I am curious because I have a wingmaster that prior to gun season, the bore was like a mirror, but after firing some slugs through it (it was a back up for my normal slug gun) it appears that right around the forcing cone the barrel metal is scuffed or something. I had just shot some trap with it a couple weeks ago and it cleaned up just find. I doesd the thing with bore cleaner so i am pretty sure it is not powder residue. Is this in any way harmful or could affect the gun?
does shooting slugs through a gun do something to the bore that shot doesn't?
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Maybe I've been around too long, but I thought everone knew that foster type 'rifled' slugs would lead a bore with only a couple shots. Even one.
You really should chuck your cleaning rod in a hand drill, put an brass, or worse yet, a s.s. tornado brush, on the end, and use the drill to spin the brush. Never dry brush, use solvent.
By the way? What solvent really disolves lead?
You still need the brush.
I've seen shotties so leaded up it took way more than the brass brush to clean them up!
You really should chuck your cleaning rod in a hand drill, put an brass, or worse yet, a s.s. tornado brush, on the end, and use the drill to spin the brush. Never dry brush, use solvent.
By the way? What solvent really disolves lead?
You still need the brush.
I've seen shotties so leaded up it took way more than the brass brush to clean them up!
Jaeger beat me to it....
I was going to add that I sometimes if it's real bad I put one end of the cleaning rod in my cordless drill, and work the brush vigorously. To answer you other question, sadly most solvents, while they are good at removing some lead, don't quite come up to the level needed to remove the massiave amount of leading from foster slugs. If its real bad, alternate between brushing, and swabing the bore with a birchwood casey lead remover cloth works great, just becareful with it it removes blueing too. I had to use that after one session with 75 sellier & bellot slugs, took me an hour, and there was so much lead I probably should have called a hazmat crew
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I was going to add that I sometimes if it's real bad I put one end of the cleaning rod in my cordless drill, and work the brush vigorously. To answer you other question, sadly most solvents, while they are good at removing some lead, don't quite come up to the level needed to remove the massiave amount of leading from foster slugs. If its real bad, alternate between brushing, and swabing the bore with a birchwood casey lead remover cloth works great, just becareful with it it removes blueing too. I had to use that after one session with 75 sellier & bellot slugs, took me an hour, and there was so much lead I probably should have called a hazmat crew
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