Birchwood Casey Gun Scrubber

[AcceptableUserName]

I've waited awhile to make this thread, but today finally sealed the deal. I've always found this stuff a little lacking compared to my longtime choice, Hoppes no. 9. It has left a white reisude on every gun I've ever cleaned with it, and it needs to literally be RUBBED off furiously to even come off. I've always suspected it didn't really cut through gunk, and today I found that out first hand. I took my Mossberg 590a1 and put 100 rds through it - 50 heavier loads and 50 light/target loads. Brought it home, liberally sprayed the Gun Scrubber in the bore, and ran a brass brush forward and back 30 times in the bore because I wanted to be sure I got some of the junk buildup from the junk buckshot I was using.

I then scrubbed the bore good with a bore mop and patches, until the patches came out clean. Looked in the bore and I could STILL see gunk...even after all of that cleaning! It's not a Mosin Nagant that's shot a pallet of surplus ammo, it's a shotgun, one of the easiest to clean weapons. So I decide to pour some Hoppes I had left over into the barrel and push some patches through. They came out BLACK. I then re-brushed with hoppes and re-patched with hoppes and the bore gleamed. I tossed the Gun Scrubber into the trash where it belonged.


just my two cents.

 

[JohnBT]

I use it to hose the burnt powder off the gun; then I clean with something else; and then spray the sludge off with gunscrubber.

The white stuff disappears with an oily rag or my favorite - a RIG RAG with a little grease.

John

 

[ArmedBear]

If you look at the label, you might find that it VERY closely resembles something much cheaper at the auto parts store.