Copper fouling... Good or bad?

[ontarget]

Taliv, I have tried a few different copper removers and never gotten the results seen in your tutorial. That's why I asked because I know my factory bore is rougher than your lapped bore and therefore should foul worse.

 

[taliv]

interesting. could you go into a little more detail on what you did and when?

 

[Bart B.]

Yes!!!!

Aqueous ammonia. Stay away from anhydrous versions.

Thanks, yugorpk, for pointing that out.

 

[ontarget]

Before reading your thread on break in, I had fired only 12 rounds through my new Savage 111 XP Trophy 30-06. So I decided to scrub it out and use your method. I used Hoppes copper remover and barely got any blue/green tint no matter how long I let it set in the bore.

 

[ontarget]

I tried scrubbing with a bronze brush and again with the copper remover. Still no better results. Is it possible I just got a very smooth bore?