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Summary: Learn how to check the barrel with a bore light on a Springfield XD 9mm handgun in this free how-to video on proper maintenance care of a Springfield XD 9mm handgun.
Jason Boatwright has worked in and around the firearm industry for six years. He has been a gun library specialist for Cabela's for over two years, and has also been a safety team...read more
"Here we are we got our bore light here, we got our swabbed out barrel, our clean barrel, and I'm just going to take my bore light and I'm going to look inside the barrel and I'm going to see that I've removed all of the deposits from the rifling. What I like to do is I just start that bore light deep inside the barrel and that helps me look further up here. Then, as I work my eyesight, moving in a circular motion down to the bottom of the barrel, I start to pull that bore light out. So, here we go. You can close one eye or you can leave both eyes open, I don't recommend closing both eyes. Alright! You can see how I'm pulling my bore light out here. I'm not really seeing anything, it looks like those couple swabs that I used my bore snake did a really good job those brushes got in there real good, and then the swab at the end just polished it up real nice. Alright! We're going to set that down and, actually, our next step we've got everything cleaned up, we've got everything wiped up so really what we're going to get to is we're going to start getting back into our stages of reassembly."