Lord Samwise
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- Sep 1, 2009
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I have never understood something, and I am to the point in my life where I need to address it. Whenever I attempt to clean a gun barrel, anything from one of my .38 revolvers to a .22 LR rimfire to my 300 win mag, I can NEVER get the barrel clean. No matter how many patches I run through the bore, they always keep coming up with more gunk on them. At a certain point I just give up, usually about an hour into the job. I know this isn't right, at least it sure doesn't seem right. Help me out here, what is going wrong? Do I have wrong ideas of what a clean barrel actually is? I will outline below my cleaning method just so you all know what I'm doing.
1. Start with Hoppes #9 on a bronze brush, run that through a couple times.
2. Run a couple clean patches through.
3. Run a couple patches soaked in more Hoppes through.
4. Run a couple more clean patches through, until bore is dry.
5. Repeat #3 and #4 until I give up, usually 7-10 times. Bore remains dirty with each pass of wet/dry patch.
Please help!
1. Start with Hoppes #9 on a bronze brush, run that through a couple times.
2. Run a couple clean patches through.
3. Run a couple patches soaked in more Hoppes through.
4. Run a couple more clean patches through, until bore is dry.
5. Repeat #3 and #4 until I give up, usually 7-10 times. Bore remains dirty with each pass of wet/dry patch.
Please help!