Cooling Barrel With All Thread Rod.

[thorborg]

Fill a bunch of barrel length aluminum rods that will fit into your barrel with sodium polyacrylate mixed with water, cap them off. Then Freeze them, bring them in a cooler made just for them, and stuff them in your barrel as needed.
OK, just a thought, condensation likely rust out the barrel.

 

[NeoBlackdog]

Fill a bunch of barrel length aluminum rods that will fit into your barrel with sodium polyacrylate mixed with water, cap them off. Then Freeze them, bring them in a cooler made just for them, and stuff them in your barrel as needed.
OK, just a thought, condensation likely rust out the barrel.

Heat from shooting fast will take care of the condensation!

 

[Koda]

Wet towel harmonics will be fine with me.

Winter is just around the corner. What do you use your rifle for?

 

[arakboss]

Winter is just around the corner. What do you use your rifle for?

Putting holes in paper.

 

[Nosferatu]

What do you use your rifle for?

Those closets don't keep themselves filled!

 

[KaiVal]

I have an idea for cooling the barrel in between strings. For a 30 cal barrel, I would use a 1/4 diameter piece of powder coated all thread rod. The powder coat would minimize risk of damage to the rifling. In between strings I would remove the bolt and run the all thread rod through the receiver and barrel until it breached the muzzle by a few inches. The rod would soak up the heat from the barrel. It might release the heat through the ends of the rod or the rod could be changed out after it got hot.

Has anybody here tried something like this?

The rod is cheap at home depot.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Everbilt-1-4-in-x-6-ft-Zinc-Plated-Steel-Coarse-Threaded-Rod-23011/332734609

Hello, ACE hardware has solid rod, smooth surface and a more denser rod.

 

[osprey]

Who's bright idea was it to use an aluminum rod anyways. It did get warm when the rifle was hot but I don't think it was soaking up enough heat. It cools off very quickly though.

The wet towel works great as long as it is on the barrel the entire time, including while shooting. From now on wet towel is my go to for barrel cooling.

I tried to save you the trouble but you know what they say about horses and water.