How clean is your bore?

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wolf 1415

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Do you guys clean your bores 100% each time?
By 100% I mean until that last patch comes out spotless and dry, followed by the bronze brush, which unleashes more gunk and goo. I take my Beretta Elite 92 out twice a week and the bore scrubbing is making me crazy. I use Tetra's bore cleaner, which does a nice job, but jeez, the time it takes...

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I make mine that clean about once in 400-500 rds (once a month), but other times, I just wipeit off, and lube where needed. Try Pro-Shot products. Never in my life have I cleaned an absolutely filthy gun in so short of a time (500 FMJs followed by 300 LSWCs and 10 mins cleaning to a spotless gun). The most important thing is scrub a little and let the stuff sit (no matter what brand) for at least 5 minutes inside your bore before swabbing it out. Pro-Shot smells like oranges so the wife doesn't complain either!

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Wolf, I'm a little nuts about cleaning, so keep that in mind. I usually just shoot a hundred or so rounds at a session, but clean completely afterwards. Hoppes #9. A wet patch down the barrel, followed by a brush, then two or three dry patches. Repeat. Then three patches of Kleen Bore Lead Wipes. Then a patch with Hoppes, followed by two dry patches. I check the bore with an 8x magnifier looking for lead and never find any after cleaning.

Did I mention I was nuts? :D


Dick
 
Brass brush from the chamber end in autos, muzzle on revolvers. Chambers in cylinder til no junk visible. Never use a patch. I just finish up with an oily mop. I used to clean clean clean but stopped 10 yrs ago. No ill effects noted. Oil stops rust. Have had no pitting nor accuracy drop. Also use just about any oil except cooking oil.
 
I clean my guns every time they are used. The procedure I use is the same on all of them. A solvent soaked swab through the bore (breach to muzzle) to remove abrasive stuff, let barrel sit for a few minutes while I use the clean side of the same swab to clean less critical areas. Then 20 passes with a bronze brush followed by a few passes with a tight fitting clean swab. lube as necessary, I use Tetra gun.
 
I shoot about 10 times a month. (I'm new to the sport so I still love it guy)
I bought a few bore snakes in the calibers of the pistols I own. I let some hoppes sit in the bore for a few minutes and then "snake it". I was very impressed with this tool. It works like crazy. It even has a bronze brush built into it. Super clean in no time.
Get a few.
Jeepster
 
I would clean the bore completely after shooting 2 rounds...

CMOS


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get a bore snake. these things work great! one pull really cleans up the barrel but i also run just a few patches through.
 
Wolf

It used to drive me nuts that it took so long to get a clean bore, then I started giving the brass brush a quick squirt with the whatever spray solvent I was using to clean with after scrubbing each time, and the bore got cleaner much faster.
 
Clean?


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I just add a little BreakFree CLP to the action, barrel bushing, hammer, trigger area, slide rails, and keep on shootin'!

Once every year or two I actually 'clean' the gun.
I fire between 500-2,000 rounds per month (counting on business). I fire 50-100 rds every Monday (single IPSC stage) and compete at least once a month in USPSA.

Reliability is critical.

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Depends on how much fiber I've had recently.
Oh.... sorry got confused there. Usually after going to the range I'll at least run a brush through and then a couple of oiled rags followed by a dry one or two. I'm not looking for spotless just reasonably clean.
 
This raises an interesting (to me any way) question: what are the critical areas to clean if one is short on time?

Barrel? Extractor? Breech face?

Skorzeny

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