Got cleaning tricks / tips?

THere's this yellow cloth called "Lead Away"....takes those rings right off.

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Birchwood-Casey Lead-Away Cloth.
Or Flitz Metal polish.
Or Mothers Mag Wheel Polish and a rag.

(on stainless guns only)

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Introduce a newbie to shooting. Tell him/her that the price of admission is cleaning the guns at the end of the day.

It's carbon. A white ink eraser will take it right off....There's no reason to clean those rings off everytime you shoot.

Additionally, the Lead Away type cloths are handy for cleaning the chambers...>

...to remove the fouling left after shooting .38spl rounds in a .357mag revolver. This is more or less of an issue depending on the boring of the cylinder of the particular revolver, but many find the loading and particularly the extracting of the slightly longer .357 casings can be troublesome after shooting enough .38spls.

I use the Lead Away cloth as patches as necessary to ensure the fouling is completely, and quickly, removed. Again, stainless steel revolvers only as the cloth may affect bluing.

I do also use the cloth on the front face of the cylinder occasionally, just to keep the fouling there in check. That's really more of an aesthetic rather than performance issue, although there may be some revolvers where excess buildup could possibly cause binding of the cylinder face & forcing cone depending on just how tight the gap is.

I am gettting a GP100 in about 3 months. Thanks for some good cleaning advice.

Unless it's on a blued revolver. The lead away cloths will remove bluing. I love them for my stainless revolvers. They take the carbon rings off in no time.
I also like carburetor cleaner, Shooter's Choice solvent, and Hoppe's Benchrest solvent for gun cleaning.

Lighter fluid and ATF has always worked fantastic at removing carbon and crud from my guns.

Ed's Red, Kroil, and surplus US military bore solvent are in my cleaning kit, too.

+1 for lead away

brake parts cleaner for everything else

I've found that Hoppe's Elite Gun Solvent and an old toothbrush works the best for my S&W 686.

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I use Hoppes #9 & a brush to remove any 'black gunk' from the end of the cylinder. The dark rings remain as evidence that I shoot my guns.

A 40 cal bronze bore brush with you favorite cleaner works wonders cleaning the cylinder carbon buildup.

I sold my Colt Agent and bought a S&W 686 3 inch for CCW, now all my revolvers I reload for are 357mag so I reload 38 spl loads in 357 brass. you don't have that carbon ring buildup.Just another reason to reload.

Don't know why, but lead away cloths don't work all that well for me.

However, Flitz polish works like a champ!

I just bought a lead away cloth today. It works great. It's not the yellow kind that was suggested but it seems to work great. Here are a few pics.

Any suggestions on how to use them better? The instructions said to work on a small area with the cloth and and use a clean rag to rub the area. Is this so you keep the treated cloth cleaner? Is it better to rub some on and then let it sit before cleaning it with the clean rag?

Any ideas on how to clean the forcing cone easier? That's a real pain to get clean.

I have used hoppe's #9 with a tooth brush on this several times and it never got clean. These lead away cloths are great!