How do you all clean your shotgun bores?

Yes, I clean those ports .... ( don't make me come down there and smack you ...) ..... they work better if they're clean / no wonder you don't like ported guns :D
 
You're right about me not liking ports.....haven't cleaned the ports in my GTI since I bought it new about 17 years ago...........

Actually, I was hoping the crud would clog them up real good so the blast wouldn't be so bad...no such luck!.........:p
 
Yep, only clean those ports when absolutely necessary! ;)
I had a rude awakening at the Zone 7 (western states) Skeet Championships some years ago. I hadn't given much thought to making a special effort to clean my ports. I'd shot a 12-ga event and was about to slip in the tubes for a smaller gun event. I did my typical pre-tube cleaning, but that's when the ports decided to dump their accumulated wad plastic and block the tubes. All I had with me was fuzzy sticks (Tyco tool) and after many tries, I realized they weren't going to cut it. Luckily, my teammate had a brush and Shooters Choice.
 
1) Saturate bore with WD-40 & let it soak for a day (pointing down).
2) Run a bronze brush through it a few times.
3) Degrease with brake cleaner (non-chlorinated).
4) Recoat bore & exterior with Birchwood Casey's Barricade.
 
Funny...the gun I'm talking about is a chrome lined Benelli...it's just that I probably fired more than 100 slugs (Fiocchi)...so it was really dirty. I know it's the ammo since the same day I fired several hundred rounds of federal (cheap skeet ammo) through a different Benelli and it was easy to clean.
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That's alittle different. I think it was ShotgunWorld forum ( it was a while back ) some were having the same problem. If i remember right they ended up buffing the bore out to make it smoother or Benelli gave them new barrels ( ? ). Pretty sure it was just 1 type of Benelli shotgun they were having that problem with.
 
Slugs will deposit more lead fouling than shot will anyway, that's why the benelli with the 100 slugs through it was much harder to clean.

If the barrel isn't rifled, generous soaking of #9, plus letting it sit, plus changing the direction of the brush as your passing it through will take care of it. NOTE: don't ever do that for a rifled barrel, but it won't hurt a smoothbore. May destroy the brush quicker, but it gets the lead out.
 
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