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Well, looking at the walls in the house got to me today so thought I would get a bit of afternoon shooting in. Took the Disc Ext MHC and headed to the farm.
The object of the shoot was to really to do some additonal testing with the Montana Xtreme Bore Conditioner that I have been using in the gun for the last couple of months. The gun has been shot and cleaned 3 different times with the conditioner added in the barrel - today was the fourth trip.
The 'test' was to shoot the last eight .458/300 grain Hornady bullets that I had, but more importantly was to guage the amout of fouling that I might be getting or hopefully not getting... I cleaned the gun at the end of elk season this year and as the final step added the Montana Xtreme into the barrel as the last step of that cleaning. Today while in the house I ran a dry patch to bring out as much Xtreme as it would. I ran the patch both sides - essentially I do not think it picked up anything. I did not run an alcohol patch to strip the bore. I really wanted to see what the first shot on a 'squeaky clean' but conditioned barrel might do.
If you look at the target you can see where #1 went. I then ran a moistened windex patch patch down the barrel. It went down very smooth and went right to the BP plug without feeling anything. There is no doubt in my mind I could have reloaded and shot again without the patch. I shot 2 more 100 grain loads with out patching. I then decided to shoot my hunting load 120 grain of T7-2f. I did run the original windex patch before 120 grain load. Again the patch went to the bottom very smoothly and very easily. I did feel a bit of ruffness just before it dropped on the breech plug, although nothing was felt at the normal 'crud ring' spot. Again it would not have interfrred with any reloading effort.
Loaded the first 120 grain load - shot and patched again with the original windex patch. Patch went to the bottom very smoothly and I can not say I felt much of anything. Loaded and shot 2 more 120 grain loads - no patching. Then with the last two .458 bullets that I had I tried to estimate the wind and use the ballistic recticule to compenstate... so shots 7 & 8 are with compensation.
At the end of this session I ran two windex patches both sides - the second patch came out very close to clean. It is my belief that there has been a reduction in fouling in the barrel.
This is the product...
http://www.montanaxtreme.com/products/b ... tioner.php
The object of the shoot was to really to do some additonal testing with the Montana Xtreme Bore Conditioner that I have been using in the gun for the last couple of months. The gun has been shot and cleaned 3 different times with the conditioner added in the barrel - today was the fourth trip.
The 'test' was to shoot the last eight .458/300 grain Hornady bullets that I had, but more importantly was to guage the amout of fouling that I might be getting or hopefully not getting... I cleaned the gun at the end of elk season this year and as the final step added the Montana Xtreme into the barrel as the last step of that cleaning. Today while in the house I ran a dry patch to bring out as much Xtreme as it would. I ran the patch both sides - essentially I do not think it picked up anything. I did not run an alcohol patch to strip the bore. I really wanted to see what the first shot on a 'squeaky clean' but conditioned barrel might do.
If you look at the target you can see where #1 went. I then ran a moistened windex patch patch down the barrel. It went down very smooth and went right to the BP plug without feeling anything. There is no doubt in my mind I could have reloaded and shot again without the patch. I shot 2 more 100 grain loads with out patching. I then decided to shoot my hunting load 120 grain of T7-2f. I did run the original windex patch before 120 grain load. Again the patch went to the bottom very smoothly and very easily. I did feel a bit of ruffness just before it dropped on the breech plug, although nothing was felt at the normal 'crud ring' spot. Again it would not have interfrred with any reloading effort.
Loaded the first 120 grain load - shot and patched again with the original windex patch. Patch went to the bottom very smoothly and I can not say I felt much of anything. Loaded and shot 2 more 120 grain loads - no patching. Then with the last two .458 bullets that I had I tried to estimate the wind and use the ballistic recticule to compenstate... so shots 7 & 8 are with compensation.
At the end of this session I ran two windex patches both sides - the second patch came out very close to clean. It is my belief that there has been a reduction in fouling in the barrel.
This is the product...
http://www.montanaxtreme.com/products/b ... tioner.php
