Barrel fouling versus pitting

[J.B. Books]

Originally Posted by Dave Miles

Not trying to be a wise guy, but how can you hone the bores and clean up the pitting, without removing metal? Thus increasing bore dimension.

The only thing I can tell you Dave is the bores look noticeably better and if any metal was removed it is in the order of .0005 or less and the performance of the gun was not adversely affected. I also shot a 1 3/8 of chilled lead 2's from each barrel at a 30 inch steel plate at 40 yards. I achieved a 77 and 76% pattern.

[Labowner]

I don't believe that style of hone will remove any detectable amount of metal, I think it is just cleaning the barrels and the bottom of the pits so they are harder to see, I love mine once every so often I use it after I clean the gun and it really cleans the bores and they clean up allot easier for some time after wards.