is it me or are slugs notoriously filthy to shoot? ive been out twice, first time i only put about 15 through, barrel was real dirty. last time i put about 60 through it and it was a disaster. must have run about 40 patches through it, soaked it in hot soapy water for a half hour, scrubbed it, etc, it was just throwing out dirty patch after dirty patch. i was using some crudcutter spray stuff from crappy tire, #### that stinks. luckily im all out now and i bought some new stuff, i wanna say something like clp9 or something along those lines. used it on my r700 and not sure i like the oil and cleaner in one properties it has but it may work better than the last stuff.
cleaning after slugs
- Thread starter uchi
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power drill sounds like a good idea, i could mounted my short cleaning rod to the chuck throw on a big copper brush spray some clp in there and give her a go. thanks for the tips ill let you know how it works out next time i clean it
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- London, Ontario
What cleaner is that?
Not so lucky with My Nova. Put ten slugs, and 2 boxes of Skeet through mine last weekend, and It took quite a few patches.
You can clean a smooth bore shotgun barrel? Lol. I will clean mine eventually but, I have at least 400 rounds of birdshot, 50 rounds 00 Buck, and 100 rounds rifled slugs through my 870 Marine Magnum and I can still hit a 12 inch plate at 100 meters. Don't see the point in cleaning a cylinder bore very often. I have better ways to spend my time. Like cleaning all the rifled firearms I have. lol.
That was my thought...
I have a Lakefield pump that has had 2 generations in my family use VERY regularly. I think NASA would have to be enlisted to calculate the round count, and I don't think it's ever seen more than an occasional exterior wipe with oil.
All the power to ya. I enjoy my scatterguns because I CAN shoot them without cleaning.
