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<blockquote data-quote="crkckr" data-source="post: 1692496" data-attributes="member: 78056"><p>I use under size nylon brushes and patches... sometimes cotton but more often paper towel cut to size. The brushes can be pulled back thru the bore but never a patch! These are on a strictly one way trip. The only possible exception would be a perfectly clean patch with oil on it. Bore guides and good rods are a must.</p><p></p><p>If you're using a full bore brush without a patch, for at least the first couple of passes I would not pull it back thru the barrel. Unscrew it and clean it. I keep my brushes clean with Brake Cleaner (or Carb cleaner, which is essentially the same thing) from Wally World. Don't put the stuff down your barrel, it can react with some cleaners! If you want to wash out any solvents from your barrel, use alcohol. Make sure it's well oiled afterwards.</p><p></p><p>I like the Bore Tech products but when really cleaning things out, I like Wipe-Out. It really gets the copper out of the barrel. I also, depending on how I feel at the moment, use Sweets 7.62, Hoppes Elite, Butches Bore Shine and Barnes CR-10. I even use Hoppes #9, mainly because I have a gallon of it. It's good for the first couple of passes to flush the larger pieces of crud out of the barrel. Then I go to one of the other cleaners.</p><p>Cheers,</p><p>crkckr</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="crkckr, post: 1692496, member: 78056"] I use under size nylon brushes and patches... sometimes cotton but more often paper towel cut to size. The brushes can be pulled back thru the bore but never a patch! These are on a strictly one way trip. The only possible exception would be a perfectly clean patch with oil on it. Bore guides and good rods are a must. If you're using a full bore brush without a patch, for at least the first couple of passes I would not pull it back thru the barrel. Unscrew it and clean it. I keep my brushes clean with Brake Cleaner (or Carb cleaner, which is essentially the same thing) from Wally World. Don't put the stuff down your barrel, it can react with some cleaners! If you want to wash out any solvents from your barrel, use alcohol. Make sure it's well oiled afterwards. I like the Bore Tech products but when really cleaning things out, I like Wipe-Out. It really gets the copper out of the barrel. I also, depending on how I feel at the moment, use Sweets 7.62, Hoppes Elite, Butches Bore Shine and Barnes CR-10. I even use Hoppes #9, mainly because I have a gallon of it. It's good for the first couple of passes to flush the larger pieces of crud out of the barrel. Then I go to one of the other cleaners. Cheers, crkckr [/QUOTE]
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