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Some people like to clean after 250 or so pellets and some will even do so every time they shoot their rifle.

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But there are times you should, and if you don’t do it right you could miss that crucial shot you’ve taken the time to prepare. Wrap a paper towel or microfibre cloth around the muzzle to stop these chemicals from getting into your lungs or over your worktop. In closing, these are a number of tasks you can perform to ensure your air rifle is maintained to a good standard. A lot of those within the airgun industry do not understand the importance of properly maintaining the action.Trying to feed the pull-through down the shroud and in through the muzzle will usually result in the loop that holds the cleaning patches just folding up on itself.

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The reason you want to think about it is that harder pellets fired at speeds above 900 FPS might leave some lead behind. If you have shooting accessories including ammo or archery products you do not need to supply an ID.If you’re going to put the gun in storage for a while – maybe you put your gun away over the winter – make sure there’s a light film of oil in the bore, which will help protect the metal from any moisture that’s trapped in your gun cabinet or bag.

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Just make sure the straw is long enough so it doesn’t slide inside the shroud, never to be heard of again. Accuracy may be woeful at this stage, but as the barrel starts to regain its optimal level of leading – and this can take anywhere from 10 to 50 shots – your rifle will start shooting far straighter than it did before! How much you use your air rifle will determine how often you get it serviced – so if you’re someone who shoots once a week, a service every two years should suffice. Afterwards, use cleaning pellets or patches soaked in cleaning solvent to remove any residue from the inside of the barrel.With this in mind, some guns may be painted differently and have a slight colour variation from the image shown. A well-made air rifle won’t need to be cleaned each time it’s used, and if anything, cleaning too often can actually risk damaging the barrel. When you shoot a pellet, a small amount of lead gets deposited in the lands and grooves of the rifling in your barrel – and that’s a good thing.

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A common mistake is people focus on what the end of the rod is doing and let the near side scrape on the side of the barrel. The process for cleaning springers and gas-rams is fairly straightforward, so here we’ll concentrate on PCPs. On rare occasions these dates can be changed by the manufacturers, so we recommend staying in contact with our Exeter branch once a month depending on the product lead time. When you fire your gun and it builds up the Lead we talked about earlier there is an equilibrium that is reached where you hit an optimum level of accuracy. With that said though, our final piece of advice would be to get your air rifle serviced by a professional on a regular basis.

There are test results that say it’s not as serious an issue as some people will tell you, but when it is a problem it’s an expensive one to fix. You’ve now carried out a deep clean of your bore without using any nasty jags or brushes that could cause damage. While Airguns looks fairly simple on the outside, there are a number of parts which make them up, all of which require some form of cleaning and maintenance.