Barrel Prep Before Firing First Shot With New Air Rifle?

[mournegold 0]

Hi all,

 

I have just bought my first air-rifle after shooting targets for a few years. I have bought a Weihrauch HW97 Blackline in .22 and am just waiting for my updated FAC to come back so I can go pick it up... tick, tock, tick, tock......

 

My question is this though, what preperations do you make to a new rifle before you actually start using it?

 

I currently use Eezox on my target rifle and am very happy with its performance. I was thinking about giving the rifle barrel a coating inside and out before i start running it in. What do you guys think?

 

I know that it will likely be a few hundred shots before the accuracy stabilises with a new rifle, but will cleaning the barrel lengthen/ shorten this running in period?

 

Thanks in advance

[robwelsh 354]

I would always recommend cleaning a new barrel with a pull through as they coat inside to stop rusting while sat around. Say about 50-100 shots depends on type of pellet, soft or hard...springers take a while to bed in.

[mournegold 0]

Forgive my ignorance, but will this prevent the dieseling that I have read about in relation to a new air rifle being fired?

[andyfr1968 772]

Not really. Dieseling in a new springer is just the residual lubrication in the cylinder being burned off. Some do this, some don't. You'll just have to find this out for yourself and as Rob's already said, it'll take a good couple of hundred shots at least before the thing starts to bed in a bit and settle down.

 

What's Eezox? I've never heard of that but I've always just shot a gun straight out of the box knowing that it'll take time before getting properly accurate results anyway.

[mournegold 0]

Thanks for the replies.

Eezox is a solvent and lubricant in one product. I was spending a lot of time researching what to buy for another rifle and came across it. There are some Youtube videos about the effects it has preventing rust that impressed me enough to try it. I have only been using it for around 18 months but haven't had any problems. From what I could make out it seems to fill the microscopic pores in the metal but i'm trying to remember details I haven't looked at in a while. I think there is only one distributor selling it in the UK but I found them very helpful.

[robwelsh 354]

I don't know what it was but my huntsman had it, an the new ultra I picked up, the crud that came out, gunky stuff like lol groups improved no end. My Diana didn settle down untill about 3-4 tins I think...absolutely lovely to shoot then

[mournegold 0]

Got my rifle yesterday and gave the barrel a clean this morning. Loads of black/ brown gunk came out of it. I put a couple of hundred pellets through it tonight and its starting to group nicely.

With the first fifty or sixty rounds there was a slight chemical burning smell. Is this a sign of dieseling?

[andyfr1968 772]

Got my rifle yesterday and gave the barrel a clean this morning. Loads of black/ brown gunk came out of it. I put a couple of hundred pellets through it tonight and its starting to group nicely.

With the first fifty or sixty rounds there was a slight chemical burning smell. Is this a sign of dieseling?

 

Most probably but if it's gone away and the rifle's settling down then it's nothing to worry about.

[robwelsh 354]

Every barrel has crap in it mate...just let it settle now