maybe a little bummed may need to rebarrel my Remington 700 heavy barrel...

It's amazing the different customer comments on Midway about the Wipe-Out... from awesome to snake oil...

I hate products that get those kinds of reviews... but that's likely the nature of "cleaning" or breaking in a barrel for that matter... :rolleyes:

I'm doubting that there would be a sizeable difference between the effects of Hoppes Bench Rest Copper remover ( that I already have ), if I left it wet over night, & this foaming cleaner if left over night...

I do have a question about using a bronze brush, with these aggressive copper solvents... ( the wipe out claims to dissolve bronze, brass, copper, etc. ) I have a nylon brush or two... would you guys suggest a plastic bristled brush when aggressively cleaning copper instead of a bronze brush ???
 
Yes.
A strong copper solvent will just start dissolving the bronze brush. Which is hard on the brush but mainly will always show color so you can't tell when the copper has been removed from the barrel.

I use the foam on most smokeless rifles and it works well if not wonderfully.
 
I have a couple of rifles that, when coppered up, shoot ugly groups. That's when I bring out the Boretech Eliminator and the nylon bore brushes (from Sinclair). I've said several times that if a fellow hasn't used Boretech or something as good, you just THINK you got all the copper. Couple of days ago I wasn't getting great groups from my 220, and it always shoots good. I cleaned it with Shooter's Choice and got plenty of carbon but didn't see much blue. But...before I went back to shooting, I ran some patches through the bore with the Boretech Eliminator on them and I got a sea of blue. Man, it was really coppered up. Took me a couple of hours of cleaning, soaking, cleaning, soaking, to get it all. Then it shot like a dream, like always. So, like some others have suggested, clean it real good with some of the new stuff (not ammonia based) before you replace the barrel. Can't hurt...
 
I have a .220 Swift benchrest rifle that I bought from my wife's late uncle. It would not shoot worth a darn, no matter what I did with it. I had resolved to send it to Hart (where the barrel came from) to have it cut and rechambered.

That Christmas, however, my wife bought a Foul Out for me. I looked down the bore again--same thing, I saw that the first 2 inches of the bore was just BLACK. So, I decided to give the foul Out a try.

I plugged and filled the bore, following the instructions, and let it run for two, thirty minute cycles. After emptying out the solution, the bore still looked black for the first two inches. "Oh, well," I thought, "I'll patch it out, and get it ready to send off.

I put a proper sized patch on a jag--which I had done many, many times before with this rifle--and started the rod. It went in about an inch--and stopped COLD.

This had me confused--like I mentioned, I had patched the barrel many times before. So, I tapped the handle a couple of times with a small mallet. I heard an audible "SNAP!" and then the rod moved freely.

What came out of the muzzle was a learning experience--it was a SLEEVE of hard, black substance, shot through with streaks of copper! This, friends, was copper fouling at its WORST!!!

I took another patch through the bore--moved easily--and looked.

The bore looked brand new!!!

A recent trip with it put five rounds into a group that was well under a quarter minute at 100 yards, with a crappy, fogged scope. The next thing I'm going to do with this rifle is to top it with a Leupold 45X fixed. Then, we'll see what we can do.

Consider the Foul Out. You may be surprised!
 
I have a foul out, I've never gotten it to work for copper. Perhaps I've never had a barrel that was fouled enough. But it seemed unreliable so I stopped trying. It did work for lead. I don't think they make them any longer.
 
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