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Hard carbon removing, help!

I start at the neck/leade area and go a few inches in, pull back and increase the depth into the barrel a couple inches with each stroke, finally stopping just short of the crown (I have my cleaning rod marked so it's not a guess) then take 4-5 full length strokes and then finally all the way out. Wet and dry patch, look with the bore scope, repeat if necessary. Also, patch on jag, not on brush with abrasives for me. I will use patch on brush for higher solvent retention, though (Boresmith jag brush).
If your brush is straight and true to the rod and rod properly sized to the bore, you will not harm the crown since only the bristles will contact the crown.
 
With a JB'd patch on a bronze brush, you can easily reverse the brush in the bore. I do it routinely in the first 5-6" of the barrel. You can let it come all the way out the muzzle or not. Both ways work.

For regular cleaning with a bronze brush, you don't want to try to reverse the brush direction when it's in the bore. Ditto the blue Iosso brushes.

Okay, you can't do it with the Iosso brush unless you enter Beast mode!
 
You can't hurt the barrel. JB's abrasive material breaks down fairly quickly in the carrier material...you'll see it change to an oily type appearance as that happens.
The two JB formulas are very different - the Bore Paste is pumice (soft gray porous volcanic rock) and a very mild abrasive, but the Bore Bright is considerably harder and although very fine can do some damage if overused. You definitely want to choose the right one for the job at hand. I only ever use Bore Paste because I keep on top of the cleaning, but I might try Bore shine if I inherited a really dirty barrel.
 
You use to plug the chamber without remove the barrel from the action?
If yes can you expander n Better or make a video please?
Use one of these, close the bolt on it and pour in solvent from the muzzle with the barrel upright.


If you can't get a proper chamber plug, you might be able to use a foam ear plug instead.
 
Use one of these, close the bolt on it and pour in solvent from the muzzle with the barrel upright.


If you can't get a proper chamber plug, you might be able to use a foam ear plug instead.

Hello thanks for the advice on ear plug.

I think that I can find the plug on Brownells store, I think that the 308 family (30-06 , 6,5 Creed , 243,..) can make a goog job.

What do you think if I plug on the muzzle one leg chair plug and full througth the chamber for prevent any infiltration of solvents into the action?
 
The two JB formulas are very different - the Bore Paste is pumice (soft gray porous volcanic rock) and a very mild abrasive, but the Bore Bright is considerably harder and although very fine can do some damage if overused. You definitely want to choose the right one for the job at hand. I only ever use Bore Paste because I keep on top of the cleaning, but I might try Bore shine if I inherited a really dirty barrel.
Yes...Bore  Paste is what you want to use for carbon removal.
 
I have a question that might seem shocking or obvious to many, but I'm asking anyway because I have some doubts...

Can a sequence of 25 or 30 shots fired a minute or less apart accentuate or even cause stubborn, difficult-to-remove carbon buildup?
 
Can a sequence of 25 or 30 shots fired a minute or less apart accentuate or even cause stubborn, difficult-to-remove carbon buildup?
My days of rapid fire XTC are past, now everything is slow fire, so to speak. Carbon always showed up, to say that your firing sequence can help minimize carbon buildup up, maybe I guess, but, rapid fire will certainly not do the throat any good and to boot, probably does add more pre-diamond hard carbon to the mix. Want to shorten a barrel’s life, mag dump as a routine will keep Kreiger, Brux and Bartlein very happy. Layer upon layer of carbon over time is not fun to remove.
 
My days of rapid fire XTC are past, now everything is slow fire, so to speak. Carbon always showed up, to say that your firing sequence can help minimize carbon buildup up, maybe I guess, but, rapid fire will certainly not do the throat any good and to boot, probably does add more pre-diamond hard carbon to the mix. Want to shorten a barrel’s life, mag dump as a routine will keep Kreiger, Brux and Bartlein very happy. Layer upon layer of carbon over time is not fun to remove.

Thanks for your contribution!

Some time the time for the string a the range are much lesser than the necessary...
 
Hello thanks for the advice on ear plug.

I think that I can find the plug on Brownells store, I think that the 308 family (30-06 , 6,5 Creed , 243,..) can make a goog job.

What do you think if I plug on the muzzle one leg chair plug and full througth the chamber for prevent any infiltration of solvents into the action?
If you can order the correct size chamber plug I recommend you do that and just wait a few days for delivery. It will make life easier.
 
Hello thanks for the advice on ear plug.

I think that I can find the plug on Brownells store, I think that the 308 family (30-06 , 6,5 Creed , 243,..) can make a goog job.

What do you think if I plug on the muzzle one leg chair plug and full througth the chamber for prevent any infiltration of
When I soak my barrels I now use the Sinclair chamber plug. When I first did this filling from the chamber I use to put a tight fitting ballon over the muzzle and use black electric tape wrapped real tight to hold it in place. I always placed a container under the muzzle. This also worked good. JMW
 

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