Cleaned my 06

[wisconsinteacher]

Well I went back to the store and exchanged the Shooters Choice for the Gunslick Foam. After 30 min of waiting, the first patch did have some blue on it. I ran 5 dry patched down the barrel followed by 5 with some oil on it and there was a little black on it but the last patch was clean.

The part I think that is funny about my reading about cleaners. I did a lot of reading on Midway USA looking at Sweets, Remington Bore Cleaner, and the Gunslick. Each one had great reviews but in my reading, I found that every product had reviews of being better than the other. For years, I have been using Reminton Bore Cleaner and followed the directions to a tee and it always looks clean. After tonight, I think the rifle is clean. When I hold it up to a light and look down the barrel, the barrel looks smooth and the rifeling looks bright.

I hope the rifle is ready to shoot!!!

 

[BK]

What I would do is goop the bore up again, and let it sit for a while, and see if you get any more copper fouling out. I have switched cleaners in some of my more often shot rifles and been a little bit surprised by what came out of a supposedly clean barrel. All are pretty good cleaners... CR10, Sweets, ect.

 

[onesonek]

I agree with BK,,,
More often than not, that first clean dry isn't final. Specially if your oil patch picked up some carbon. I would almost bet the farm, that another soak will pull more out. I would dry patch 3-4 on that oiled bore and hit it again with more solvent.

 

[Guest]

Something I've found with the foams is they tend to dry in the bore as you patch out. Re-wetting the bore (even with something like Hoppe's) will get out copper and carbon. Multiple treatments with foam until the first patch comes out white (but foamy) is the only way to be sure. That's why I like BoreTech. I use three wet patches, let it soak, then follow with a couple of wet patches at 10min and repeat that cycle until the first wet patch comes out looking like it did when it went in. Then I dry patch it to get all the solvent out, and oil the bore. The foam will work, but it takes multiple applications. If you're getting a lot of carbon, remember that it was all laid down in the bore in layers, and it will come out that way. Maybe try some Hoppe's or another carbon solvent in between foam treatments. I've "resurrected" old rifles (like CL mentioned earlier) by cleaning them over a period of days (evenings) and I've seen it take an entire week to get one clean, using cleaning cycles for about 2hrs a night. You'd be amazed what kind of gunk and crud can layer up in a 20 year old 7mmRemMag...

 

[OU812]

Not trying to tell you what to use but this is what I use and it works great. First I use shooter choice to remove the powder residue followed by wipe-out foam to remove the copper. Get ya some wipe-out, fill the barrel and tilt the gun slightly down at the muzzle and walk away. It's not fast but you'll be surprised at the blue color (copper) that is dripping from the muzzle. Patch the wipe-out from the barrel and reapply if you feel it's needed. The stuff works.

Bill

 

[efw]

WT,

As others suggested you want to let that gunslick foam sit in the bore a lot longer than that. I stand the rifle on its muzzle and let the funk all dribble out. After as much shooting as has been done w/ that rifle w/out copper cleaner, you'll likely have to do this several times. I rest the muzzle on a white cloth; typically a funktified undershirt.

I betcha a can of good bore cleaner that you'll do this several times w/ a big almost neon blue spot on the undershirt each time. Once I have no blue dropping out you're done.

I don't worry about carbon clearner the first few times. The Gunslick is supposed to be an all-around bore cleaner. I swab out the bore w/ a dry patch until I am getting almost no blue residue, then I soak a patch w/ brake cleaner to really clean that bore to bare metal and ensure all the old crud is gone, then I do one more application. Typically this will come out clear and I'm done.

With your rifle, because it has so much build up, you might want to do what I described above and then hit it w/ JB Bore Paste for a few applications, then clean that out w/ a brakecleaner-soaked patch, then run another application of foam. You may have layers of carbon & copper fouling over one another.

This will get you down to bare metal, then you're really good to go.

That Gunslick works great, but it takes a bit of time. I'll leave mine for a couple of hours at least, many times overnight.

Good luck!