What's everyones favorite solvent and oil these days?

[k80skeet]

Whether it's a BR gun, varmint or hunting rig, my routine is the same...just the number of brush strokes vary depending on the cartridge and barrel.

Butch's Bore Shine....two sloppy wet patches, then Butch's on a good bronze bristle brush for as few strokes as the barrel needs, remove the bore guide and patch it out, then two tight dry patches followed by Butch's on a wet patch. After a bit, patch out the bore and put a clean patch around a chamber mop to dry the chamber and then clean the lugs. A small line of high pressure tacky grease goes on the lugs, the extracor cam angles and the front of the cocking piece.

For storage, it's Hoppe's #9. It's mild nature works on any little residual stuff in there while doing a great job of protecting the bore.

Occasionally, I'll use a bronze brush one caliber up from the bore size (.338 for a .30, for example) and push it firmly to the end of the neck area of the chamber and give it a few twists to stay ahead of any carbon that wants to start taking up resudence there. Plus, JB at intervals to stay ahead of stuff in the first 8-10 inches of the barrel.

I clean as little as the barrel needs to shoot well. On my 30BR, it gets cleaned after each yardage which is roughly 60 rounds @ 100 and 75-80 @ 200 (warmup, sighters and 25 record shots).

Good shootin' -Al

Al, I just can't find Butch's Bore Shine anywhere. I also agree with how you do it 100%

 

[AlNyhus]

I just picked up some Butch's yesterday from my local gun store.
Before G.M. changed to a 'green' formula, I used G.M. Top Engine Cleaner for years. After the change, you could still get it through Mercury Marine dealers branded as Mercury Quicksilver Top Engine Cleaner. When they changed that to the 'green' G.M. formula, I moved to Butch's.

Although you can still buy G.M. Top Engine Cleaner, it's nowhere near what the original was. The ammoniated salts in the original is what took care of business in a barrel. -Al

 

[Capt. Oblivious]

Good old CLR for Carbon and Sweets for the little bit of copper that's in the barrels, good bronze brush and some VFG cleaning pellets.
Iosso or Autosol for anything that those 2 cant remove, for storage I have been using Fluid Film for many years

 

[k80skeet]

Not to bust the thread but does anybody use Warthog1134? So far I use brake cleaner followed up with JB bore paste for bore prep. and use Type F ATF for oil and high pressure bearing grease for the bolt lugs, camming sufaces and threads.

Yes That Warthog 1134 is super stuff but they won't let them ship it anymore. I sure wish I could find someone who had some they would part with !!!!

 

[gamc]

I haven't done any serious shooting in almost twenty years ,just got back in to it post retirement. Breaks my heart GM no longer has the original Top Engine Cleaner,that and Kroil I used a lot. Hoppes .Montana Extreme & JB's I have always used and still do. I had guns stored for 15 years with the bore coated lightly with Hoppes ended up with no problems with corrosion

 

[6MMsteve]

Good old CLR for Carbon and Sweets for the little bit of copper that's in the barrels, good bronze brush and some VFG cleaning pellets.
Iosso or Autosol for anything that those 2 cant remove, for storage I have been using Fluid Film for many years

Fluid Film is good stuff, great for undercoating cars, I started using it for stored barrels... and Wipeout and ISSO, JB Coppercream CLR, bronze brush

 

[6.5 forever]

C4 does everything I need?