help with wipeout/patchout!

[lrgoodger]

A clean patch is NOT an indicator that the barrel is clean. Only loose stuff comes out on a patch. Hardened carbon and copper both will yield a clean patch once the loose stuff has been scrubbed out of the barrel by prior patches. The trick is to get all that junk in the barrel loosened up. Good copper solvents will loosen the copper, but my experience agrees with that of the guys who say that the baked on, hardened carbon cannot be dissolved by any known agent. It takes physical intervention to get that stuff out.

It was only after I got a borescope that I realized this. That does NOT mean you can't get a barrel clean without a borescope. It just means you can't tell for sure if it's clean or not without one, and clean patches certainly won't tell you.

 

[dogdude]

take a look at the label of any bore cleaner, they ALL say to the effect, then push dry patches through bore until they come out clean, BULL***T unless you have a HAWKEYE you will never know(for sure). 12 yrs with a borescope, don't leave home with out it!!!

A clean patch is NOT an indicator that the barrel is clean. Only loose stuff comes out on a patch. Hardened carbon and copper both will yield a clean patch once the loose stuff has been scrubbed out of the barrel by prior patches. The trick is to get all that junk in the barrel loosened up. Good copper solvents will loosen the copper, but my experience agrees with that of the guys who say that the baked on, hardened carbon cannot be dissolved by any known agent. It takes physical intervention to get that stuff out.

It was only after I got a borescope that I realized this. That does NOT mean you can't get a barrel clean without a borescope. It just means you can't tell for sure if it's clean or not without one, and clean patches certainly won't tell you.

 

[jonbearman]

Providing you have disposable income to buy one which is on my own to do list eventually.