A previous thread raised the question about cleaning frequency. Rather than adding this to it, I thought starting a new thread would lose less posters.
When I moly coated bullets, I could clean until I saw no more copper, but I NEVER got all the black out. So even though there may have been advantages to moly, eventually showing a clean swab wasn't one of them.
Recently I cleaned 4 rifles; two .270's, a .25-06 and a .338 Win Mag. It took me about 3 hours until I got almost 100% clean swabs through all of them. I found if I swabbed the barrels with a copper removing solution or foam, let them stand for 15-30 minutes, used a bristle brush just once, then swabs until there was no more blue color, I still had black soot to clean out. In some cases, the swabs just looked gray; if I added more copper remover solution, much to my surprise, I got more blue, telling me that sequential dry swabs that look clean really are not, so I restarted with copper remover again.
I wonder if any shooter colleagues here have found a more efficient method.
Over the years I have used the following products:
Gun Slick Foaming Bore Cleaner
Butch's Bore Shine
Shooter's Choice Copper Remover
Hoppes No 9
Sweet's 7.62 Bore solvent
Hoppes 9 Gun Medic
Gunzilla
Shooter's Choice Bore Cleaner
Montana X-Treme Bore Solvent
Montana X-Treme Copper Creme
Quick Scrub III cleaner spray
Lubricants:
Kroil
Sheath Rust Prevention
DSX cream
Tetra Gun Oil
Shooter's Choice Rust Prevention
Shooter's Choice FP10
G96 Gun Oil
G96 Gun Treatment (I listed this last because it is the last thing I use to lube the clean barrel as well as a polish for the outside o the rifle barrel and stock. Great stuff for that new finish look)
When I moly coated bullets, I could clean until I saw no more copper, but I NEVER got all the black out. So even though there may have been advantages to moly, eventually showing a clean swab wasn't one of them.
Recently I cleaned 4 rifles; two .270's, a .25-06 and a .338 Win Mag. It took me about 3 hours until I got almost 100% clean swabs through all of them. I found if I swabbed the barrels with a copper removing solution or foam, let them stand for 15-30 minutes, used a bristle brush just once, then swabs until there was no more blue color, I still had black soot to clean out. In some cases, the swabs just looked gray; if I added more copper remover solution, much to my surprise, I got more blue, telling me that sequential dry swabs that look clean really are not, so I restarted with copper remover again.
I wonder if any shooter colleagues here have found a more efficient method.
Over the years I have used the following products:
Gun Slick Foaming Bore Cleaner
Butch's Bore Shine
Shooter's Choice Copper Remover
Hoppes No 9
Sweet's 7.62 Bore solvent
Hoppes 9 Gun Medic
Gunzilla
Shooter's Choice Bore Cleaner
Montana X-Treme Bore Solvent
Montana X-Treme Copper Creme
Quick Scrub III cleaner spray
Lubricants:
Kroil
Sheath Rust Prevention
DSX cream
Tetra Gun Oil
Shooter's Choice Rust Prevention
Shooter's Choice FP10
G96 Gun Oil
G96 Gun Treatment (I listed this last because it is the last thing I use to lube the clean barrel as well as a polish for the outside o the rifle barrel and stock. Great stuff for that new finish look)