can someone explain the process, for example:

1. How do you plug your barrel

2. Do you use a funnel to pour it in

2. Have you ever reused the solution (hey, the economy sucks but that is for the political forum)

Thanks

Go to a good hardware store, they should have rubber "caps" used on steel furniture legs, similar to cane tips only smaller in diameter. Get one that will fit the muzzle and secure it tight with a hose clamp. A small funnel with a piece of hose that fits in the chamber and you're good to go. For an overnight (or longer) soak I'll usually use Ed's Red or sometimes Hoppes. They don't do anything for copper but are good for the other nasty crap. Not a good idea to leave an ammonia based cleaner in the bore for any extended period of time.

Thanks, I got some Butch's Bore shine

Any one used:

wood dowels (shaved)

pencil for smaller calibers

or a bullet (turned around) taped lightly

also found this site for rubber plugs

I could never get the plugs to seal very well, the cleaner leaked out overnight.

Abob

I've used those rubber plugs before.

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O ring chamber plugs are available.

Use WipeOut foam, it works better than mucking about with filling the bore with liquid...IF you follow instructions on the can and keep the woodwork covered.

Using the Outers removal system is very effective also, but just as messy if the plugs leak.

I quit that "fill the bore with liquid" stuff when WipeOut first appeared ages ago, and now I use PatchOut almost exclusively to "sent the blues away".

Luck

I mainly use a bung just to keep the liquid Patch Out in the bore as it's hard to get the gun exactly level so it doesn't flow out either way or either end.

Before Wipe Out and then Patch out, I used Sweets and wouldn't leave it in the barrel.

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The delivery of the solvent into the barrel with patches and brushes and even mops just doesn't isn't always as good as it needs to be.

I've used the O-Ring chamber plugs (are they Stoney Point? Got them at Sinclair) and filled up the barrel.

Now I try to drip a bit of the chosen solvent along the inner surface of the barrel (literally 2 drops) and then run it back and forth and then leave the rifle level and tipped slightly forward overnight. I'm trying to wet the inside of the barrel properly and that seems to work great.

I turn it foreand up and down and put the rilfe on its side whilst I'm awake every couple of hours, but it works almost as well as the plugged up bore for me and uses a lot less solvent!

I have done it in all positions . Plugged the muzzle with some rubber caps that fit snuggly. Also use the chamber plugs from Brownells too. Both work good. It just depends on how I feel at the time. I only use the Butch's Bore Shine for overnight work in my factory barrels. In my custom barrels I haven't really found the need to do any have duty soaking as they tend to clean up so much easier. It is also the chrome-moly barrels that give me the most problems. I still use Wipe Out as it cleans faster in one hour than the solvents do. But I have found the Butch's to clean very well overnight.
The Hoppes Bench Rest solvent also works extremely well, actually even better than BBS. I just patch that stuff in and let soak.
Follow directions.

This reminds me that EVERY shooter has their own way of cleaning and they have experienced millions of ways to "get'r'done".

Just coating the bore completely is probably one of the reasons Patchout works so well...the same with the foam.

That stuff keeps on working if you just use a nylon brush after a couple hours...each time some of the fouling gets lifted and the cleaner, whichever brand or type you use, starts working on the now exposed "new fouling".

I use one application after shooting while the barrel is still warm, let it sit 2-4 hours, scrub with the nylon brush, let sit...etc, etc, etc. By the next day the bore is very clean and a second application usually shows very little "blue" after several hours of the same process.

Once your barrel is clean it is much easier to keep clean...as long as the barrel is relatively smooth...all bets are off with a military or rough as a cob bore...

The only way to solve that is to lap and maybe go to a slightly larger bullet OD. Lapping a military barrel and going to lead bullets that are 0.001 - 0.002" over measured bore size turns a pattern shooter into a much smaller group shooter...and makes cleaning MUCH easier.

Luck

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Originally posted by FOOBAR:

I use one application after shooting while the barrel is still warm, let it sit 2-4 hours, scrub with the nylon brush, let sit...etc, etc, etc. By the next day the bore is very clean and a second application usually shows very little "blue" after several hours of the same process.

Cleaning while still warm. Totally agree.

Even gone to the extent of warming the barrel up at home before cleaning.
The Wipe Out foam Patch out really does get into the nooks and crannies of the steel when it is hot and lift the crap out.

Works especially well on old Black Powder guns.

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Barrett's Heavy Bore Cleaner. You can drink it, it is not ammonia based and does a fantastic job removing copper. May not be as quick as some of the products out there but does a fantastic job.

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Originally posted by Rae59:
I have done it in all positions . Plugged the muzzle with some rubber caps that fit snuggly. Also use the chamber plugs from Brownells too. Both work good. It just depends on how I feel at the time. I only use the Butch's Bore Shine for overnight work in my factory barrels. In my custom barrels I haven't really found the need to do any have duty soaking as they tend to clean up so much easier. It is also the chrome-moly barrels that give me the most problems. I still use Wipe Out as it cleans faster in one hour than the solvents do. But I have found the Butch's to clean very well overnight.
The Hoppes Bench Rest solvent also works extremely well, actually even better than BBS. I just patch that stuff in and let soak.
Follow directions.

I clean my rifles by swabbing with Hoppes BR9 at night, again in the morning, then storing during the day muzzle down in the safe. After soaking all day or night, when a wet patch comes out the same color as it went it, I know the barrel is copper free.