10-03-2011, 01:22 PM
I agree that shooting (especially a semi-auto) like a black powder is no fun. (for those of you that don't shoot BP, you have to clean pretty much every round or the accuracy degrades fast...)
However, when I do mine, I shoot 1 round, run a wet patch with Sweets 7.62 cleaner (ammonia based) and then a brass brush, and dry patch/mop through it. Takes only a min or so to do. I do that for the first 10 rounds, and that will allow your barrel to cool, as well as clean it. Then I fire 3 rounds and do that same thing, another 3 and clean, and another 3 and clean. After that, I call it good. I have never had any troubles with that way... But to everyone their own.
However, when I do mine, I shoot 1 round, run a wet patch with Sweets 7.62 cleaner (ammonia based) and then a brass brush, and dry patch/mop through it. Takes only a min or so to do. I do that for the first 10 rounds, and that will allow your barrel to cool, as well as clean it. Then I fire 3 rounds and do that same thing, another 3 and clean, and another 3 and clean. After that, I call it good. I have never had any troubles with that way... But to everyone their own.