Hard carbon removing, help!

[Steve Donlon]

I'm sure you would have. Being on this forum for years we try to encourage shooters to use the archives. I'm not frustrated at all, on the contrary a thread like this is usually good for at least 7 pages. I'm just amazed at how little shooters actually know about cleaning a barrel properly. These threads are actually good for them to learn......but so are the Archives, you should try them sometime.

You never know, maybe there will be a better way someday. Besides, I need to read something 2 or 3 times for it to sinks in.

 

[Bora72]

I use a Delrin jag from PMA tool and just push patches through.

How do you get the patch to move back and forth without it coming off the muzzle or getting lost in the throat?

 

[gmr4]

How do you get the patch to move back and forth without it coming off the muzzle or getting lost in the throat?

I just push patches through

 

[Kracken McGraw]

I see 17 forums here but no archive.
Location please? Thanks

You use the Search button to look up titles of the old threads that you want to research.

 

[gmr4]

You use the Search button to look up titles of the old threads that you want to research.

Hmmmm… thats actually hilarious!

 

[wright brothers]

Thanks, I was thinking of an actual archive sub forum where the bogus content is edited. Stupid me lol.
I do use and like the search a lot

 

[Kracken McGraw]

Thanks, I was thinking of an actual archive sub forum where the bogus content is edited. Stupid me lol.
I do use and like the search a lot

No stupid questions here, that’s the only way to move forward.

 

[Bora72]

I just push patches through

Yes, I pass it through too
I use this type of jag, and I have to be very careful to keep the patch on it, otherwise when it exits the muzzle or throat, the patch will come loose from the jag.
I'm not kidding, it's just that you need to have a cleaning rod with markings so as not to ruin the cleaning action.

 

[gmr4]

Yes, I pass it through too
I use this type of jag, and I have to be very careful to keep the patch on it, otherwise when it exits the muzzle or throat, the patch will come loose from the jag.
I'm not kidding, it's just that you need to have a cleaning rod with markings so as not to ruin the cleaning action.

I have Parker Hale style jags that allow for back and forth with a patch but only use them with abrasives. I dont use abrasives much anymore. I pass all patches straight through with a Delrin Jag from PMA tool.

 

[jpjulian]

Yep! I use Free All, which has MIBK, and seems to keep the carbon ring down to a stain. It also has oleic acid, which I get out with Patch Out. Pic is at 982 rounds.

Free-All stinks to holy hell. But it seems to work ok....

 

[jpjulian]

Whatever happened to GM Top Engine cleaner? I don't think there was ever anything better for removing carbon without abrasives.

 

[Bora72]

I have Parker Hale style jags that allow for back and forth with a patch but only use them with abrasives. I dont use abrasives much anymore. I pass all patches straight through with a Delrin Jag from PMA tool.

Ok for the jag style, thanks

 

[old_heli_logger]

Whatever happened to GM Top Engine cleaner? I don't think there was ever anything better for removing carbon without abrasives.

I tried for a while; it didn't do much for me or the carbon. Did you have better results?
Thanks!