Bore cleaners?

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What are you all using on your stainless barrels? Anyone use Eds Red or Seafoam Engine treatment? With the Eds Red is the Acetone necessary? Will these eat the coating on a coated cleaning rod? Will these clean the copper or are they mainly for the carbon?

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Remington Brite Bore.
Cleans carbon, powder, copper, lead, wad...everything.
 
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I tried Wipe Out foaming cleaner and found that it didn't really clean that well, seemed like a good idea but I didn't like it. Went back to BBS and Sweets, all is good again.
 
You have to leave it in the barrel for quite a long time for it to work well.
I had the same issue, so have ordered some Accelerator to use with it, as it apparently really shortens the process.

Silverback said:
I tried Wipe Out foaming cleaner and found that it didn't really clean that well, seemed like a good idea but I didn't like it. Went back to BBS and Sweets, all is good again.
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Wipe Out with accelerator is about the only thing that will remove copper. It might take several days overnight but it does work, according to my bore scope. I tested it against KG12 and the KG12 is about ten times more effective but unless you have a bore scope you don't know when the copper is out, Wipe Out turns green with copper so no green means no copper left in the barrel. I also use Butches after the Wipe Out it gives me good sighters. I don't use brushes in match barrels. Many tests have been done with all these about removing copper. Everything mentioned except Wipe Out and KG12 do virtually nothing to remove copper no matter how green they turn. The best preservative again referencing many tests is Eezox. Scrubbing the rifling out of your barrel is not the best way to clean it, assuming it really needs to be cleaned. Most of us way over clean.
 
Clean patch, then JB, then Stainless bore brush, then clean patches til they come out white, then one lightly oiled patch, then one dry clean patch.
 
Foaming bore cleaner, rum and a splash of coke. The rum and coke is used to fill in some time between putting the foaming bore cleaner in the bore and patching it out.

I don't clean that often, maybe twice during the whole shooting season between May and Oct and then only when the groups open up.

After letting the foaming bore cleaner do it's job, I will run a patch of Sweet's 7.62 down the bore to see it there is any traces of copper still in the barrel.
 
Deerdr said:
Clean patch, then JB, then Stainless bore brush, then clean patches til they come out white, then one lightly oiled patch, then one dry clean patch.
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The absolute best way to destroy a barrel is to use a stainless steel brush. You can do it even quicker by spinning it on an electric drill. gone in 60 seconds.
 
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