Wachsmann
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Has anyone ever see any of the strong copper cleaners dissolve a patch. I may have been trying to use non cotton patches but I thought they were cotton.
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HTJ
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You could give wipe out a try with its accelerator. No elbow grease needed. Use a few patches soaked with wipeout accelerator than spray wipeout foam and let it sit overnight if needed. Repeated until no more blue on patch.
witches brew from Darrel Holland ART is another great product. Required elbow grease. Best of luck
Try the Tubb Final Finish kit. It worked on an old 7.62mm I had a long time ago...
I bought some ammonia from the local Ace hardware and use that on patches for very fouled barrels. I only let it soak for a couple of minutes then follow with a synthetic scrubbing jag and then a patch. I do that until there is no more blue. Just be sure to clean it up well, do not leave the ammonia in or on the barrel. I've only had to do that once but it worked well.
Well shot rifle last night with less than stellar results a couple nice groups then a flier! Cleaned again today then discovered a loose front action screw (I know DUH to me
). Wasn't quite 1/16 turn loose but loose. Torqued to 60inch pounds. Here's a 4 shot group, 1st Shot is the clean barrel although pitted in the leade. 2-4 in the group below it in the nice ragged hole. I'm happier now although I'll always know the leade is pitted! Load was 130 grain classic hunter Berger, 59 grains Imr4350 Fed 215match primer, seated just off lands!! Thanks for all the recommendations!!!!!
). Wasn't quite 1/16 turn loose but loose. Torqued to 60inch pounds. Here's a 4 shot group, 1st Shot is the clean barrel although pitted in the leade. 2-4 in the group below it in the nice ragged hole. I'm happier now although I'll always know the leade is pitted! Load was 130 grain classic hunter Berger, 59 grains Imr4350 Fed 215match primer, seated just off lands!! Thanks for all the recommendations!!!!!
Bingoc
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What's this "Bottle of Marriage Counseling Juice"
Oh yea I learned if I wanted any of the adult beverages left to sip on I had to lock it up in my gun room. The my wife came in to visit and asked what the bottle was with all my gun powder. So I told her here meet my marriage counselor! Jameson Irish Whiskey! Of course I then had to share!
venatic
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Well I fell for it again.... I have most if not all the cleaners mentioned throughout this post. Except the CarbOut... so ordered some from Brownells. Add that to the list of cleaners that do remove powder residue but don't really do anything to tough for lack of better term baked on carbon.
Soaking a half dozen times with Carb Out and then scrubbing with bronze brush got most of the carbon out..... same as Slip2000/ KG 1/ Boretech Eliminator / all the different foams etc.
All work about the same so pick what's available and cheap and get some good brushes.
Soaking a half dozen times with Carb Out and then scrubbing with bronze brush got most of the carbon out..... same as Slip2000/ KG 1/ Boretech Eliminator / all the different foams etc.
All work about the same so pick what's available and cheap and get some good brushes.
Thought I'd drill down and add that I did an experiment for a while back as I read that snipers (whatever..) don't clean the copper out just carbon cleaner to avoid needing a "fouling shot". Some of my barrels need 5-6 fouling shots (I think they don't now, all broken in, I was young and think too much.) Aaaaanyway....I punched with bore paste (KG) and then something that didn't remove copper to wipe out the bore paste and voi-frickin'-la, cold clean shot bullsesye. I don't do that anymore as most of mine shoot that way clean now due to break in and lot's of rounds down, but thought it might be fun for people to know, copper isn't necessarily evil. An old timer I was whining to at the range about a new rifle asked me how many rounds I had through it. 60 I said. He screwed up his face and said come back to me when you have 200. He was right.....
Frank Kalisz
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Does anyone have any love for Ed'd Red? I'd been doing a soak with that before I do the bronze brush. And then I push my patches with mineral spirits.
I also have a can of Wipe Out on hand but I used it only once so far. I soaked overnight with it after my typical cleaning (described above) and applied a second time which seemed to flush all the blue copper stains out - so I guess it's okay.
I also have a can of Wipe Out on hand but I used it only once so far. I soaked overnight with it after my typical cleaning (described above) and applied a second time which seemed to flush all the blue copper stains out - so I guess it's okay.
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Frank Kalisz
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I just do the basic - 1 part each of kerosene, auto transmission fluid, mineral spirits and acetone. I don't expect it to do much for copper but I hope it works well for carbon.
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