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I hope someone can help me out with this. I've been shooting for longer than I care to admit but I have yet to find out the proper way to clean a barrel after shooting corrosive ammo. I've been swabbing the barrels with patches soaked in Windex followed by brushes, then more Windex soaked patches followed by solvent based cleaning. Is this correct? Is there a better method? Any help would be appreciated.:wave:
 
Colt1911A1 said:
I hope someone can help me out with this. I've been shooting for longer than I care to admit but I have yet to find out the proper way to clean a barrel after shooting corrosive ammo. I've been swabbing the barrels with patches soaked in Windex followed by brushes, then more Windex soaked patches followed by solvent based cleaning. Is this correct? Is there a better method? Any help would be appreciated.:wave:
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If you dont have rust, mean that your method work good.:) Every shooters have their own method. As a note, the windex work because of the water in it, not because ammonia, ammonia do nothing against the salts. Ammonia is supposed to clean metal fouling but i dont know if the typical windex have enough ammonia in to be effective. Personally, i use boiling water, dry patch, solvent and slightly oiled patch to finish. If i didnt shoot a lot, i dont use solvent, only oiled patch. I used solvent if i shoot more than 100 rds.

Jocelyn
 
I use clp and nothing else

Ive run 3K of corrosive ammo thru my 1919 in one day and i took it home stripped it tossed it all in my laundry tun and sprayed it down with clp left it over night cleaned it as normal next day

my barrels look as new still same with bolt
 
CLP is the CF name for

a product maketed by break free. stands for Cleans Lubricates Protects. It draws carbon fouling out of metal if left on. With CLP you need to shake it up before you use it to get the particles suspended in the solution. It works well and the smell reminds me of the old days. I liked it better when I got it for free though.
 
Personally, you can try my product, Gunzilla BC-10. It's a non-toxic, plant based environmentally friendly cleaning, protecting and lubricating package all in one convinient container! I ship all across Canada. PM me if you are interested. It is extremely good at removing corrosive salts, from corrosive priming and black powder, while getting it on your hands will not cause liver damage, unlike some CLP's (I name no names).
 
I've used the boiling water and Windex method. Both work equally well, and are very cheap.:D Follow up with normal cleaning procedures afterwards with whatever you normally use, but I also prefer CLP.
 
Boil up a kettle of water. Insert small plastic funnel in breech, point down bathtub drain and empty kettle. Let residual heat dry barrel and follow with normal cleaning, oiling.
Rinse bolt with hot water.
 
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Canadian armourers funnel in the arse end, kettle full of boiling water and then clean with your favourite bug juice. Worked for the Brits for almost a hundred years.
Every barrel has microscopic cracks. The primer salts are driven into those cracks. The hot water expands the cracks so the salts are washed out. The ammonia in windex only works on the copper fouling, NOT the salts.
 
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