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What have you found to be the quickest and most effective way to remove copper fouling from barrels, that is safe to the barrel and user ?
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Wipe Out foaming bore cleaner.
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Bore Tech Eliminator, hands down. It's non-toxic, won't harm bores and can get both powder fouling and copper out quickly using just patches. If you're really in a hurry, you use a nylon brush with the stuff, but it's not really necessary. Simply run saturated patches through. They'll start out purple and then turn to blue, and then light blue. When they're coming out white, you're done except for a light coat of whatever lube you prefer. Best stuff I've ever found. No contest.
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Gawd..don't you ever sleep..... Ingwe
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I'm on the left coast. Not all THAT late here. What's YOUR excuse???
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Chesty Puller woke me up...again....
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Thad dog's too damn smart. I see he even booted up your computer and logged you onto the fire!
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Thad dog's too damn smart. I see he even booted up your computer and logged you onto the fire! Yeah, I'm gonna have to send a pic of him doing that in my First update.. Seriously though Ive already got him hitting stuff with his paw ( a precursor to him pressing push plates to open doors...) Cool little dude...if he would only sleep..... Ingwe To the OP...sorry....back on topic!!..
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Wipe Out.
I resisted buying Wipe Out until I used up most of my other solvents laying around--wished I had bought some earlier......
I use Shooters Choice or regular ol' Hoppes first to remove most of the powder if the barrel is really dirty, then use the Wipe Out. With Wipe Out I have one newish M700 that was virtually impossible to get a clean patch--the first time I tried Wipe Out was the first time I saw clean patches from that rifle.
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If I'm not in a hurry, which is 99% of the time, I use Wipe Out. One or two soaking with it gets everything there is to get and leaves the barrel completely clean.
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What have you found to be the quickest and most effective way to remove copper fouling from barrels, that is safe to the barrel and user ? I see that this is your first post here on 24 Hour. Welcome aboard, and come back often. I've never given wipe-out a try, but here good things about it for getting the copper out. I have two bottles of Sweets Copper Remover, and will use them up before looking for another copper remover.
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I'm using Shooter's Choice right now, but have heard good things about Bore Tech and would like to give it a try.
your flippant remarks which you so adeptly sling
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Along with Wipe-Out, I've been using a lot of Montana Extreme. This works just as well and can be left in a bore indefinitely.
But if a barrel really fouls, I treat it with Ultra Bore Coat. Life is too short to be scrubbing barrels. In fact I have quit scrubbing them, as they either get UBC'ed or have Montana Extreme left in the bore overnight.
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I use Sweets 7.62 to remove copper fouling. I have used wipe out and have no complaints about it.
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Montana extreme to clean the bore before UBC. After that, wipeout or Butch's Bore Shine.
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I use Pro-Shot Copper Solvent IV.
Seems to do a good job on removing both copper and powder residue.
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What's a good source for Wipeout ?
My supply of Sweets is about gone.
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I currently use Barnes CR-10, which is more or less the same as Sweets 7.62. I'll probably give something else a try when it's gone. Not because it doesn't work, as it does a decent job, but because I'd rather use something I can leave in the bore for longer than 15 minutes without fear of damage. Oh, and I'm not a big fan of the pungent ammonia smell. Here's a test of a bunch of different products. If there is a cleaner you are interested in that is not on his list, he will accept a small sample size to test (my friend sent him the MPro-7). I'd like to see how Bore Tech Eliminator and Montana Xtreme Copper Killer stack up to the rest, but I won't be giving either a try until the CR-10 is gone. http://www.frfrogspad.com/cleaners.htm
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