Shotguns and tight patterns

[ncboman]

There was a thread on the other site addressing polishing the barrel, etc, to get really tight groups, er, I mean patterns but I never gleaned the meat of the info for some reason.

Was wondering if it could be discussed here freely.

[hatracked]

Ill get it posted tomorrow for you , got to hit the rack at the moment turkey time.

[freedomrules3]

I'm also very interested in this polishing method i have heard about . post it up only a week before season starts here.
Rick

[hatracked]

""I think you can pull somemore serious potential out
>of your gun with a little bore polishing.
>
>Polishing the bore:
>
>cleaning rod
>bore brush
>scotchbrite pad
>wd40
>gun cleaning solvent
>patches
>3/8 drill
>
>Thoroughly clean the barrel removing all fouling wipe dry with dry patches
>
>cut your scotch brite pad so it will encompass the bore brush and cover the
>bristles entirely.
>
>lube the barrel and scotch brite pad with liberal amounts of wd 40
>
>with cleaning rod attached to your drill work the scotch brite covered bore
>brush into the back of the barrel slow turning of the drill greatly eases
>this.
>
>On high speed run the drill and bore brush up and down the barrel stopping
>at the joint where the choke meets the barrel ( measure it first and mark
>the rod with some tape so you know where to stop. You want to polish the
>joint but not run the pad out of the end of the choke. Make sure you keep
>that brush moving up and down the barrel and do not overlook polishing the
>back of the bore as well. In between scotch brite pad changes swab with a
>clean patch and check progress what your looking for is an absolutely smooth
>glass finish with no ridges pits or scoring marks. In most cases twenty
>minutes and one pad change in between will leave you with a substantially
>smoother and better shooting shot gun.
>
>I have yet to do a factory barrel that didnt improve patterns by at least
>25%
>
>Before you shoot the gun make sure you swab out the barrel and put a light
>coat of oil in the barrel. Shoot the gun re oil and then you can go back to
>your normal maintainence routine.
>
>Why does it work? well heres the theroy as it was told to me . As the shot
>wad travels down the barrel it encounters friction with the barrel. Any
>imperfection in the barrel acts as a drag on the wad slowing it down. As
>this happens your shot charge does not slow down and the shot string length
>gets longer. When the shot encounters the choke you are actually choking
>less shot than the choke is designed to handle and choking it in varied
>densities causing fliers and holes in the pattern. What you want is the shot
>string to be as short as possible when it encounters the choke. Smoothing
>the barrel helps to accomplish this.Ideally you would want your shot to all
>be in the wad until it encounters the wad stripper in the choke. One thing
>Ive noticed is after polishing the average gun handles the hevier shot
>charges better than before. thus giving you more pellets out there and even
>higher hit counts.
>
>I can tell you this much polishing the bores of these shotguns around here
>had a more dramatic affect in desinty and hit improvement than any of the
>aftermarket chokes or shells Ive tried. Combined with thes aftermarket
>products though the improvements are truely amazing. When you can put an
>entire pattern of 5's into a 10 inch circle at 30 yards youve got an
>absolutely deadly turkey gun all the way out to 40 without a doubt.
>

[hatracked]

Back down at the lodge now. I spnt my first hour here applying these techniques to my bosses Remingtom 870 super mag. Its fitted with a 665 comp-n-choke and Im predicting grand results. The improvement in the polishing from factory to its current shape was quite substantial. That shot wad and shot colum should have a super glide down the barrel. It cant help but shoot better Im betting 35% or more better.. This gun NEEDED help. Ill see if I can get some pattern results and pattern pics tomorrow.