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Offline bluebayou

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does copper fouling really matter?
« on: March 22, 2006, 08:01:41 PM »
That's pretty much my question.  I read all of this stuff about copper fouling but I have honestly never used a copper remover.  Does it make a difference?  I can't help but think that whatever burr caused the copper to be scraped off is just going to scrape more copper off with the next shot.  I KNOW that the .44 barrel shoots better and with a drastic change in POI once it is powder fouled.  Whether this is due to the powder fouling filling space in my .432 bore, I don't know.  I do know that it shoots differently when dirty versus say, the first 5-6 shots.  Does copper do something like that?

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does copper fouling really matter?
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2006, 08:12:35 PM »
Yup..it can effect how a rifle shoots...sometimes they like a little fouling in them..other times they go crazy...I have found with mine..it will take a couple shots to settle things down after a complete cleaning..and then I'm good for quite a few..but my bores are all Flitzed well too..so they are pretty smooth to begin with..when I shot them before flitzing..they would foul quickly and accuracy would drop off after about 20 rounds without cleaning..

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does copper fouling really matter?
« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2006, 08:18:11 PM »
My 7-08 has dropped off a bit.  The first loads were super tight at .75 MOA and have gone to 1.25 or so.  Nothing to sneeze at either way, but nothing changed on the rifle either.  Thanks for the quick reply.