For those of you who shoot centerfire for accuracy, how do you clean your rifle?
- Do you use a bore brush? If so, bronze, nylon or stainless?
- What bore cleaner do you use for carbon fouling? Which ones do you like? Which ones do you not like?
- What bore cleaner do you use for copper fouling? Which ones do you like? Which ones do you not like?
- How often (round count) do you typically clean copper fouling (if ever)?
- When you clean out carbon fouling, how many clean patches do you typically need to run through before you consider the bore clean?
- When you are done cleaning the bore, do you run a patch with oil through?
I am trying to get a feel for how other folk are cleaning their rifles. I have been using Hoppes #9 as a bore cleaner until recently when I tried M-Pro 7 and I'm not yet sure if I like it.
I am a 'light/moderate brush user' in that I typically run a bronze brush through about three times per cleaning (in action-to-muzzle direction only) but I never really get a sense of having thoroughly cleaned the bore. The patches will come out increasingly clean but it seems I am just drying out the bore. If I run the bore brush through it again, the patches keep coming out dirty. Is it that the bore is still dirty or is the brush dirty, mucking up the bore when I run it through?
For those of you who do not use a brush at all, is a bore solvent really all that is needed to get the carbon out? How does a patch loosen up the gunk and carry it out of the bore as opposed to just picking up some while mostly absorbing the cleaner?
What does it take to get the bore really clean? And does it even matter? I shoot targets for accuracy (causal shooter) and I do not have a good idea of how big a difference it makes to really get all the fouling out, especially copper fouling.
I recently bought an M-Pro copper cleaner and used it for the first time. It produced green patches so I guess I had copper fouling but is running the cycle once enough? Or should I keep doing it (run wet patches / let soak / run dry patches until dry) until no more green comes out?
How do you clean your centerfire rifle? What have you seen work and what is a waste of money and time in your opinion?
- Do you use a bore brush? If so, bronze, nylon or stainless?
- What bore cleaner do you use for carbon fouling? Which ones do you like? Which ones do you not like?
- What bore cleaner do you use for copper fouling? Which ones do you like? Which ones do you not like?
- How often (round count) do you typically clean copper fouling (if ever)?
- When you clean out carbon fouling, how many clean patches do you typically need to run through before you consider the bore clean?
- When you are done cleaning the bore, do you run a patch with oil through?
I am trying to get a feel for how other folk are cleaning their rifles. I have been using Hoppes #9 as a bore cleaner until recently when I tried M-Pro 7 and I'm not yet sure if I like it.
I am a 'light/moderate brush user' in that I typically run a bronze brush through about three times per cleaning (in action-to-muzzle direction only) but I never really get a sense of having thoroughly cleaned the bore. The patches will come out increasingly clean but it seems I am just drying out the bore. If I run the bore brush through it again, the patches keep coming out dirty. Is it that the bore is still dirty or is the brush dirty, mucking up the bore when I run it through?
For those of you who do not use a brush at all, is a bore solvent really all that is needed to get the carbon out? How does a patch loosen up the gunk and carry it out of the bore as opposed to just picking up some while mostly absorbing the cleaner?
What does it take to get the bore really clean? And does it even matter? I shoot targets for accuracy (causal shooter) and I do not have a good idea of how big a difference it makes to really get all the fouling out, especially copper fouling.
I recently bought an M-Pro copper cleaner and used it for the first time. It produced green patches so I guess I had copper fouling but is running the cycle once enough? Or should I keep doing it (run wet patches / let soak / run dry patches until dry) until no more green comes out?
How do you clean your centerfire rifle? What have you seen work and what is a waste of money and time in your opinion?