Fast way to clean skeet gun?

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Looking for shortcuts to cleaning a O/U 12ga skeet gun, and keeping plastic fouling down without spending hours scrubbing etc. What are your tricks? Is acetone helpful?
 
I shoot 10k+ out of my O/U a year. I don't go to extremes. When I get home, I separate the barrel from the action. I spray some Rem Oil on a bore snake and pull it thru the barrels a time or three. I wipe the old grease out of the action and off the hinges on the barrel and spray new grease on. I take the chokes out and regrease every other time or so. I put it back together and wipe down with oil and call it good. Maybe twice a year, I give the bores a few passes with a Tornado brush. The whole process takes about 5 minutes.
 
I break down the barrel section and spray a little Break Free into the bores and lay aside. Then wipe off the hinges and forearm. In just a few minutes the plastic inside the barrel(s) has turned loose already, and I use a bore snake a time or two through the bores. Check the chokes if the mood strikes you. Lube the hinges and reassemble. Wipe off the outside and good to go. Seldom do my O/U guns require more than this amount of work. The barrels may take an extra time or two with the bore snake if they are not chrome lined like my Beretta guns. Love the chrome lined barrels for being easier to clean.
 
Who spend hours scrubbing an O/U barrel? One squirt of a solvent - take your pick from simple things like brake cleaner or WD-40 or expensive stuff like Hoppe's, Safari Charlie's etc.
Patch or two on a jag; push out - done. Total time MAYBE 5 minutes if you have to hunt for your stuff. Wipe down barrels with oil-cloth, apply a little grease to hinge pins and knuckles and done.

BTW, my one Browning has about 350K through it; the others about another 100K total..

Shooting better quality ammo also cuts down on plastic residue
 
Plastic builds up in the choke tubes. Remove tubes. Soak the tubes in a solvent that removes plastic. About every 1000 rounds fired.
Use lube on chokes when installjng back into shotgun.

Seen WD40 sprayed down the barrels of a Citori every week by a shooter. Stored in case, car trunk till next week. Never seen him have a problem. (Not recomended)
 
WD-40 is not recommended for lubrication, but as a solvent to spray and use, it does a decent job.
 
Total time MAYBE 5 minutes if you have to hunt for your stuff. Wipe down barrels with oil-cloth, apply a little grease to hinge pins and knuckles and done.

It takes me a little longer to clean my Citori as I have to tap out the sub-gauge tubes and clean them as well.:)
 
I get plastic wad built up in my side by side barrels when shooting blackpowder at a cowboy action match. Blackpowder burns hotter than smokeless and melts the plastic easily.

Most of the time it comes out with just hot soapy water. Plug the breech and muzzle ends of both barrels with rubber stoppers from Ace Hardware (#4 size as I recall, $1 each), slosh the soapy water around and let it sit a few minutes. Then push a tight fitting paper towel wad through from the breech into a trash container. It will be nasty. Rarely takes more than once. Finish with some CLP on a boresnake.
 
I shoot 10k+ out of my O/U a year. I don't go to extremes. When I get home, I separate the barrel from the action. I spray some Rem Oil on a bore snake and pull it thru the barrels a time or three. I wipe the old grease out of the action and off the hinges on the barrel and spray new grease on. I take the chokes out and regrease every other time or so. I put it back together and wipe down with oil and call it good. Maybe twice a year, I give the bores a few passes with a Tornado brush. The whole process takes about 5 minutes.

This is nearly identical to what I do as well though with a SxS and I only shoot about 2500 rounds/yr. I do a detail cleaning w/ solvent every 2 months.
 
I use Super plus/ Ultra tampons.
I retired from a tissue manufacturing company that also made feminine care products. I spent a stint working in one of the production facilities. You'd be amazed at the alternate uses folks found for the products from sweat bands to floor wax applicators to "ice skates" stuck to the bottoms of feet for kids to have fun on linoleum floors. And many more.

But, this is a new one.
 
They are super absorbent - whether they will fit down the bore of a particular gun is something else
 
Slip 2000 Choke tube cleaner also works in barrels-soak a patch and run it down the bore. Let it soak for 15 minutes. Scrub as usual, run your mop, then Tico Tool- and voila, clean bore. Lube with lightly oiled patch of your choice of oil. Barrels done. Use your choice of solvent on breech face, scrub with brass 'toothbrush', wipe clean, light coat of oil. Wipe old grease off of hinge area. (White lithium is good, or TW-25B.) Apply small amount of new back on. Done. Once a year or when needed, pull stock off, clean and inspect internals.
 
"Having a clean, properly functioning firearm for defense is a good idea, especially if it ever hits the fan. Should you find yourself out of cleaning patches, an alternative way of cleaning your firearm is by way of tampon. Most tampons are perfectly sized for 12-gauge shotgun barrels, but smaller wads ripped from the tampon would work for other calibers. Use the tampon as you would a cleaning patch running it through the barrel several times with cleaning and lubricating solution if it is available. Use another piece of tampon to clean out the breech and chamber."

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As a part-time gunsmith, I've had really cruddy shotguns brought in for cleaning, even some with rusty bores!

What I recommend for shotguns is to attach a bronze cleaning brush of the proper bore size, but somewhat used, to the first two sections of a three section cleaning rod. Place the other end of the cleaning rod in an electric drill (3/8" variable speed). If you have a padded bench vise, set the barrel in the vise. Place bore cleaner on the brush and work it into the bore, starting from the chamber end, if possible, running the drill at relatively low speed for about two minutes, then add more bore cleaner and continue to run the rod in with the drill operating at moderate speed. If the two sections of rod don't reach full length, do it from each end, if you can. If not, do it from the muzzle end, since that's where the most leading occurs.

After a few minutes, run a snug patch with bore clean on it and check the bore/choke to see how it looks. If it appears clean, run a few more soaked patches through. If the bore still seems fine, run a dry patch through, then one with rust-preventative like Break-Free on it to keep the bore from rusting in storage.

It takes longer to write this than it takes to clean a shotgun with this method.
 
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