Summary: Learn how to check the barrel with a light bore of a Benelli 12g 28" Shotgun in this free how-to video on proper maintenance of a Benelli 12g 28" Shotgun.
Jason Boatwright has worked in and around the firearm industry for six years. Over the last two years he was a gun library specialist for Cabela's. He has also been a safety team...read more
"Alright, so we just swabbed out the inside of our barrel. We have our bore light here. I'm going to just take my safety cap off my bore light. That's just to keep it from turning on inside the case when I have it. Now I'm going to take that barrel, I'm just going to kind of hang it off the end of the table here. Right off the front. I'm going to look inside the barrel. I'm going to use this bore light down here and you may have to sit up straight and kind of extend your arms out for this. I'm just going to shine that bore light down the barrel. Now with a shotgun barrel, because, typically, most shotgun barrels, except for slug guns, are smooth bore, you could actually, if you don't have a bore light, you could actually hold the barrel up into a light and use it the same kind of way. Sometimes it's even a little bit easier. Alright. What I like to do, I just like to start down here at the end and I just like to work my way down to the bottom side of the barrel. I'm going to give it a good looking even though I did with a bore light. I'm going to do it and I'm going to be looking up into a light here. That's looking real good. It's cleaned out. That bore runner did a real good job with those four or five swabs. If you look in there and you find out that you have a little bit of deposit still, by all means keep using that bore runner. That arbitrary number of three or four swabs is not set in stone. Use it as many times, or as little times as you need it. If you can do it in one time and it is clean use it one time. If you need to use it six or seven times do it six or seven times, but you want to make sure that the lined part, this chrome lined barrel, is clear. Alright, so the next thing we're going to do is we're going to get cleaned up here and we're going to start reassembly."
eHow Article: Checking the Benelli 12g 28" Shotgun with Bore Light