gamestalker
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Last weekend I chatted with this young fellow who was shooting a 700 chambered in .243 win.. I looked over at him a couple of times and saw him putting something down the barrel. Currosity got the best of me, so naturally I asked what he was doing. He says, oh I'm doing that graphite thing bench rest shooters do. I asked him exactly what thing it is that BR shooters do with graphite? His repsonse was, I'm powdering the barrel with graphite to reduce cooper fouling, and reduce harmonic distortion created by friction. I asked him what he was doing anythng to prevent it from getting in the chamber. He said, just the loaded round in the chamber, that's all. He was doing this after every round fired, and he wasn't even tapping the excess out before firing each round.
Am I missing something here? Or is this a common or secret practice among BR shooters? What the heck, this contradicts everything I've ever read or learned in the 30+ years of reloading, and I was also mentored by an accomplished BR shooter. I have never heard of anything remotely simular to this BR thing, as he so eloquently described it. Personally, I can't imagine ever putting anything in the barrel / chamber, or on the ammunition. I deffinitely didn't want to make a fool of myself thinking maybe this is something new or secretive in the BR world, so I just said oh ya, I think I've heard something about that, NOT!
GS
Am I missing something here? Or is this a common or secret practice among BR shooters? What the heck, this contradicts everything I've ever read or learned in the 30+ years of reloading, and I was also mentored by an accomplished BR shooter. I have never heard of anything remotely simular to this BR thing, as he so eloquently described it. Personally, I can't imagine ever putting anything in the barrel / chamber, or on the ammunition. I deffinitely didn't want to make a fool of myself thinking maybe this is something new or secretive in the BR world, so I just said oh ya, I think I've heard something about that, NOT!
GS