Anybody ever tried this stuff - Flitz Gun Cleaner?

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I've used regular paste (in a tube) Flitz in the past, on Chrome and polished metal. It works very well.

A buddy in the U.S. told me that they had a gun cleaner, which he's used. He swore on the Bible that he was seeing it remove copper, lead and all the other residues from the barrel and chamber.

I've never seen it here in Canada, but I did hit their website and found the product, no ammonia, etc. according to the propoganda - flitz dot com/flitz-bore-cleaner/

I wouldn't mind trying some - anybody know who might carry it?:confused:

Thanks,

O.N.G.
 
Yup, saw the "free shipping". Frankly, I as just as interested in finding out if anyone else had ever used it/tried it as well (I've bought enough "snake oil" in my time, so at my ripe old age I generally look for other feedback before voluntarily donating to another possible snake oil salesman).

O.N.G.
 
The two I've seen mentioned for use for gun cleaning are the paste in the tube and the liquid polish.

It does work well from what I've read. But it is also a fine abrasive. That's what gives stainless guns their glossy looking shine after using it a lot that folks seem to love. But being a fine abrasive it also wears down the finish on a blued gun. Here and there a few years apart and you'll never live long enough to notice. But if you use it a few times per year you'll soon find the bluing is wearing off on the sharp edges of the blued parts. And since I really like my blued guns I won't have it in the house at all.
 
I've used it. As a bore cleaner only. Yes it has a very fine and soft abrasive in the mix. I don't find it any better than Motty's Bore Paste or JB bore paste. I'm willing to bet they all use the same or similar abrasive. I only use such cleaners when there is a very stubborn fouling problem.

I prefer Wipe Out over all of them as a general purpose cleaner for most issues. I have observed people using Wipe Out and they don't do use it properly. The spray it in the bore and very shortly thereafter they run a patch down the bore and push it out before it's finished doing its job. Sometimes, I will use two applications of WO. Push the first batch out after letting it work for an hour or more and if there is still fouling in the bore then one more soaking, I prefer the liquid over the aerosol can, and leave it in there for a couple more hours and if the fouling is from Nosler or Barne's bullets, then it's in there overnight.

Most rifles don't shoot well from a cleaned to the steel bore. The abrasive bore cleaners take it right down to the steel and so will WO with two applications. WO just takes a bit more patience but a lot less work.
 
I've used JB bore paste, some say Flitz is slightly coarser. Will this be for centerfire or rimfire? It certainly does make short work of removing all fouling, it is best used for removing the carbon ring in the chamber. It shouldn't be used to clean fouling out of match grade barrels as you don't want to polish the lapped finish the barrel maker already put in for you.
 
Thanks for the feedback. It's appreciated. To the last post by Rabid, my basic thought was to use it on an "as-rarely-needed" case for really stubborn fouling, especially in the micro-groove rifling on my Marlin 444, which I've found is a little tough to keep clean. I have used other cleaners (Butch's Bore Shine, etc.), some of them are pretty stringent, at least to the respiratory system.

I would possibly also use it in the cylinder of my .357 revolver after a run of .38 Spl, to get rid of that darned baked on carbon ring.

I primarily use Ed's Red for normal bore/barrel cleaning, it has done a good job for powder residue with the possible exception of the revolver, but for metal fouling - not so much.

O.N.G.
 
The Flitz Bore Cleaner works well, I have been using it for a year or so. It is a light green in colour.
It is a bit more of a liquid then JB or Iosso pastes, but works well on the hard carbon and copper build ups in a barrel.
I only use it at the end of a day of shooting and after a normal cleaning routine.
There is few folks that carry it in Canada.
 
For the crud ring an often suggested option for those of us that reload is to make up a flared casing with a sharpened edge adn use it as a scraper for removing that ring. What little is left is then fairly easily cleaned away. I made up such a casing one time and found that it did indeed work as promised. But it was hard to make the brass hold the right size. I'd clean one or one and a half cylinders then it would need to have the sharp edge dressed and flared again. In the end my go to option is a .40 cal bore brush on a short cleaning rod extension in my hand drill and some bore solvent.
 
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