Holy cats there is gunk in there.

[wisconsinteacher]

Well, today I kept working on the 06. Yesterday it got a foam treatment then I took Remingtion Bore Cleaner to it and things were looking clean. Today I started with foam for 2 hours and had some blue so I pushed a few clean patches through it and foamed it for 2 more hours. After that, there was very little blue so I hit it with the Bore Cleaner. I would soak a patch and brush it up and down 20 times and it would come out black and full of gunk. Following the Bore Cleaner, I pushed 2 dry patches and then did the Bore Cleaner again. I did this 5 differerent times. I plan on foaming it again in the morning and and doing it again. When I look down the barrel, it is very bright, but patches will not come out clean yet.

 

[DrMike]

There can be a lot of build up over the course of a lifetime of firing a rifle. Sounds as if you are beginning to get close to a clean barrel, however.

 

[cloverleaf]

Cerazy aint it? We always figured Dad kept a clean rifle and then one day the o'le 7mag just would not shoot at all any more. Dads ready to hang it up, says hes getting too old to re-barrel a rifle..... :shock: :x :roll: . I says, well if you are at that point try some "wipe out"? What have you got to loose. Started out just like you except we would leave the foam over night, per instructions. After the 7-8 time we finally quit getting Carbon out of it. Dont know if ithelped his groups but that sucker was filthy! CL

 

[BK]

Cerazy aint it? We always figured Dad kept a clean rifle and then one day the o'le 7mag just would not shoot at all any more. Dads ready to hang it up, says hes getting too old to re-barrel a rifle..... :shock: :x :roll: . I says, well if you are at that point try some "wipe out"? What have you got to loose. Started out just like you except we would leave the foam over night, per instructions. After the 7-8 time we finally quit getting Carbon out of it. Dont know if ithelped his groups but that sucker was filthy! CL

Dang, CL, you should have just offered to take it off his hands! :mrgreen:

 

[boomer68]

I have run into the same when cleaning some newly acquired rifles. It seems to take forever to get rid of the blackish gunk.

 

[JD338]

WT

There is clean and then there is clean.
Keep at it, you are on the right track.

JD338

 

[SJB358]

WT

There is clean and then there is clean.
Keep at it, you are on the right track.

JD338

I'm of the school of thought that you can't have a rifle barrel too clean. As long as your aren't using abrasives a clean bore fouls less and takes less work to clean up. Scotty

 

[gerry]

Had the same thing a couple of years back with the Whelen, cleaned it on a regular basis but the accuracy got worse and wouldn't do much better than 2" groups. Someone suggested JB bore paste so it was tried also switched to a foaming bore cleaner and that did the trick the accuracy came back. It looked clean but obviously wasn't at that point I had owned it 8 or 9 years and had probably 1500+ rounds down the tube.

 

[wisconsinteacher]

Well I foamed the barrel for 3 hours and there was a very small hint of blue on one spot of the patch. I then went back to the Remingtion Bore Cleaner. I soaked the patch with it and went up and down the barrel 20 times followed by a patch with Rem Oil for 20 times up and down. I did this 10 times and the last patch looks like the first. When I removed the foam, there was also very little black on it. I am starting to wonder where the black is coming from when using the Remington products. I am taking a short break and then I am going to do the Remington rotation 10 more times.

 

[cloverleaf]

Could be. I was all distraught when my patches kept coming out rust colored until I ralized that the Break free CLP I was using was a good portion of that tint. I gave it a couple shots of "Bore Scrubber" and few more patches. They came out as white as I have patience for. CL

 

[boomer68]

It's all a conspiracy to make us buy solvent and patches :lol:

 

[Jimbeaux82]

It's all a conspiracy to make us buy solvent and patches :lol:

Exactly!!!!!

:lol:

 

[C.Smith]

I often wonder if some of the black comes from my bore guide black plastic tip.

Corey

 

[C.Smith]

Where are you guys buying your Wipeout? Used to be able to buy in town but no one carrys it anymore.

Corey

 

[IdahoCTD]

How does Wipeout and Remington bore cleaner compare to Sweets? I have always used Sweets for copper and GM top engine cleaner for carbon. You can't leave Sweets in the barrel because its ammonia based but it cleans copper out pretty good.

 

[DrMike]

Sweets is a good copper remover. CR10 is perhaps stronger, but I have noticed that CR10 will darken the bore of some stainless barrels, whereas I've never observed this with Sweet's 7.62. Consequently, I use a lot more Sweet's than I do CR10, though both will certainly remove copper.