Anyone ever try this stuff?
I have a old bottle in the back of my cleaning shelve that I haven`t touched in many years now. The stuff removed carbon like no ones business, and worked on copper similar to Butches, Hoppes BR, ect. One could short stroke a patched jag in his bore forever and never get on to come out clean, they were always showing heavy black.
The odor is what stopped me from useing it when I did, it is one of the worst I`ve experianced.

Tha odor is probably ammonia.A lot of differnt bore cleaners have it as an ingrediant.A side note to that is if you do not get it all out of your bore and oil it.It will be highly prone to rust.

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One could short stroke a patched jag in his bore forever and never get on to come out clean, they were always showing heavy black

Your bore is probably clean. The heavy black residue is steel the polish is removing, not much but a little steel in the polish makes a big showing.

Prove it to your self, as I did. Find a bare piece of carbon steel and sand it perfectly clean. Then rub it with a bit of your polish. Black!

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Originally posted by Jim C. <><:

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One could short stroke a patched jag in his bore forever and never get on to come out clean, they were always showing heavy black

Your bore is probably clean. The heavy black residue is steel the polish is removing, not much but a little steel in the polish makes a big showing.

Prove it to your self, as I did. Find a bare piece of carbon steel and sand it perfectly clean. Then rub it with a bit of your polish. Black!

The stuff isn`t a polish, it is a very watery dark colored liquid. I have used JB and Rem Clean and this is totally different. A bore that showed clean with Hoppes would produce a jet black patch when one was run down it with Ox Yoke. A gun shop worker recommend it as an alternative to JB in the late `80s and it became my choice for heavily fouled bores for some time, I haven`t use it in 5-6 yrs now, and don`t even know if it is even still made. It took care of plastic wad fouling and carbon very well. Copper took a bit more work. The foam cleaners are better here, and much faster if you let them set and work, and are what I have went to.
Just curious if I`m the only customer they had, I`ve never see or heard of it from anyone since.