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Originally Posted by legion
I start with a good bore foam and let it sit for 20 minutes. Then I use a caliber-specific jag with a dry patch to push the foam out. Then a bore brush, and some Hoppe's #7. Then some Birchwood Casey bore cleaner on a patch on a jag. Then a Remington squeegee. Then some more Birchwood Casey bore cleaner. Then a dry patch. Then a patch with Birchwood Casey preservative.
Then I clean the body with some gun cleaner and a tooth brush. Let it dry, and oil with Rem Oil.
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Hmmm... I prefer my #7 to be from Jack Daniels. Not much of a bore cleaner, but nonetheless useful when cleaning bores with Hoppe's #9.
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Originally Posted by tabs
Dewey, Tipton, and Parker Hale...cleaning rods...
Just bought 6 rifle Cleaning rods, 2 Dewey Nylon Coated, 3 Park Hale and 14 brass PH cleaning jags for $56. The 6th rod was ehhh...at auction.
Best to piece a cleaning kit together...buy good quality components.
Look for the US military surplus cotton 30 cal cleaning patches, they also came in 22 cal. Just about the best that there is. Also US mil spec bore cleaner...and grease...
Those US mil cleaning patches used to be every where but they have dried up...
I like Break Free and or LPS for lubricants and cleaning. Also you can mix Kano Kroil oil and GM Top Engine Cleaner a friend told me that is what he uses.
For Black Powder... automotive Water Pump lubricant..water solvable oil. I use that to swab out the bore to clean out the fouling and to lubricate my patches. At home a bucket of boiling hot water with some detergent. Then dry dry dry and oil oil oil.
I also have a Chapman gun screw driver set.
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Nylon coated rods are no more than a poor man's bore lap. Stick to hardened, one piece steel that doesn't pick up grit.
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Originally Posted by craigster59
The spoon nuts may correct me if I'm wrong, but I've been told with the newer smokeless powders cleaning after each use isn't needed as much as the old days. One old guy told me, "More good guns have been ruined by over cleaning than shooting and left dirty".
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Exactly. Especially if you use a nylon coated rod.
I simply run a half dozen patches wet with Hoppe's #9 down the bore, then one dry patch. No brushing. This gets them clean enough to put up until I shoot them again.
For black powder, I just use water. When clean, I run a few patches wet with Hoppe's #9 down the bore and call it good.