Impact shifts post cleaning?

[TradLife406]

I cleaned the carbon out of my 22 elkmoor barrel after the last range session. She was a dirty girl.

Ran out to shoot after work and was hitting a foot left.

To be ffffffaaaaaiiiiirrrrr my scope is an Arken so it probably lost zero. But I haven't had an issue with it or the other one yet.

Anyone noticed a huge jump before and after cleaning?

 

[wapitibob]

I used to see a small jump then started using lock-ese as a final step, fixed it for me.

 

[BLJ]

Had the accuracy gotten worse prior to the cleaning

 

[mxgsfmdpx]

A huge jump? No.

I’d suspect something else is at play.

 

[77TMK]

A foot left is a seriously damaged crown or wildly shifted scope.

 

[JGRaider]

Not only have I never had an Arken scope shift zero while cleaning a rilfe, I've never had any scope do that, ever. I've also had my Arken's in gun boots and such over hundreds of miles on my UTV/ATV and never had one lose zero that way either.

 

[Matt5266]

When I USED to clean my barrels I'd always see a shift and a widened spread. We're talking maybe 1-2 mils off and say 1inch group turned to 1.5


But a foot?! Naw somethings wrong here.

 

[Caseknife]

Did you take the action out of the stock and not get it settled in properly after?

 

[IAm_Not_Lost]

No cleaning will cause a foot shift at any typical zero distance (say…out to 200 yards).

I also doubt your scope just randomly lost zero without there being any drop or other damage to it.

I feel there is something else at play, or you need to re-evaluate.