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Polishing Barrell

Started by Mimosa Gobbler, March 24, 2012, 10:44:53 AM

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Mimosa Gobbler

I polished the barrell on my Mossy 500 and lead numbers increased greatly but my heavyweight numbers fell off by 50-60 pellet count! Has anyone else had this occur?

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st8tman

Maybe Clark will chime in on this, as he is oneof the most knowledgable on this topic.

mightyjoeyoung

Did you also pollish the turkey choke or did you replace it with a IC or MOD before you did it?  Never had a case where a barrel I pollished gave better number with one type of shot over another.  Usually they BOTH improve by at least 10% core density and quite a bit in pattern eveness. 
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Mimosa Gobbler

Replaced it with a modified choke!

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Mimosa Gobbler

I followed the instructions at the top of this forum!

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jasperjet

did you shoot two or three rounds to get an average? Ive never seen this either

allaboutshooting

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Quote from: Mimosa Gobbler on March 24, 2012, 10:44:53 AM
I polished the barrell on my Mossy 500 and lead numbers increased greatly but my heavyweight numbers fell off by 50-60 pellet count! Has anyone else had this occur?

I normally "deep clean" my barrels with Hoppe's #9 per the guidelines in the article "Cleaning a Shotgun Barrel" that you can find by clicking on my banner below.

That always improves my patterns and from all the reports I've had from readers, has improved their as well.

It sounds like the change could be as a result the effect on the Flitecontrol Wad of your polished barrel, if I read correctly that you're shooting Heavyweight shot.

I have noted that some barrels shoot that wad (and others) better when slightly fouled.

Here's what I'd recommend. Start by "deep cleaning" your barrel and then shoot a few rounds without cleaning between each shot. You may begin to notice that your patterns improve (regardless of shotshell) before they begin to degrade.

In any case, I'd suspect that shooting a few rounds through it without cleaning may get you back where you were prior to the procedure and hopefully even better.

Thanks,
Clark
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nyhunter

Was the H-13 from this year "bought this year"? If so that could be the problem, allot of people are seeing there numbers drop off with this years 3.5" #6's. "me included". It seems that their changing things AGAIN!!!!.

Mimosa Gobbler

Clark, Thanks I will give that a try!

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Mimosa Gobbler

Nyhunter, the shells are the Federal Heavyweights w/FCW!

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Philippe

Check out Clarks site and read up on it carefully. His deep cleaning process works great as does the polishing method mentioned at the top of the forum.