best copper fouling solvent

Ammonia is corrosive, water based and can and will damage your barrel if left in too long.
Wipe out is safe for all gun barrels and is a mild rust preventive to boot.
Ammonia stinks to high haven, wipe out is virtual odourless. Wipe out works while you sleep at night.
Great stuff, your wife will not complain.
 
I use Butch's for light duty applications, but KG-12 gets my vote for copper removal.

Safe and effective, the best I have ever used, and I've used many.

- Dave.
 
Where does one find KG-12 or Wipe Out as I have never seen it on the shelves. Presently using Butches, it does a mediocre job on the copper, plus it smells up the shop due to ammonia .
 
Shooter ----/ said:
KG12 has the least odour of any solvent I've used. It has no ammonia.

CR10 or Butch's Boreshine might do that to you.
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Maybe that is the one I was thinking is strong... I know some of the biggest gun nuts I know in real life use KG12... I really have to get some and see what all the hype is about but I need to get out shooting so my guns need to be cleaned before I need to buy more cleaners.
 
I use Wipe-Out mostly. Spray it in...............leave it alone for a couple of hours (or overnight)........patch it out.
I really liked "Extreme Copper Melt", but they went out of business. I picked up some "Montana Exteme" that works very well.
I have CR-10, Butch's, Hoppes in my range box for cleaning at the range
 
SHELL SHUCKER said:
I should have specified....Won't harm modern polymer and epoxy finishes. But it will harm shellac, varnish and oil based finishes. IE: Don't get the stuff on Tru Oil finished stocks.:)
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Gotcha. I had it foam all over my 527 stock and its fine. No idea what the heck the finish on them is but its a pain when you want to strip it.
 
I always clean in two stages. Might have to repeat in a real bad barrel, like a used milsurp. I use a mild abrasive, like RemClean or JB Paste to scrub away a layer of powder fouling, then slather in a copper solvent like Cr-10 or Sweets 7.62 for a couple hours. if i think i am done, I patch with some more RemClean to take away all the copper crud, and oil for storage.

This process might have to be repeated each day for up to a week on a real bad rifle. The pounded in powder fouling protects the copper fouling from the copper solvent. Hence the mild abrasive step.
 
Trinimon said:
Another vote for WipeOut. Almost zero scrubbing required. Spray the foam, let is sit a few hours, run a few patches and you're done. The sh!t just works. Stay away from CopperZilla or FrogLube solvent, they do nothing.
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you must be doing it wrong lol. CopperZilla lets me push nice long cork screw coils of fouling out with zero effort. Smells nice too :)
 
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