So I followed the advice of my extremely experienced and intelligent compatriots and took the brush to my bore again.
Egads! Zounds!
I never realised that I needed to KEEP brushing the bore until it gets clean!
Last night I did the bronze brush 30 times (30 in-and-out) and then ran some Remington Bore Cleaner on a patch (wet patch) twice --
-- and repeated this process 23 times, until I ran out of patches. (Being the newbie that I am, I only had the first set of patches that came with my Hoppes No.9 cleaning kit. Whereupon I let the barrel "cook off" by standing for about 15 minutes, and took my last patch and oiled the bore.)
And still the patches were coming out black black black -- as black as the first patch. I have put about a sum total of 300 rounds through it (granted, mostly consisting of the nasty dirty Winchester USA stuff...)
Does it EVER get not-black anymore? How many patches should I expect to use? (Yes, I cleaned her after ever session before, just apparently, not well enough.) Can I coat the entire barrel/bore with remington bore cleaner/hoppes no.9 and let it sit overnight? Would that help, or would it be too corrosive?
And how often do you replace your bronze bore brush? Mine was starting to shed after just this one session -- I think I lost about 1/3rd of the bristles onto the floor by the time I ran out of patches.
Also, how do you clean out the firing pin hole? It looks like there's a whole bunch of that red Winchester primer crud in there along the edge that I can't quite scrape off with a needle. Do I need to worry about all the crap that falls INTO the hole (and presumably into the dark la-la land that is inside my slide assembly?)
Thanks!
-Jon
P.S. No Glocks for me -- the 9mm ones jump out of my hand when firing (weird hand structure), the .45's are way to fat (weird SMALL hand structure), and they bite my web. Not to mention I like a slide release that I can activate without a empty clip, not just a slide lock...
Egads! Zounds!
I never realised that I needed to KEEP brushing the bore until it gets clean!
Last night I did the bronze brush 30 times (30 in-and-out) and then ran some Remington Bore Cleaner on a patch (wet patch) twice --
-- and repeated this process 23 times, until I ran out of patches. (Being the newbie that I am, I only had the first set of patches that came with my Hoppes No.9 cleaning kit. Whereupon I let the barrel "cook off" by standing for about 15 minutes, and took my last patch and oiled the bore.)
And still the patches were coming out black black black -- as black as the first patch. I have put about a sum total of 300 rounds through it (granted, mostly consisting of the nasty dirty Winchester USA stuff...)
Does it EVER get not-black anymore? How many patches should I expect to use? (Yes, I cleaned her after ever session before, just apparently, not well enough.) Can I coat the entire barrel/bore with remington bore cleaner/hoppes no.9 and let it sit overnight? Would that help, or would it be too corrosive?
And how often do you replace your bronze bore brush? Mine was starting to shed after just this one session -- I think I lost about 1/3rd of the bristles onto the floor by the time I ran out of patches.
Also, how do you clean out the firing pin hole? It looks like there's a whole bunch of that red Winchester primer crud in there along the edge that I can't quite scrape off with a needle. Do I need to worry about all the crap that falls INTO the hole (and presumably into the dark la-la land that is inside my slide assembly?)
Thanks!
-Jon
P.S. No Glocks for me -- the 9mm ones jump out of my hand when firing (weird hand structure), the .45's are way to fat (weird SMALL hand structure), and they bite my web. Not to mention I like a slide release that I can activate without a empty clip, not just a slide lock...