Nature Boy
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Maybe more like a whole roll of pennies as it relates to the amount of copper in this barrel.
This is after only 15 rounds starting from a clean bore in my Browning BLR .358 win
Step 1. All my rifles start by getting a shot of Wipe Out foaming Bore Cleaner, which I let soak for 2 hours before doing anything else.
Step 2. I run a few 9mm Ramrodz Q-tips through the bore to clean out the Wipe Out residue. Here’s the after pics. It removes almost all the copper as you can see
Step 3. I use Bore Tech products and hit the bore with a few Ramrodz soaked in CU+2 to get any remaining copper. I follow that up with about 30 passes with a bronze brush and BT Carbon Remover. Finally I’ll run a few Ramrodz through the bore until I’m not seeing much of anything coming out.
Here are the final pics after I’ve called it good.
Here’s my cleaning dunnage in order
A patch I put under the muzzle catching the Wipe Out that shows it working on the copper.
1-3 Ramrodz pushing out the Wipe Out residue
4-5 Ramrodz with CU+2 (just a hint of blue)
6-13 Ramrodz used with BT carbon remover after brushing with bronze brush.
Note: I was shooting loads with VV N140, which is known to be a pretty clean burning powder. If this was Varget you can double what I’ve outlined above.
This is after only 15 rounds starting from a clean bore in my Browning BLR .358 win
Step 1. All my rifles start by getting a shot of Wipe Out foaming Bore Cleaner, which I let soak for 2 hours before doing anything else.
Step 2. I run a few 9mm Ramrodz Q-tips through the bore to clean out the Wipe Out residue. Here’s the after pics. It removes almost all the copper as you can see
Step 3. I use Bore Tech products and hit the bore with a few Ramrodz soaked in CU+2 to get any remaining copper. I follow that up with about 30 passes with a bronze brush and BT Carbon Remover. Finally I’ll run a few Ramrodz through the bore until I’m not seeing much of anything coming out.
Here are the final pics after I’ve called it good.
Here’s my cleaning dunnage in order
A patch I put under the muzzle catching the Wipe Out that shows it working on the copper.
1-3 Ramrodz pushing out the Wipe Out residue
4-5 Ramrodz with CU+2 (just a hint of blue)
6-13 Ramrodz used with BT carbon remover after brushing with bronze brush.
Note: I was shooting loads with VV N140, which is known to be a pretty clean burning powder. If this was Varget you can double what I’ve outlined above.
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