What bore cleaner do you use ?!

alf said:

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One picture says a thousand words. All I use now and all I ever will use. One thing about BTE is..

You have to use nylon bore brushes and a CF cleaning rod. Patches are fine so long as the patch puller is nylon as well as the jags and always keep the stuff out of your action, I use a Tipton bore guide, always. Tipton also offers a nice nylon bore brush set (Amazon.com) for much less that buying brushes from the BTE people.

I know it works and works very well because I inspect all my bores before cleaning and after cleaning with either my Hawkeye (Gradient Lens) borescope or an electronic inspection camera. The before and after difference is amazing. I also clean the tubes on my handguns with it, especially my S&W 460 XVR revolver which I hunt with and shoot jacketed pills.

Used to use Sweets 762 solvent (works too) but stinks terribly. BTE has no smell.

I know people who 'swear' by other elixers, that is until I get the Hawkeye out and let them actually see inside their tube and at what a poor job their 'elixer is doing or not doing.

BTE and only BTE for me. I do follow it with a patch of Rem Oil if the firearm is to be stored. BTE tends to strip any preservative from the bore.

Use the Bore Tech polish during break-in and follow up cleanings in combination after eliminator.... Good Stuff!! Just follow directions.

I use Wipe Out and Bore Tech Carbon Cleaner.
If you use the Wipe Out with the Accelerator, don't leave it in your barrel for more than 4 hours. According to the owner of Wipe Out.

H82MISS said:

I have been using KG12 copper solvent, and wondered if there is something else anyone else uses they find better in any way? I was using Butchs Bore Shine, but thought the KG line might do a better job without the smell.
I know theres tons of videos out there on various bore cleaners, and methods of cleaning but I was looking for advice from you shooters here.
Thanks !!!

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I just started using modern Spartan systems Rex reviews on you tube did a review on it for a year and he said it does what they say it does. I love it follow the system and it don't take long to clean your gun. There's a carbon destroyer,copper,lead,destroyer,Spartan accuracy oil the stuff works better then anything out there. Check out the website and check out the review.hope this helps!

Bore Tech Eliminator is what H.S. Precision Rifles uses. Good enough for them, good enough for me. Nowadays I don't worry about copper fouling til accuracy falls off. I use the bore snake with rem oil or Ballistol whenever I "clean". Then, when needed, I will grab the Bore Tech and follow the instructions for copper cleaning.

I'm a long range varmint hunter not a paper puncher but I believe that accuracy is highly dependent on cleanliness and my needs are accuracy. Following is how I clean my custom rifles.

1. Initial scrub with Butch's Bore Shine including soak for about 15 minutes and patch it out.
2. Wipe out / Patch out with Accelerator - soak for about an hour. Patch it out.
3. Inspect bore with scope. If clean, skip to step 6.
4. Not clean. If carbon, use another cycle of WO/PO and inspect. If Cu, Bore Tech Eliminator soak for a half hour and patch out. Inspect - Cu fouling another round of Eliminator.
5. Inspect. Check the corners of the groves carefully. If fouled, Patch with IOSSO by short stroking, bronze brush for 6-8 stroke cycles followed by a patch and another bore scope inspection.
6. Final brush in Slip 2000 and soak for 15 minutes and patch out. If patch shows clean, patch in EEZOX or Slip 2000 EWL.

I always make sure that a complete bore inspection and cleaning is completed about every 50 rounds fired.

The most important tool in thorough cleaning is a good bore scope. I've found that leaving carbon or copper in a barrel results in continued build up. Patch indications cannot be relied upon to tell the story.

Good luck.... This is not the fun part of the sport and I'm sure that there are a lot more methods to achieve cleanliness.

I have a ton of different bore cleaners and I can't settle on one. I use
Ballistol on the outside of my guns you can spray it on the wood or
on the leather or on your shoes if you want to. It doesn't hurt anything.
Zeke

I used to use Hoppe's #9 exclusively but they were forced to take the benzene out as it is a known carcinogen. I have been cleaning with Butch's then #9 to remove any trace of ammonia. Jag till clean then something that will likely raise controversy, I spray a mob with silicon spray and run that back and forth a couple times as a final cleaning and bore preservative. I much prefer the stability of silicon compounds to petroleum based products for preservation.

Hoppes #9 for carbon, sweets for copper and tubbs final finish and maintenance when needed. Rem oil on outside and inside of pistols and Ar Mobile 1 synthetic

Used hoppes/sweets never more than 5-10 min and always cut it with shooters choice or kroil. My smith recommended BTE several years ago and been using it ever since with some occasional shooters choice.

Bore Tech, it works!

Great info/advice. I need to invest in a bore scope.

H82MISS said:

I have been using KG12 copper solvent, and wondered if there is something else anyone else uses they find better in any way? I was using Butchs Bore Shine, but thought the KG line might do a better job without the smell.
I know theres tons of videos out there on various bore cleaners, and methods of cleaning but I was looking for advice from you shooters here.
Thanks !!!

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Wipe out with Accelerator.

Found KG-12 and WOW. With what just what I've tried KG-12 is the best COPPER remover. The copper dissolving tests seem quite accurate to me. Seems to ALWAYS be sold out too. Don't know if it's Mfg end, Retail end, or it's THAT GOOD.
I used "Pro-Shot Copper Solvent" waiting on my KG-12 to ship. It worked pretty well, but not as well.
I also use KG-2 BORE POLISH, JB BORE Polish and Cleaner Pastes with good results.
MOLY coating your bullets and lubing bore with moly is probably the best way to eliminate copper fouling and bore wear, IM(very)HO . I'll be making the switch and trying it after next reload setup for my 300WBY Vanguard. A bad copper fouler and 3 shot HOT BARREL. Will be testing for heat, throat/bore wear and fouling.