How Do You Clean A Barrel?

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Hey all.

For the first time tonight I used Wipeout. Kind of a distaster as I had foam everywhere. Just a little squirt is all ya need. :redface:

Anyway.............

I have read that people have had good results with Wipeout.

All I have are factory barrels right now. Am wondering what the majority go with for cleaning. How and what ya use?
 
I use a bore guide and Hoppes #9 Benchrest. I follow the directions on the bottle and at the end run a patch with #9 oil on it through the barrel. I dont clean the chamber every time, the bore guide saves me of that. But when I do I use a shotgun soft brush with some solvent. I only use a copper brush when the patches dont come out clean. Wet patch, dry patch until they are clean out the muzzle. All this with a Dewy rod.


PS Max Owner if you take a yorgurt container or peanut butter jar (plastic) and cut a hole in the top you can put it over the end of your rifle and it will catch all the nasties and patches. Keep your rug clean too. :D
 
I use Wipeout but not the foam type...prefer the liquid that you squirt on a patch....also use Hoppe's # 9, love the smell !

When I was young and un-attached I used to sprinkle a few drops of Hoppes on my Stanfields and head for the bar on a Friday night....would you believe I couldn't fight the girls off....WOW..aphrodesiac you say ??? :D
 
I use Barnes CR-10. I tried other solvents and Birwood casey Foaming Bore scrubber. None of them worked to remove copper. Run a Soaked CR-10 patch through after trying all the rest and wow, still blue on the patch. CR-10 works.
Run it through on a nylon brush, leave 20 minutes, run a couple of wet patches through and voila clean as a whistle. Then I run a bunch of patches through with G-96 3 in one on them to remove CR-10 residue. Then a few dry.

Never tried Wipeout!
 
I have never used Wipeout. I use M-PRO-7 and an Otis cleaning kit. Works well and a little goes a long way. When I am just wiping the bore prior to firing I use a dry boresnake.
 
Kevan said:
I use Wipeout but not the foam type...prefer the liquid that you squirt on a patch....also use Hoppe's # 9, love the smell !

When I was young and un-attached I used to sprinkle a few drops of Hoppes on my Stanfields and head for the bar on a Friday night....would you believe I couldn't fight the girls off....WOW..aphrodesiac you say ??? :D
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Jesus, I can just imagine the kinda chicks you were picking up, smelling like that. 5'3", 250 lbs with hairy armpits and a moustache. Leaning up against the wall, looking like she's holding up the building...:D :D
 
Wipe-out is no replacement for a good powder and copper solvent. I just had a older Button-rifled barrel that I have cleaned with wipe-out for the last year that started to lose accuracy and I figured it was toast. It "cleaned" fine in a couple of patches and I was always impressed... When I went to have it re-chambered, scoping the barrel revealed terrible carbon fouling against the rifling and the throat was not eroded to the point where it needed setting back.

An evening with carb cleaner and a bronze brush and the barrel is back to normal.

My wipe-out regime was to let it sit in the bore (plugged at each end with bore mops) for 4-hours, or even overnight.

I have 3/4 of a can here if anyone wants it for free.
 
Household ammonia (10%), Ed's Red, and G96.

Krieger's recommendations include not letting the jag fully exit the barrel in order to prevent the rod from making contact. Pulling a dirty patch back through seems like a bad idea, and in doing this, would the barrel ever be completely clean?
 
I use Wipeout in my guns but I like to take the top layer of crud out of the barrel with some Hoppes Elite before I let the wipeout soak.

Most of my guns will come clean after 1 (sometimes 2) overnight soaks with wipeout. I do have a couple problematic guns that take a few more treatments.

CR-10 works really good (but smells really bad). I usued to use it in my barrels after shooting the Barnes TSX bullets.
Now that I've switched to Accubonds and Ballistic tips, copper hasnt really been an issue.
 
I seem to have good luck with an old AL curtain rod and some #00 steel wool. you wrap the steel wool around on end of the curtain rod, be sure to secure it with some bailing or lockwire, then put the other end in your hammer drill. stuff in the barrel and set it to a high RPM while moving it back and forth the full length of the bore. I usually take this time to dump in some CR-10, about half a bottle, but if I can't find that vinigar or left over battery acid works well.

I keep going until I've finished at least 2 beers. then I take everything out and wash out all the muck with the garden hose. be sure to spray some WD-40 down the pipe after you're done rinsing. makes your bullets go faster for the next few shots.
 
Gunslick foaming bore cleaner... Quick and easy and really cleans all the crap out. I use it every 700 rounds or so and just run dry patches and oil-lubricated ones in between.
 
Scary to hear the Wipeout isn't doing it's job, and I leave it in overnight too. Any comments on Sweets?
 
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