The best bore cleaner you ever used?

Some of you may laugh...but I've used it for a lot of years...its not fast, but it does work.

Hoppes #9 Copper Solvent...not the plain #9.

Do the wet/dry patch thing until it comes out clean...then soak overnight...repeat wet/dry patch routine...soak overnight...dry patch, wet patch, dry patch...if that dry patch is clean...I'm done, if its not clean I'll soak it overnight and check it again.

Generally only thoroughly clean like that once per year...after deer season.

After shooting I just use CLP...wet/dry patch until clean and put it away after a wet patch.

Edit: All cleaning is done with Otis cables...no rods or brushes...ever.

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Wipeout and the Outers foaming bore cleaner, just let it sit for a while and then push the goop out, repeat if necessary. The foaming bore cleaners really revolutionized how I clean a rifle these days.
 
Ridgerunner, I'm not laughing. I use the original Hoppe's #9, some of us old guys are just set in our ways I guess.
Bore guide and coated rod. Can't remember the brand but it's got a red handle.
I wet a patch and run it down the barrel followed by a dry patch or two. Then I saturate a patch and run it back and forth a few times to get a good coat in the bore, then let it sit for 1/2 hour or so to allow time to dissolve the copper.
Then I wrap a patch around a cleaning brush, dip it in the hoppe's and run about 12 careful strokes, paying careful attention to protect the crown.
Now I run patches through until clean.
Soak a patch in remoil and run it through a few times followed by a dry patch. If I'm going to shoot in a couple of days I'll run a couple more dry patches through.
I've tried just using patches in lieu of the brush but it didn't really seem to clean it well enough to suit me.
 
I've tried quite a few but not all that are available. Sweets, Butches, MP10, Hoppes, Butches and Kroil 50/50 mix, right now I picked up a bottle of Gunzilla copper cleaner and I'm quite happy with it. I wet the bore with a patch, scrub with a nylon brush, wipe with a dry patch wet patch till it shows no signs of copper or carbon. If bore is really bad I soak over night since Gunzilla is not petro based it won't hurt or etch the bore.
 
I'll second the Gunzilla Truck Driver, I started shopping around for a new bore solution and settled on Gunzilla, and Prolix. The Problem was I couldn't find Prolix in stock so I went the other direction. As far as process, I don't have to let it sit in the barrel as long as I did with Hoppes so I wet patch, until no reside, then dry patch.
 
Shooters choice bore cleaner and copper remover, hoppes gun oil for barrel and WD-40 for the exterior of my rifles and handguns.
 
I use Bore Tech Eliminator for my rifles and CU2 for copper, if it is heavier than normal.

I get the bore soaked with the stuff, let it sit slightly muzzle down and walk away. About an hour later I will come back through and run another soaked patch through the barrel. Typically it'll be as blue as you can imagine, I keep doing this until I am barely getting blue on the patch. A little blue will always be present (on my rifles). It doesn't usually take too awfully long to get the barrel clean as it can be. I don't really mess with brushes.
 
CopperZilla followed by Gunzilla.
Rod w wet patch copperzilla let set 10 min then rod w dry patches. Repeat if needed.
Then normal clean w Gunzilla
Can do it in the house as it doesn't stink up the place.
 
I've tried literally everything and find that Bore tech works the best for me. Both the eliminator and CU+2 work great and the smell is just about non-existent.
 
Shooter choice for powder residue removal and then either wipeout for patchout for copper.
 
I use Sweets 7.62 Normally. Lately I've been using Montana copper solvent as I couldn't find sweets. Have also used Barnes. All seemed to work equally well. I'll lightly wet a patch, run it to the muzzle, then back it off 1/2", top off solvent to the crown and back it down the bore heavily saturating the bore. Let it sit horizontally 1 minute, rotate 180 degrees and sit one more minute, then push out with a oil dampened patch. Repeat until no more blue, reducing the amount of solvent on subsequent passes.

I've also used a couple of foaming bore cleaners designed for metallic fouling. They worked fairly well but didn't seem to remove the copper as thoroughly.

After the copper is out, I saturate the bore with LPS grade 1 penetrating oil then push out with a dry patch after 5 minutes. This procedure has seemed to reduce the rate at which copper fouling accumulates significantly over time.
 
...rifle cradled slightly muzzle down, rubber band a patch over the muzzle, a good shot of Wipe-Out or Outers Foam, stuff in the bore guide, & let it stand 30 mins. to overnite, patch out...
 
Betting nobody will be surprised, but BoreTech Eliminator is my solvent of choice. I run three soaked patches, wait 10min, one soaked patch, wait 10min, repeat until soaked patch comes out clean, then patch dry. Whether or not you oil the bore is up to you, but if I do I usually use Birchwood-Casey Barricade.
 
I normally use Wipeout & then follow up with Butch's Bore shine. I leave the Wipeout in for at least 20 minutes but it can be longer depending on which bullet has been through the barrel. I find that Berger & Barnes bullets normally leave more copper behind in the rifles that I have cleaned. After the Wipeout I then soak a brush with Butch's Bore shine & then run it through. I repeat this 2 more times & then run a dry patch through. If it is still showing blue I repeat the process.
I do not use bronze brushing!

Blessings,
Dan
 
I still use Shooter's Choice. Run a dry Bronze brush in the dry barrel twice. Soak the barrel with a SC soaked swab. Let it sit for 5 minutes. Run 4-5 patches until they are clean (not green) and repeat from soaking through again as needed. Usually twice will do it unless your barrel is really dirty?
 
sask boy":2b3at7l6 said:
I normally use Wipeout & then follow up with Butch's Bore shine. I leave the Wipeout in for at least 20 minutes but it can be longer depending on which bullet has been through the barrel. I find that Berger & Barnes bullets normally leave more copper behind in the rifles that I have cleaned. After the Wipeout I then soak a brush with Butch's Bore shine & then run it through. I repeat this 2 more times & then run a dry patch through. If it is still showing blue I repeat the process.
I do not use bronze brushing!

Blessings,
Dan
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You saved me some typing as that is pretty much my routine aswell.
 
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