Your Favorite Bore cleaners...

[Jet]

I have tested just about every product made for gun/bore cleaning and have yet to find a magical product that removes carbon/copper easily. There are certainly many good products and many not so good. Bottom line is what Alex says. Bronze brush with Iosso will get your barrel clean.

Good Shooting

Rich

 

[sundance]

I recently bought a container of Montana extreme . I opened the cap and sniffed it. If it cleans barrels as good as it cleaned my sinuses I will be pleased!

 

[eric32]

i started using nothing but Corrosion X, it seems to penetrate all the carbon and copper.

Left it in over night and the carbon turned into little beads. i freaked out thought it was rust. patch came out all black and gray with some flakes of metal which i think is copper.

After that seems to do the job.

 

[Shynloco]

They all suck, lol. Just pick one and do not be afraid of bronze brushes and Iosso.

Alex,
Should I be worried about Iosso being too corrosive on the inside of a barrel because of the grit it contains? I use Butch's Bore Shine which seems to do the trick. I've heard it said that you can over clean a barrel. Fact or fiction? Thx!

Alex

 

[yukonal]

I've been using Butches religiously for over 10 years...on over a dozen rifles. I recently purchased, and have been using a Hawkeye borescope. OMG!!!

I am currently trying different cleaners that will get the inside of my barrels...clean.

 

[Alex Wheeler]

Alex,
Should I be worried about Iosso being too corrosive on the inside of a barrel because of the grit it contains? I use Butch's Bore Shine which seems to do the trick. I've heard it said that you can over clean a barrel. Fact or fiction? Thx!

Alex

Iosso is not corrosive at all so far as I know. You dont want carbon to build up in the barrel, ever. Some catridges dont carbon up bad, .308 for example. Some do. With a dasher, Iosso every 50 rounds if using rl15. You dont need to go crazy. Once its clean you stop. No such thing as over cleaning, so long as you stop when its clean. The most accurate rifles in the world are shot clean. Benchrest shooters generally keep their barrels very clean. Now if we are talking a factory barrel, then maybe you would need to leave some fouling in there for top accuracy, thats something you would have to test

 

[Jet]

I've been using Butches religiously for over 10 years...on over a dozen rifles. I recently purchased, and have been using a Hawkeye borescope. OMG!!!

I am currently trying different cleaners that will get the inside of my barrels...clean.

A friend of mine who is a distributor for a big name automotive synthetic lubricant company recently gave me some of their new firearms cleaning and lubrication products to test. The lube worked ok but the cleaner was worthless. I showed him the results of a side by side comparison against dish soap and he was shocked. The dish soap was more effective against carbon than his product was.

IOSSO used to clean copper and stubborn carbon is what I've found works.

Good Shooting

Rich

 

[Shynloco]

Iosso is not corrosive at all so far as I know. You dont want carbon to build up in the barrel, ever. Some catridges dont carbon up bad, .308 for example. Some do. With a dasher, Iosso every 50 rounds if using rl15. You dont need to go crazy. Once its clean you stop. No such thing as over cleaning, so long as you stop when its clean. The most accurate rifles in the world are shot clean. Benchrest shooters generally keep their barrels very clean. Now if we are talking a factory barrel, then maybe you would need to leave some fouling in there for top accuracy, thats something you would have to test

Thx for that! Now is the "Blue Patch" the best indicator of a clean barrel..... free of copper? The carbon is more obvious. Thx again.

Alex

 

[BoydAllen]

When cleaning with solvent, patches and a bronze brush, hard carbon will not show color on a patch. The black you get will be powder fouling. There is some confusion that is caused by referring to powder fouling as carbon. Generally, when shooters recommend the use of IOSSO it is to remove hard carbon, which will not be removed by any solvent. If you do not have a bore scope, you are guessing about the condition of the inside of your barrel. Luckily, Lyman has made knowing a lot less expensive. While the images may not be quite so sharp as those from more expensive scopes, it is quite usable.