How to clean a barrel quickly?

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My cleaning routine was naive, I would saturate clean patch with universal bore cleanier and then run hoppe's brush up and down 20-30 times, run a clean patch which would come out real dirty and then another clean patch which would come out clean and I was done with cleaning. After shooting close to 1000 rounds through my Ruger P94 i noticed that barrel has become dark, of course I attributed this to my cleaning technique.
Around this time I started shooting Beretta M9 and I wouldn't make same mistake as with P94 so I changed my cleaning routine: saturate cleaning patch with Shooter's Choice universal cleaning solvent and let it stay for 10 min. then I would run the brush up to 50 times then run a clean patch and keep repeating this process until copper residue of a bullet's jacket starts appearing on the pach. At this point I would switch to Shooters Choice Copper remover and again saturate clean patch with this solvent run it through the bore let it stay there for 10 to 15 min. and then run the brush again 25-30 times. Once very small amount of copper residue is removed by the clean patch I would stop cleaning and usualy over an hour would've pased.
After cleaning, brush is useless for another cleaning . This way even cleaning is expensive as I have to buy new brush every other cleaning. Worst of all is that it takes me 1 to 1.5 hours to clean the barrel. I am keeping Beretta's barrel like new, it is not dirty but Ruger's is pretty dark. I Would like to restore it to that new stainless steel look but I don't know how?

So how do you guys klean your pipes like new, what cleaning equipment brand do you use?

Thanks.
 
I use Smith and Wesson bore gel. I fill the bore with it, clean the rest of the gun for 10 mins. Then run a brush through about 10-15 times. Run a dry patch through, then a few oiled patches. Usually cleans it up real fast.
 
How often are you cleaning? Seriously, by 1000 rounds with most pistols, you'd maybe be at your third cleaning at most. Maybe I'm spoiled with my glock, but I hardly ever clean it. And it doesn't take more then 10 minutes, 30 if I'm using the bore foam, and 20 of that is just waiting, not actually doing anything. I use bore foam, then use a brush, then patches, 10 minutes of actual work. If it takes that long to get it clean, you're either being too anal, or you're doing it wrong.
 
i use a foaming bore cleaner and patches only, gets my bores clean and dont have to use a brush on them. spray it in, leave for 15 while i clean and oil the rest of the gun, run a few patches through, run a lightly oiled patch through, done

i clean every 500-1000 rounds in my sig, depends how often im shooting and how much spare time i have on my hands
 
+1 for boresnake.
I put a couple drops of solvent on the front brush, a couple of drops of gun oil on the back brush and run the boresnake through 2-3 times.
BLING! :)
 
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Boresnake frequently, same thing: solvent in front, oil in the back. Every now and then I manually clean inside the guns. Only after about 2000 rds do I do a thorough brush/solvent type of clean. The boresnake is like preventative maintenance. Takes 5 seconds.
 
Boresnake kicks ass but you NEVER throw something with that much lead residue into your washing machine. You may end up with lead contamination on your clothing. Wash it seperately.
 
I clean a gun after every range sassion. Classic rule for cleaning the bore is to saturate patch with bore cleaner, run a brush 15 to 20 times and then run a clean patch and keep repeating this process until clean patch taht is run after brush doesn't come out clean. I never got this clean patch to come out clean, it is allways at least little dirty.
I used Hoppe's Elite cleaner let it stay for 5-10 min. but I didn't find it any diffrent from ordinary universal bore cleaner.
 
After cleaning, brush is useless for another cleaning . This way even cleaning is expensive as I have to buy new brush every other cleaning. Worst of all is that it takes me 1 to 1.5 hours to clean the barrel. I am keeping Beretta's barrel like new, it is not dirty but Ruger's is pretty dark. I Would like to restore it to that new stainless steel look but I don't know how?
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You are wearing out a barrel brush every second cleaning, and taking more than an hour to clean the barrel, all because you want "that new stainless steel look"? Have you considered that you are doing more damage to the barrel by doing that than if you didn't clean it at all? That you are probably doing the equivalent of firing several thousand rounds worth of damage each time you wear out a brush? And that after you fire ten rounds it's back to that dirty state anyway?

Sorry, but your poor gun.
 
wow seems like everyone in this thread cleans the barrel a lot more than I do, all I shoot is FMJ though, but still...

I nylon brush it a couple times (although I have one of those stainless steel torpedos, I feel like Im damaging things when I use it)

then I jam a bore mop in and out of it to pick up the leftovers..... if Im going to let it sit, I'll run an oiled patch through it
 
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