your turkey gun barrel. For best results of patterning/performence just woundering who here does what and how often?


Earl

I have done it to all my shotguns. I have only done it once to each gun since they do not get shot a whole lot. If you have one general purpose gun that you waterfowl/upland bird/turkey hunt with then I would do it each season.

GN put his process on here a few years back. If you search you will find a long thread on it.

Vic

I think I posted this up here ten yearts ago....might ned updateing fro new products that I do not knoww about. I still do this each year using this method (on all guns I shoot while hunting):

Here is a step by step on how to make your gun shoot better, not matter what tube or shells you use... this has been posted before...something to do now before the season.here is some information from a fellow named John
>Coit, from South Carolina I believe, that everyone might wish to consider
>for their turkey gun: ""I think you can pull somemore serious potential out
>of your gun with a little bore polishing.
>
>Polishing the bore:
>
>cleaning rod
>bore brush
>scotchbrite pad
>wd40
>gun cleaning solvent
>patches
>3/8 drill
>
>Thoroughly clean the barrel removing all fouling wipe dry with dry patches
>
>cut your scotch brite pad so it will encompass the bore brush and cover the
>bristles entirely.
>
>lube the barrel and scotch brite pad with liberal amounts of wd 40
>
>with cleaning rod attached to your drill work the scotch brite covered bore
>brush into the back of the barrel slow turning of the drill greatly eases
>this.
>
>On high speed run the drill and bore brush up and down the barrel stopping
>at the joint where the choke meets the barrel ( measure it first and mark
>the rod with some tape so you know where to stop. You want to polish the
>joint but not run the pad out of the end of the choke. Make sure you keep
>that brush moving up and down the barrel and do not overlook polishing the
>back of the bore as well. In between scotch brite pad changes swab with a
>clean patch and check progress what your looking for is an absolutely smooth
>glass finish with no ridges pits or scoring marks. In most cases twenty
>minutes and one pad change in between will leave you with a substantially
>smoother and better shooting shot gun.
>
>I have yet to do a factory barrel that didnt improve patterns by at least
>25%
>
>Before you shoot the gun make sure you swab out the barrel and put a light
>coat of oil in the barrel. Shoot the gun re oil and then you can go back to
>your normal maintainence routine.
>
>Why does it work? well heres the theroy as it was told to me . As the shot
>wad travels down the barrel it encounters friction with the barrel. Any
>imperfection in the barrel acts as a drag on the wad slowing it down. As
>this happens your shot charge does not slow down and the shot string length
>gets longer. When the shot encounters the choke you are actually choking
>less shot than the choke is designed to handle and choking it in varied
>densities causing fliers and holes in the pattern. What you want is the shot
>string to be as short as possible when it encounters the choke. Smoothing
>the barrel helps to accomplish this.Ideally you would want your shot to all
>be in the wad until it encounters the wad stripper in the choke. One thing
>Ive noticed is after polishing the average gun handles the hevier shot
>charges better than before. thus giving you more pellets out there and even
>higher hit counts.
>
>I can tell you this much polishing the bores of these shotguns around here
>had a more dramatic affect in desinty and hit improvement than any of the
>aftermarket chokes or shells Ive tried. Combined with thes aftermarket
>products though the improvements are truely amazing.

GN is absolutely right. I have done all my turkey guns. Don not do this with your turkey choke in and do not do this over your threads. I have an old Undertaker choke i no longer use that i put in and do not mind it being messed up.

I have seen some people say to use Kroil or even J&B Bore Cleaner and Bore Bright.

I did this 1 time, a lot of hard and messy work for a few ex-shots (15-20 in a 10" ) that you dont need if you kill them @ 20-30 yds. this may work for them 50+ yds guns, then you will need all the ex-help you can get.

if you need the ex-shot past 40yds...... get to Polishing boys !!!

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brian

I agree... all my barrels look like a mirror inside anyhow... Look threw them into a light sand get blinded...