I had a friend who experienced hydraulic damage to his barrel on a M1A. An experienced competitive shooter who forgot to patch out any additional oil before firing. Toasted the barrel.
I use wipeout/patch out and then run a light patch of break free clp through followed by a dry patch.
When I lived in Hawaii that was a different environment (90% humidity and 300 inches of rain a year) and many shooters would put oil down bores and then spray a boresnake with carb or brake cleaner and pull it through before shooting. I watched blued steel rust overnight if you forgot to wipe it down and stainless would follow suit if you waited a few days.
Now I typically clean with wipeout or patch out, push a dry patch through to finish and put nothing but bullets down it until it starts to shoot bad. I just cleaned a .270 down to bare steel after several hundred rounds so I could look at the throat. First round out at 200 yards landed in the middle of the group from a "dry barrel".
As smokepole mentioned I would be leery of anyone promoting 4 strokes of a brush for every round fired unless he owned a barrel shop and wanted to push sales.
It does. But I always clean it all out of the bore with some Hoppe's on a patch when I'm done because it also has a lot of dissolved powder and copper fouling in it after your leave it in a dirty bore.
The best thing about wipeout is, it removes copper without being corrosive or needing to run a brush in and out of the bore and over the crown.
Have you noticed how the top of the Wipe-Out can gets rusty after a while? Mine do. That doesn't say much for their "rust preventative".
Wipe Out is my preferred method of cleaning, and it does say it contains a rust preventative, but I've also had it cause corrosion issues, like when some of it is left in the recesses of a flash hider.
Have you noticed how the top of the Wipe-Out can gets rusty after a while? Mine do. That doesn't say much for their "rust preventative".
Wipe Out is my preferred method of cleaning, and it does say it contains a rust preventative, but I've also had it cause corrosion issues, like when some of it is left in the recesses of a flash hider.
Well that sure doesn,t sound very good for preventing rust. If you have had it cause corrosion issues why is it still your preferred method of cleaning ?
