Wipe-out Patch out

...why are you so worried/so aggressively cleaning the barrel after only 50 rounds?! ...I do 2-3 wet patches after shooting it followed by a dry one and a general wipe down before they go away. Maybe once a year if I shoot it lots will I scrub and clean clean the barrel.
 
hannibal.black98 said:
...why are you so worried/so aggressively cleaning the barrel after only 50 rounds?! ...I do 2-3 wet patches after shooting it followed by a dry one and a general wipe down before they go away. Maybe once a year if I shoot it lots will I scrub and clean clean the barrel.
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Groups were opening up and I’m about to start load development with Partitions.
 
I used the foam version on my Ar-15 barrel last night. For some reason, the first time I pushed a patch through, after only a brief soak, it pushed blue foam out the muzzle. I cleaned the barrel thoroughly, then let it soak again overnight. This morning when I pushed a patch through, only a small spot on one side of the patch showed any blue. I did however keep getting a bit of black with every patch I pushed through. I tried both patch over nylon brush and patch pushed by a jag. Always a little black. Maybe its coming from the chamber, but before I started it all, I flushed the chamber and barrel with brake parts cleaner and used a chamber brush.

Where did all the blue come from initially? Where did the tiny bit of blue come from this morning?

Am I done?
 
Grizzlypeg said:
I used the foam version on my Ar-15 barrel last night. For some reason, the first time I pushed a patch through, after only a brief soak, it pushed blue foam out the muzzle. I cleaned the barrel thoroughly, then let it soak again overnight. This morning when I pushed a patch through, only a small spot on one side of the patch showed any blue. I did however keep getting a bit of black with every patch I pushed through. I tried both patch over nylon brush and patch pushed by a jag. Always a little black. Maybe its coming from the chamber, but before I started it all, I flushed the chamber and barrel with brake parts cleaner and used a chamber brush.

Where did all the blue come from initially? Where did the tiny bit of blue come from this morning?

Am I done?
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The blue is the reaction with the copper fouling in your barrel.
 
Should I do another overnight soak? I only got out a tiny bit of blue after the overnight soak. 99.99% came out right away. Almost too easily. The tiny bit I got in the morning was miniscule. Maybe it came from the gas port. A second patch showed nothing further, but continued tiny amounts of black. Will the loosened copper continue to show up on a dry patch after the initial dry patch?
 
You dont have to worry about copper with wipeout it will be gone when before you are done with the carbon. Now you need to see what carbon a bronze bore brush will turn up j
 
With Wipe Out if I have a lot of copper fouling I wrap a patch around a undersized brush and soak it with wipe out....then run it in and out of the bore 40 times, the patch will be deep blue. let stand a couple hours, dry patch and repeat until clean
 
I was wondering how to get enough Patch out to stick to a brush. Its pretty thin, and wets the brush, but that doesn't result in a great deal of it being distributed into the barrel. So wrap a patch and soak the patch?
 
Grizzlypeg said:
I was wondering how to get enough Patch out to stick to a brush. Its pretty thin, and wets the brush, but that doesn't result in a great deal of it being distributed into the barrel. So wrap a patch and soak the patch?
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Yes, thats the way I found works the best but use an undersized brush so the patch wrapped around the brush is not a tight fit in the bore.
 
hawk-i said:
With Wipe Out if I have a lot of copper fouling I wrap a patch around a undersized brush and soak it with wipe out....then run it in and out of the bore 40 times, the patch will be deep blue. let stand a couple hours, dry patch and repeat until clean
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What type of brush?
 
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