Gentlemen,

what is your advice for making a difficult-to-clean bore clean?I have a .222Rem, which I cannot get clean in the barrel. I soak with Shooter�s choice, brush with bronze brush, clean with rags, repeat the procedure again and again, but am not able to have the rags to come out without black dirt. I don�t have that problem with my other rifles.

Best regards,

Fritz

Fritz,

I normammly start out with a brush soaked in powder solvent. I run it all the way through and back again once for every shot I have fired since the last cleaning.

Next I run some dry patches on a tight pusk jag to dry the bore out a bit.

Then I run patches on a tight jag soaked in cooper solvent. I wait about 5 minutes or so between patches.

Once they start coming out clean with little fouling, I run dry patches until they come out spottless.

If you still have stuff coming out on your patches you should look and see if you have the right sized jag. With good tools the bore should become clean ratehr quick.

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Just an observation, maybe it helps. Whatever you do, if you run a brass brush through a barrel, the patch that follows will be dirty. Enough brass and metal to mix with the solvent to make it dark.

Kinda like using a strong ammonia cleaner and the brass of the jag turning it blue, and blue, and blue, and blue........

Try leaving out the brush, and just letting the solvent sit for a little while. That'll tell you about powder fouling. Ditto for an ammonia solvent and copper. HTH, Dutch.

One time I had a poor quality brush & it seemed I could never get a gun clean till 1 day I changed brushes & presto, instantly clean gun. I now use nylon brushes a lot.

If I have a rifle that is tuff to clean I soak it overnite in Butch's BoreShine. A hint! If you are going to use a bronze brush get the best ones you can find and but a couple of dozen...everytime the brush comes out of the barrel make sure it's clean before it goes back it. Brake-cleaner etc works great..just spray it. I rarely use a brush more than 2 cleanings and it I've shot a lot just one....their cheap enough.

I usually put a patch over the brush and I usually use SS brushes so that the bronze won't end up in the bore. I suppose I'll get a lecture on using a SS brush... That IOSSO bore cleaning paste works OK but won't touch copper fouling. FWIW.

Try JB bore cleaning paste.Scrub with JB,remove JB with solvent soaked patches,follow with dry patches till they come out clean.Then use a patch with whatever preservative you prefer.Job should be done.

Does it shoot?? If so stop cleaning it. You will do more harm than good by trying to make it perfect.

If it is full of metal won't shoot that is a different matter. I like the electo-chemical method. It saves rod strokes and that is a good thing.

Just can't get it clean.....Hmmmm, are you using a cleaner that contains some abrasive? Rem Clean?? If so you may be seeing steel on the patch. You can put JB and Flitz on a patch and poke it down a brand new barrel. It will come out black. That is steel!!

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Originally posted by Fritz Kraut:
Gentlemen,

what is your advice for making a difficult-to-clean bore clean?I have a .222Rem, which I cannot get clean in the barrel. I soak with Shooter�s choice, brush with bronze brush, clean with rags, repeat the procedure again and again, but am not able to have the rags to come out without black dirt. I don�t have that problem with my other rifles.

Best regards,

Fritz

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[This message has been edited by scot (edited 12-13-2001).]

Gentlemen,

thanks for your advice.

Best regards,

Fritz