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had it with chemical solvents? try an enzyme!
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<blockquote data-quote="4ked Horn" data-source="post: 69143" data-attributes="member: 11"><p>Well everyone. I just got done cleaning my good ol' J,C. Higgins .22 with coppermelt. I have had this gun since I was 9 or 10 so thats about 27 years. I have cleaned it from time to time with a few passes of Hoppes#9 and a bronze brush and some patches. It has seen thousands of lead rounds and hundreds of copper plated ones years ago when dad was paying for the ammo. First patch came out black with lead chunks on it. At around patch 12 - 14 the grey patches turned blue. It was 15 more patches before the patch came out white. 29 patches in all. But its done. And that has to be the worst one in the safe but I still can't beleive how long it took. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif</p><p></p><p>Maybe I'll get Gonehuntingagain to post some pictures of the patches for me.</p><p></p><p>Next wil be my brothers Marlin target .22. It was dads gun when he was a kid and shot NRA postal matches, 50 years ago. That will be fun. Hopefully dad kept it in better shape then I did with mine. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="4ked Horn, post: 69143, member: 11"] Well everyone. I just got done cleaning my good ol' J,C. Higgins .22 with coppermelt. I have had this gun since I was 9 or 10 so thats about 27 years. I have cleaned it from time to time with a few passes of Hoppes#9 and a bronze brush and some patches. It has seen thousands of lead rounds and hundreds of copper plated ones years ago when dad was paying for the ammo. First patch came out black with lead chunks on it. At around patch 12 - 14 the grey patches turned blue. It was 15 more patches before the patch came out white. 29 patches in all. But its done. And that has to be the worst one in the safe but I still can't beleive how long it took. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] Maybe I'll get Gonehuntingagain to post some pictures of the patches for me. Next wil be my brothers Marlin target .22. It was dads gun when he was a kid and shot NRA postal matches, 50 years ago. That will be fun. Hopefully dad kept it in better shape then I did with mine. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img] [/QUOTE]
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