"Advanced Copper Removal for Gun Barrels,works for me.thought my rifles were clean until I tried this.Originally Posted by jinx-)
Copper Fouling definitely degrades the accuracy of your gun barrel. Getting the copper out the traditional way with gun solvent, patches, brushes, (and a lot of scrubbing) is too time consuming for most shooters... and it's a lot of dull physical effort. Here's the secret to effortless copper removal:
Cross-Treatment with Butch's Bore Shine and Wipe-Out Bore Foam - We use Butch's Bore Shine for light copper removal during barrel break-in periods and afterwards for quick general bore cleaning. On heavy copper fouling, the Butch's will continue to dissolve copper, but you can be running patches through all day and they still come out blue. So, we use something different for heavy copper fouling... The Wipe-Out Bore Foam we use is extremely effective at copper removal, but it has to soak the bore for an hour or more. The interesting thing is that these two treatments seem to compliment each other. The Wipe-Out will remove a ton of copper with little or no effort but then it'll leave a little that repeated applications won't remove... almost like the left-over had been desensitized to the Wipe-Out. These Wipe-Out left overs come right out when we run a few patches of Butch's through the bore.
Here's an Example - A customer brought in a World War II Nagant rifle a few months back. We foamed the bore for an hour and ran a patch through... it came out purple, there was so much copper fouling. We foamed it for another hour and the same thing happened. A look down the barrel and copper residue had lifted to give a furry appearance. So we ran a brush back and forth with Butch's to break up the loose copper. Then we ran a patch through to clean out the residue. We foamed it with Wipe-Out and left it overnight. Next day a clean patch came through purple again. We foamed overnight again and a clean patch came through light purple. One more Wipe-Out foam treatment and we had patches coming through clean. However, a look down the bore showed some copper streaking was still there. That's when a few patches of Butch's Bore Shine did the trick to finish the job. This was an extreme case of copper fouling in a 60-70 year old rifle with decades of copper fouling and pitting. Cleaning out the copper with traditional methods would have taken a tremendous amount of work. Using Wipe-Out and Butch's Bore Foam got it all out with almost no effort... just a little patience to let the cleaners do the work.
Finish with Clenzoil - Once you've got the copper out, run a patch down the bore with some Clenzoil on it. Clenzoil is a lubricant and cleaner in its own right. But also, it tends to give the barrel and ability to resist fouling".
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