Barrel cleaning trick

[Shell Shucker]

You've soaked your barrel with solvent and you've brushed it. Now you need to get the mess out..........

What I do is wad up a Kleenex so that it is a TIGHT fit going into the CHAMBER (one and a half tissues for 12 ga, experiment to find ideal fit). I then place my cleaning rod in the middle of the Kleenex and push it through. This will leave your bore sqeaky clean!

My routine: Spray Hoppes #9 in barrel throughly coating inside (I use a WD-40 pump sprayer). Let it sit while you clean the rest of the gun; you want the solvent to do the work so give it time (@ 15 min, more is better). Push the Kleenex through the bore. This will get 90% of the plastic and powder fouling. Spray bore with Hoppes again and brush (I use a 10 ga brush for the 12 as it gets the chamber also). Push another Kleenex though bore, this gets the rest (normal cases). If I'm going to be shooting the same gun next weekend I'm done. If I'm going to store the gun I spray the bore with Rem- Oil followed by the Kleenex.

This is the simplest, most effective, way I've found. Try it, you'll LIKE it!

 

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Battery drill, wisps of 0000 steel wool or finest grit of Scotchbrite pad around a Nylon brush on cleaning rod. Run this thru about 3 times.
Pull once thru with a Otis pull thru cable with lightly oiled mop. Remove choke tube, apply RIG +P to threads, re-install tube - Done.

Takes less than 5min.


Main thing I care about is the chamber, extractor, breech face, RIG+P on a choke tube, hinge on a O/U shotgun gas ports on Semis.. Toothbrush, pipecleaner and Q-tips.

CRC Brakleen for Trigger groups, plastic fouling, gas ports..
Ballistol or Dexron II ATF to lube.

If the chamber is clean, the Choke tube has RIG +P on choke threads and ONLY finger tight, and there is a hole in bore - I'm shooting it.

Umm <pencil and paper...rough figures>

I got 2100 rds thru my '74 SX1 and ain't cleaned the barrel - yet. Chamber is clean, gas ports have been pipecleaned, External Knurled Choke is finger tight with RIG+P applied 200 or 300 rds ago.

I know this gun has over 200k rds I personally shot thru it, daughter and granddaughter of a now passed shooting pard says it is more near 285K - 295K.
"Math was not your strong point and you lost a few years back when".

Guess that is why I like fixed choked barrels, saves time not having to apply RIG +P to choke threads.

Don't tell Dave,
But I know of a 870 26" fixed IC barrel , plain, no vent rib,no front bead - that the barrel has not been cleaned in 4 years. Oh the chamber is clean and dry, gets coat of Johnson's Paste Wax on Exterior from time to time.

Gets used on 60's era Wingmaster, used for everything including skeet and 5 stand. Got shot 15K rds last year.

We figure the day a pipecleaner inserted from chamber won't fall out thru muzzle - is the day that barrel needs cleaning.

Nice to know some traditions passed forward are still being honored. I don't recommend you shoot against this gal. You will know her by the gun case this gun falls out of since most everthing is busted on the gun case. If she puts a Ten spot ...most likely a C note in a old wooden cigar box. Just giver her the money and save your time and shells.

<swells chest> It is good to be the Adopted Uncle.

 

[Car Knocker]

Edited for content...

 

[Hoppy590]

wrap a large pad around a 12gauge flat plug, ad a small solvent SOAKED pad, then run it down. get to the bottem. put on a pull thru tip, large pad. pull it through then this old 12 gauge "mop" for lack of a better term. and run that both ways. Squeaky clean

 

[torpid]

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[Okiecruffler]

Okay, for some reason that was mildly disturbing. There's a joke in there somewhere, but I'm gonna leave it alone.

For many years I've been using an old sock tied to a shoestring. Can't remember what color that sock was when I wore it on my foot.

 

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Okiecruffler,
Nice to see you post. How is the young'un coming along?

Your posts reminds me...We didn't have battery operated drills when I was a kid.
Didn't have disposable diapers either...
We did have them stinky metal diaper pails for wet ammmonia cloth diapers...

Kit & Kaboodle - was pull thru cleaning kit that came in Shoe Polish Tin.
Folks today know it as Otis .

Before Kit & Kaboodle...It was a big deal for a Mentor & Elder to hand a kid a Shinola Shoe Polish , or Kiwi shoe polish tin with a length of rawhide with a slit in one end, a glass vial of Browing Gun oil or simialr and pcs cut from a cloth diaper, or T shirt,

Rain, snow, temperature variations...we had a way to run a lightly oiled patch thru a barrel, any barrel.

We really did not CLEAN bores, main thing them chambers, just with the rain and such, we ran that light patch thru the bore to protect.

Them Tiny socks that baby's always pulled off, well they would get worn, or too dirty for "Sunday go to Meeting" - and a cork from the hardware store, with hole made by the awl of Case Camping knife, with a pc of rawhide cord run thru it and that tiny hole in toes of sock [think the cork is wearing the toe of a baby sock] - well that was that contraption hanging behind the back kitchen door over the family single shot shotgun.

Not long ago I made one of these for a kin of a fella now passed. Used a itty bitty Tobasco Bottle to hold the Ballistol, Empty Kiwi Tin.

The kinfolk is now gone, we shot and hunted together. Grandpa's old "kits" are put away for safe keeping. This grandkid has one now he can use - and be like grandpa.

I think the only reason the little fella wanted to shoot his single shot shotgun - was to get that tin out of his back pocket, and "Is this how you and Grandpa would do it?"

"Yeah, just like this"

Some stuff just needs to be kept passed forward is all.

I still use a length of rawhide to pull a patch thru a bore myself.

John, save them shoe tins, itty bitty socks, and itty bitty Tobasco bottles...

 

[Okiecruffler]

The Prince is busy growing like a weed. Already more than capable of letting his opinion be known (must be a genetic thing). At one time I had a medicene bottle for each caliber of gun I shot, each one with a custom cut piece of sock and a pull thru string. Only one I have left is the 12g, it's still in the pocket of my gun case and will probably be found there by some decendent far in the future. Wonder if they'll be able to figure out what it's for?

 

[RyanM]

Never mind. I use toilet paper in my guns instead of Kleenex. It's cheaper.