000 or something. The CPs are fine out of the PCP and springer for playing field target. My chrony reveals all sorts of consistency. I do not use chinease anything. No harbor fright calipers or $18 junk electronic scales. I reload for powder burners. Lee mechanical powder scale, Unholy accurate and not fussy if slow to use. Mitutoyo calipers. No chinease airguns. Swedish and German. More accurate than I can shoot. What more could I ask for?
Wow!
Lotta fussin' around and meticulous minutia for something that for me, is just intended to be fun, not a means of competitive pursuit, financial, economic, or other life support. I buy a tin of pellets, sight them in and shoot 'em up. No McGyver-like DYI wizardry required to operate or maintain. Got a $10 Umarex air gun cleaning kit and a can of Ballistol...I'm good. When I want to get serious about my hunting and shooting, it usually involves one of the many rifles, handguns, or shotguns in a collection I have amassed over the last fifty years.
Guns N Basses Forever! 🔫🎸
Measuring with calipers you mine as well use a yardstick use micrometers or use nothing at all for what you’re doing
use a gauge/pellet sizer or nothing at all.
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Good job except for the tv noise