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Generally, most know how many holes their barrel has in it......

You don’t need the tapered stopper. The tube I’m showing is soft enough that you seal the chamber at the neck. No cleaner gets behind it.

Haha. I resemble that.

Al,

Have a similar collection--which I've considered reducing recently, as I'm downsizing various other collections.

When using foam cleaners I shoot 'em into the muzzle too--but put a fired case in the chamber, wrapped with just enough thin tape to prevent the foam from getting into the action.

Lots of good tips here. -Al

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Everyone please pay attention to Ed's use of Isopropyl alcohol. He uses 99%. Note that most all druge store Isopropyl is 70%. That means it is 30% water. DO NOT use 70% in your bore (or anywhere else you don't want potential corrosion. Likewise, do not use 99% on your skin.

the 99% stuff is what I actually make some case lubricant of that and lanolin

i make it too. it is better than aerosol Hornady one shot spray.

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Just barely my friend ; ]

I've got a bud that shoots benchrest for score matches & is now using,,,,, PB Blaster to mop his bores with. Normally I'd say; you got to be kidding me, but he's been winning so much in the last few years that I can't question a single one of his procedures.

It’s good to hear that most of you care enough about your firearms to clean them regularly. Just one or two points.



Don’t be fooled by store bought cleaners! They are overpriced and don’t work well.

All companies hire a scientist, but not for research and development or safety. They are hired because they went to university and learned a lot of chemical names and complex descriptors for common things, like ethyl ether (acid and alcohol), tapolene (water), glucose or dextrose (sugar), and blunt force trauma (being beaten by a revenuer) They also have letters after their names. It impresses people, and when you’re young, is a great help in picking up girls.

How about ethylene glycol monobutyl ether (EGME) or C3H8O2 aka ‘Shine’? If you think of a fancy mixed drink like a Pina Colada, you’d be on the right track for what this is. Instead of rum, pineapples, coconut creams, fruit and ice, just think of a bunch of alcohols mixed together.

Put this on a label, and watch the retail price of a bottle of ‘shine’ go through the roof! Of course, it’s an organic solvent, just like pappy’s corn squeezin’s. It will strip or thin paint. Or you can use it as a spot remover. Some folks call it Mountain Dew or White Lightning, but please, don’t drink it! The store bought, commercially made stuff will make you sick or blind you! It’s not purified like home brew!!!

Just remember, companies cannot charge big bucks if customers find out their gun cleaner is made from potato peelings and/or other fermented plants. So they get all fancy, hire a scientist, and call the peelings, sugar,etc – hydrocarbons, and other $25 names.

See your local moonshiner for inexpensive, effective gun cleaners that you can drink!


Whishhoooh…white lightnin’!

I see you don’t own a bore scope.

But I do! I was usin' it just now.

Please note the arrow. It's pointin' at my prescription borescope! I wear these every time I clean my guns.

oh but I do and that's exactly why I stated what I did

Don’t use bronze brushes and don’t use Kroil and just took a very fouled barrel to bare metal clean, including complete removal of the carbon ring, in 20 minutes using commercial cleaners and a nylon brush. Done.

well I noticed you failed to say exactly what you used though..

You were so certain you'd "discovered" the absolute BEST way to get carbon out of a bore that a number of people apparently didn't want to answer, for whatever reason.

My experience involves prepping a number of bores down to bare steel for installation of Dyna Bore-Coat since it was introduced over 15 years ago. It requires the bore to be absolutely clean, and the fastest method I came up with after some experimentation was around 20 strokes of a tight bore brush wrapped in a cotton patch, then slathered with JB Bore-Cleaning Compound. Would be willing to bet that's quicker than a brush and Kroil, since I also have considerable experience with Kroil. The JB method takes about three minutes--and eventually became part of the directions for installing DBC, which is highly effective in preventing carbon build-up.

At least a couple of people also suggested highly effective carbon cleaner/solvents.

For also curious about what kind of scope you have on the rifle you used to shoot the half-inch group at 50 yards.

What's the consensus on shelf life for Sweet;s 7.62?

MM