Should you clean your Anschutz .22 rimfire? 

How many rounds does it take to qualify as "dirty"?

It depends on the firearm, I have a 1960 Anshutz single shot, I clean it maybe every 6 months to a year. When I shot large bore competition with a HK .308 with a polygon barrel I needed 40-50 rounds before it shot tight groups. I quit cleaning it weeks before a competition and I always scored good. Clean it and it would look like a shotgun for a while.

I reckon I depends on the barrel and ammunition. No two chambers are the same. If your chamber is such thats it's throat matches your cartridge when it's clean, a clean barrel may shoot best. If your chamber throat is a little long by way of tolerance variation, a "fouled" barrel my shoot better. But sooner or later all barrels will need cleaning for function and accuracy

Clean it every time, I use two felt discs, one oiled, second one dry every time I use it. Barrel is 1974, four years ago it shot a British record that still stands to the best of my knowledge. Never use bronze on it. They used to say it doesn’t matter whether you clean it or not, just do the same thing EVERY time you shoot. Works for me.

If you use dirty ammo, clean your barrel after each outing. Period. I find 22LR by Remington, Sellier & Bellot, RWS, and SK are dirty, especially Remington. Federal and CCI rimfire tend to be much cleaner.

I keep my rifle barrels clean but i never use a bore snake

Thank you for sharing and I like your style. Do what you want based on what you have personally observed. You are making a data driven decision.

That was awesome. We have competitors at our club with 60 years experience. Most of them go out of their mind if they have to clean their gun and believe it takes many, many rounds to re-season it. Myself, I have always been a clean it every time guy. I think my method works for me. I probably should gather the data.

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Wow. Just when I thought I knew it all. What a great video. I have always wanted a better way to compare groups. Clear plastic sheets. Thank you for that and confirming what I always thought. Great information done in a professional way. Still not sure I would clean the groove but a dry bore snake all day. Maybe compare that and save me some money on ammo. 😆

No, and never with a bore snake.

Of course not just let carbon and fouling build up to the point of failure lol.

We're anal about cleaning...it is both accuracy and reliability, every little bit helps...

I have to ask the question.As the .22lr is so quiet in an outside range situation, why are you bothering with suppressors?

yes clean. but dont use a rod

I am an avid cleaner so clean every time out .… I really enjoy cleaning guns though to be honest . Sorry but that’s me 😂

Great Video, good to know!

I have a 1710…I’ll start cleaning after squirrel season or each benchrest sporter match.

Nice try

May not matter to you, but you are shooting at or above sound barrier, all Eley are just under. Just saying. Kentucky

What is a ML? Do you mean MM? miliradian?

Sorry , meant to say great vid by the way

Interesting video. Thanks

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No way I would use a bore snake on any rifle, much less an Anschutz.

So all you did for "cleaning" is pull a bore snake through a couple times for cleaning?

Hey, Stop cleaning your rifle all the time, only clean once or twice a year and if it starts shooting way off. And start weighting your ammo, never shoot it straight out of the box. cheers mate

All depends unfortunately on barrel - ammo - temperate - skill

As an m14 service rifle competitor it was standard practice with all service teams to maintain zero on a clean barrel...between 300 yard and final 600 yard stages we would dry brush the bore with a couple strokes....after the match we would clean the barrel with hoppes and leave a very thin film of red transmition fluid in the bore prior to removal on the day of the next firing..zeros at 200 30 and 600 yards were confirmed with 2 sighting shots or depending on the match no sighting shots in which case zeros were slightly adjusted for weather conditions that day..