Looking for a solvent and recommendations to remove copper fouling...I wonder if just hunting with X bullets will create to much problems in my rifle...

Thanks

Mike

Don't even think about anything other than Wipe-out. JMO, Dutch.

3 Cheers for Wipe-Out. Although you still can't have my Sweats, What if someone around me passes out. I can use it to revive them.

Really though Sweats and JB bore compound have their place at my house and with a little elbow grease can get the job done second to none. Wipe-Out is just way easier.

Shawn

We have something called "Forrest Bore Cleaning Foam" here in Scandinavia that works very well. I've used it for several years now and couldn't be happier. The bottles I have are made in Finland

( http://www.milfoam.fi/flash/index.html ), and I think they might be sold in the US too. Just spray the foam into the barrel, wait from 20 minutes to over night depending on how bad the barrel is fouled and swab out with a few patches. The stuff turns blue when dissolving the copper. It's also supposedly non toxic and doesn't dry out a barrel like ammonia based stuff (CR-10).



Erik D.



www.dunia.no



Ps. I just saw on their website that it's used in tank and artillery barrels too! If it works for 155mm guns, it will probably work for you too!

CR-10 works as well as anything I've tried.

Bob257

I use CR10 all the time. It is amazing how much fouling comes out. The only complaint I have is that it usually takes me about 1/2 hour of brushing and running patches through before I get a clean patch.

Quit brushing and start wiping.......dont let a rag containing it remain for any length of time on anything varnished or polyed...will yellow..or at least did my bench.

Wipe-out...from the source

BTW I have no vested interest in the company or the product.

Locate an industrial cleaning supply near you. Purchase the 10% ammonia based cleaners. Put some in a little squeeze bottle and use a soft wooden dowel to plug the other end of the bore. Dribble in the cleaner until it is at the throat and wait ten minutes. Pull the plug and you are clean. It should cost you between $5-$10 per gallon.

I've been trying to do just that. Can't find the stuff locally. Even the main janitorial supply place claims to have only the regular household ammonia. I think the law enforcement folks have been around scaring them about people buying stuff to make methamphetamine with. We're losing freedom in this country as our government tries to preempt crime by making things hard to get that COULD be misused. It's no different from the gun control idea. Yesterday my wife tried to buy several different kinds of cough and cold medicines at the Wal-Mart for our family. The computerized cash register sounded an alarm that she'd bought more than 2 packages of stuff containing pseudephedrine. Security came on the run. A woman manager came and loudly read off all the items on the cash register list as the large crowd in the checkout lanes watched and listened: "Pantyhose...Stool softener...Laxative...Cough syrup...Cold & sinus tablets..." My wife was understandably pissed off. Told the manager that you couldn't use these combination meds to make meth, anyway. "How do YOU know?!" demanded the manager, sure she'd caught a crook. "I majored in biology and chemistry in college. I know how these things are done." The security guard was apologetic, saying that they were compelled to this by Federal law. The Wal-Mart manager wasn't apologetic at all. She thought she'd thwarted a drug kingpin. (Queenpin?)

Remember how you used to be able to buy sulfur and saltpeter in the drug store? You can't now, because someone might make black powder with it. You'll probably get reported to the authorities if you buy a bag of ammonium nitrate at the coop to put on your lawn this spring. Sellers of ammonia have been warned to get license numbers and descriptions of unfamiliar would-be buyers and report them to the police as possible meth-makers. (I think that's what happened with me and the janitorial supplies wholesaler.) You're only allowed to buy paint thinner in 1 gallon quantities or less at the Wal-Mart. They think you're using it as a solvent in meth processing. Now in Tennessee, you can't even buy spray paint, glue, matches or a lighter if you're under 18.

This isn't doing anything to further "homeland security" or fight drugs. It's just limiting what we can do legitimately. Big Brother is alive and well in the United States of America!