Newbie shotgun cleaning questions

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Hello everyone,

Well I just got my first shotgun in the mail today. :dancingbanana: It's a Mossberg 500. I have ran about 30 or more patches in each barrel (came with a 28 for trapp and 18 for slugs), yet they still come out brown. the first few were black, but now it's just brown. Do I just keep running more cleaning patches until they come out white or is this normal for a Mossberg?

It doesn't say much about it in the manual, but cleaning the rest of the shot gun was pretty straight forward.

Second question: I assuming it's fine to leave the inside of the barrel dry if I plan to shoot out of both barrels within the next week, or should I just oil them up and dry them out before I go shooting?

Thanks in advance.
 
Buy yourself a boresnake and it should take a grand total of one pass with it. If you don't like the idea of a boresnake (some don't). Put some Hoppes 9 solvent on your patch and slide it up and down a couple of times. Then put the dry ones down until they are clean.

As for the oiling, usually I leave a thin layer if I'm not shooting the gun for more than a month. A week is nothing.
 
Greenhorse six said:
are you using a brass bore brush and some solvent first to losen up the fouling?
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Didn't use the brass bore brush as the manual said to use it only to remove tough grease... I guess this is "tough" factory grease. I will clean it again tomorrow and pick up a bore snake as the rod is a pain and I already lifted a thumb nail when the end of the barrel (that connects to receiver) hit the thumb. ha ha.

thanks for the help.

edit: i think i didnt use the brush because the barrels were not rifled... guess i was wrong.
 
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I clean my shotguns with a Hoppes#9 soaked mop for shotguns, let it sit for a few minutes, pull the bore snake through 3x per barrel.

Usually comes out like a mirror. I don't have plastic buildup issues that some have.
 
Clean with solvent and brush, oiled patches, then dry patch. I wad up a kleenex tightly and put the patch around that before pushing it through. Good to go.
 
I soak the bore with some varsol for 15 mins if it's real dirty. I also just use "patches" made with old socks and pj. I can cut bigger pieces out and get a real tight fit. Most new guns will be dirty like that. Took a week to clean my bps out when I first got it.
 
My routine after the range is to spray a couple of squirts of Rem. Oil from an aerosol can into the chamber and run the bore snake through four times and all is ready to go for next time. Every three months I do the rod and solvent thing. has worked for me for years.
 
thanks for the replies. i used the brass brush a few times this morning and another 20 or so patches through each barrel. not as much as before, but a friend emailed me saying that brown stuff is normal from factory and goes away after shooting it for a bit. he said it takes heat to really remove that stuff.
 
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