Bore polishing .....WOW!

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Chilly Willy

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Every year about this time I pull my 12's out of the safe and give them a real deep cleaning and attempt to get those bore's looking like mirrors in prep for the upcoming turkey season. Last year it was a whole lot of elbow grease and sabot cleaner and I ran that jag like a mad man and did okay in getting the tube clean. Well this year I came across JB Bore Compound and Bore Brite at Williams Arms and snagged a jar. BEST $12 I EVER SPENT!!!! I made sure I had done a good cleaning with solvents and then had at her with the Bore Brite and a patch over the 12G jag. Must have made over 100 passes. Well out came lead from parker style slugs....plastic from turkey shot wads....and more carbon fouling. Finished up the Bore Brite and ran about four more patches with light oil to remove excess polish and protect the bore against any moisture during it's winter sit. The bore now is a mirror finish that I'm sure will pattern even better than last year:eek: Those turkeys are in a heep of trouble:runaway:
 
Shiny Bore

Congrats on discovering J B bore paste !
Been using it fer years on centrefires - takes ALL the copper out and improves accuracy due to the resulting smooth polished bore with repeated usage. Just make sure you wash it all ouy before you shoot. I use Kroil for that - Birchwood Casey Sheath would work also.
Have an HB .223 that I broke in with J B - shot bench rest competitive groups for years with it - now with at least 10,000 rds through it it still shoots under an inch. - So much for the untrue allegation that J B wears out a bore - Just ask the ohio bench rest shooters - and Camp Perry shooters.
 
JB and Flitz

Both JB and Flitz are abrasive polishes with Flitz being just slightly more aggressive than JB.

They are abrasive but they are so fine that removal of any measurable amount of steel would take a lot of work.

I have used Flitz to polish chambers on revolvers and also to polish reloading dies, (Lee steel dies) and it works quite well.

I haven't yet, but would certainly use JB to clean/polish a shotgun bore.
 
Flitz

SandRoad said:
JB and Flitz

Both JB and Flitz are abrasive polishes with Flitz being just slightly more aggressive than JB.

They are abrasive but they are so fine that removal of any measurable amount of steel would take a lot of work.

I have used Flitz to polish chambers on revolvers and also to polish reloading dies, (Lee steel dies) and it works quite well.

I haven't yet, but would certainly use JB to clean/polish a shotgun bore.
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Flitz is excellent for removing the accuracy destroying ring of lead at the end of .22 rimfire chambers just before the lands and grooves -
 
chopper 1 said:
Just make sure you wash it all ouy before you shoot.
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what do ya mean?

if i use something abbrasive in the bore, i would run a few patches with gun solvent afterward (like hoppes 9). then, i will run another few patches with gun oil for storage.

the next time i go to the range, and just before my shooting session begins at the range, i would run a few dry patches down the bore to clean up the oil.

am i doing okay? or is it really necessary to use kroil, etc?
 
wash out

You just want to make sure you get all the abrasive out before you shoot - Kroil is the easiest to use because of its viscosity characteristics - it creeps EVERYWHERE ! no missed spots. If you cant get kroil , birchwood caseys sheath has similar characteristics .Regular gun oil is to thick and slow.
 
Save your money and buy a .22 inch wooden dowel, 0000 steel wool lubed with a few drops wd40.Notch the dowel on one end and put the other end into a electric drill.Wrap the steel wool on the end of dowel so it sticks and run the thing up and down the barrel for about 15 minutes.It made my 30 year old shotgun barrel gleam like a mirror.I learned this trick from a gunsmith.Works like a charm.
 
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