i pickjed some of this up the other day but it doenst have any instructions on how to use it. i know its a stupid question but i dont wanna leave it in the gun too long. ive got copper fouling and im not ready to use ammonia just yet. can i just plug the end of the barrel throw this stuff in and give it a day or so and then remove it? how long is too long?
gunslick foaming bore cleaner
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Leave it for an hour, patch it out. Put another shot down the barrel and leave for 2 hrs then patch out.
Don't plug the end of the barrel and use VERY small squirts as it will expand through the bore. I would suggest putting a bore guide in the chamber end so as to not fill your action with the foam.
Repeat 2hrs until no more blue or blue/green color shows on the patches.
Don't plug the end of the barrel and use VERY small squirts as it will expand through the bore. I would suggest putting a bore guide in the chamber end so as to not fill your action with the foam.
Repeat 2hrs until no more blue or blue/green color shows on the patches.
Spray it in from the breach end, put a towel or other over the muzzle and press til it comes out the other end. I leave it in for a good half hour, but for really stubborn copper I'll either do it a few times, cleaning with a patch in between. I have also left it for a couple of hours with no ill effects as well. You'll know when it is getting at the copper, as the foam will start to liquify and run out the muzzle with a blue tint. I always have the muzzle end slighlty lower than the breach (propped up at the buttstock), that way it doesn't run into the magazine or trigger group. Hope this helps.
That reminds me I've got to try and find some more. WSS in Calgary used to have it but the salesmen that sell the guns, must not think people want to clean them. As they don't (as of a week and a half ago) have any solvents at all on the shelf??? I actually asked a guy, and he raced me over to the empty shelf and said "right here", but the 4 foot section of shelf was literally bare...
That reminds me I've got to try and find some more. WSS in Calgary used to have it but the salesmen that sell the guns, must not think people want to clean them. As they don't (as of a week and a half ago) have any solvents at all on the shelf??? I actually asked a guy, and he raced me over to the empty shelf and said "right here", but the 4 foot section of shelf was literally bare...
Yup, and Canadian Tire sells the small bottle for what the large bottle used to cost...
perfect thanks guys. i tried some gel i found locally and let it sit over night twice and it came out with copper in it but still if i look down the bore its got copper. ill try this out this week one night. thanks again, also the gunslick stuff comes with a little tube attached to it that i can shove into the breech and squirt out. how much of this stuff should i shoot in there? just a couple second blast and let it works its way through or fill the barrel with it?
perfect thought so, alright, tonights mission is to play with foam and not have my wife yell at me for cleaning the rifle in our rec room, lets hope this stuff doesnt smell as delicious as some other stuff ive used 
thanks for the help guys
thanks for the help guys
Jordan Smith
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- Calgary, AB
Use small, short blasts. Half a second, at the most. If you hold it down for 2 seconds, you'll likely have 3 feet of foam come squirting out the end. The foam expands a lot, so using small squirts and waiting a few seconds between, is a safer bet.
Leave it 1 hour minimum, as it takes that long to act on the copper and eat its way through to the bore, you can leave it over night and won't wreck anything. It is an okay product, Wipeout is about 15 times better, it works better, requires less applications and wipeout does not leave a sticky film on the firearms like gunslick does. Wipeout also works much superior on carbon in pistons on piston driven ar's. fwiw. Gunslick is not a bad product it works.
thanks guys, this was the only one i saw over at the gun store and it was a name i recognized so i grabbed a bottle of it. im gonna try and get it into the gun tonight at some point. someone had said to leave the gun mostly flat with the butt stock elevated to keep it from pouring into the action, can i leave the gun standing up in a bucket or will this cause it to leak out too fast?
