I just wanted to give you a quick story about my Savage 99 at the range today. First off, though, I need to give you a bit of history.

KYHillChick bought me this Savage 99 in 308 WIN in 2003 for my birthday. I’ve used it every year as my Opening Day goto rifle since. I encountered a bunch of problems getting it ready for its first season. Most of them were easily worked out. The one lingering problem was that it required at least 5 fouling shots every year before it would begin to shoot accurately. From there on, it had good days and bad. However, I only shoot it fairly close ranges, so I was never really worried.

In 2014, I bought a new rifle, a Ruger Hawkeye in 30-06, and decided that I was going to start it off right with Dyna-Bore Coat. With whatever remained, I was going to do as many of my deer rifles as possible. The Savage 99 was second on that list.

What is Dyna-Tek Bore Coat?

Normally, I don’t go for stuff like this.  However, John Barnesness has been touting it for years. He also wrote the instruction sheet that comes with the kit. It is this high-tech slime you put in the rifle bore. It goes on a bit like thin nail lacquer. After drying, you take the rifle out to the range and run 10 rounds through it to bake the stuff in. After that, you’re good for many years

I quote the Amazon blurb:

The upside to this stuff is that it supposedly:

• Reduces copper and lead fouling
• Makes cleaning easier
• May improve accuracy
• Reduces corrosion

The downside:

• The cost.  $20 for a half-ounce bottle.  It says it’ll treat 5-6 rifles.  I have actually done more.
• The prep.  If you do this right, you’ll shoulder will be sore– 100 strokes with a patch jammed around a copper brush.
• Frankly, I felt silly going through all this work to paint a clear liquid down my barrels. It seemed like a lot of work for nothing.

It may appear silly, but the results are certainly anything but.

Every year, as I’m standing down from deer season, I clean all the rifles with Ed’s Red before putting them away. I then run a dry patch through them when I bring them out for the next deer season. Ed’s Red does a remarkable job of working over whatever residue remains during the interim.

Yesterday I brought the Savage 99 out to the range, and ran a dry patch through as usual. Let me add here that those first dry patches have been coming back cleaner since I did the Dyna-Tek Bore Coat treatment. Now, for the miracle: at 100 yards, my first shot was a perfect 2-inches high at 12 O’Clock– exactly where it had shot last year and the previous year. Fouling shots are no longer necessary.

I am a very happy Dyna-Tek Bore Coat customer.

PS: I had the Mauser From Hell out for what I hoped to be its final shakedown before deer season. It too printed its first round, 2 inches high at 100 yards. Yikes! The Mauser From Hell was #3 on that Dyna-Tek Bore Coat list.

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