Manually cooling a barrel?

[Pydpiper]

Sighting in my gun today and got wondering if there was any way to cool it faster than to simply refrain from shooting. I had to take a 1/2 hour break when I really didn't have time for one.

[jo191145]

Stand it up straight with the bolt open in the shade is the easiest way.
The chimney effect seems to work much better than simply leaving it horizontal on the bags.

If theres no shade where you shoot you simply need more guns

[Pydpiper]

Thanks, I will try that. I recall a friend spraying some kind of fluid down the barrel of his Sako, I think it was carburetor cleaner?
I wasn't going to try it, it just made me think there may be a better way.
I like the more guns idea, I just needed to get this one shooting straight.

[Rick in Oregon]

piper: acloco's method is the easiest and quite effective. Shade is the operative word. Another way is to lay a white wet towel over the barrel to wick away the heat.

In a hot PD or squirrel patch, we've also used gallon jugs of cold water hooked up with 1/4" aquarium plastic tubing to pour water from the chamber end down the barrel to cool it. Dry with patches after cleaning, and she's cool in no time.

[rayfromtx]

Use your ice cold cooler water on a white terry cloth towel. Shift the towel as it dries on the barrel and re-wet it as needed in the cooler. I still cook my barrels though. I can't stop shooting.

[Fat NDN]

I bought a minow bucket arerator and took the little ball off and I insert the tube in the chamber.
It sends cool air down the barrel without leaving moister. WalMart - $7.00
Works great, runs on 2 AA batteries.

[glenn asher]

Use your ice cold cooler water on a white terry cloth towel. Shift the towel as it dries on the barrel and re-wet it as needed in the cooler. I still cook my barrels though. I can't stop shooting.

Yeah, it gets like that, doesn't it? Which is why I switched away from .22/250s after my second trip, and switched to .223s until the .204s came along.
I hate to think of what happened to my .22/250s in the PD Patch, but it wasn't pretty. I completely toasted a Winchester 70 Heavy Varmint in one afternoon . I thought it would come around after a good cleaning. I was flat-out wrong....................... Man, that thing would SHOOT, until I took it doggin'....................

[greystone]

I bought a minow bucket arerator and took the little ball off and I insert the tube in the chamber.
It sends cool air down the barrel without leaving moister. WalMart - $7.00
Works great, runs on 2 AA batteries.

Off to Wal Mart I go. This sounds like a nifty idea. I'm shooting a new gun for the first time this weekend. Might have to try this. Dave