proshot copper solvent?
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JRadice45
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No experience with that. I have used sweets 7.62 solvent with great success. Also have used wipe out foam. Wipe out works well also, you just have to follow up the foam with hoppes then oil otherwise the bore gets sticky from the foam.
Bbear
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I still have some of their older stuff. It takes the copper out but not as quickly as Sweet's does. The benefit that I saw was if you left it in the barrel by accident, no harm done unlike Sweets.
I used to live just down the road from Proshot's factory and have used their solvents and lubes for many years. Good people and great products, their powder solvent is fantastic and smells like oranges. But I have also never found any copper solvent that works as well as Sweet's 7.62. Just don't leave it in your bore very long and make sure you get all of it out. I need to buy some more Sweet's 7.62 - I loaned my bottle to a guy and it never came back. If you shoot a lot of jacketed bullets you need some Sweet's 7.62. Proshot also has a very good line of brushes and cleaning rods.
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Yep, you want Sweets 7.62 if you're having copper fowling problems.
wooldl
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I've had good luck with both and honestly not sure which is better.
Drail - you used to live down the road from Proshot? Taylorville, IL? I grew up in Pana.
(don't hold it against me)
Drail - you used to live down the road from Proshot? Taylorville, IL? I grew up in Pana.
(don't hold it against me)
midland man
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well I'm about too tell you what I use to get copper out and its super cheap been doing it for years and hasn't hurt my bore yet! and that's ammonia I buy straight ammonia and use that straight in the bore and let it soak for a few minutes and then wipe it out and you'll see the blue I do this several times plus I have left it in the bore up to an hour for badly fouled bores so I know the critcs are going to start but trust me these other products they have a percentage of ammonia in these solvents and that's what eats copper! my bores are just fine no harm and a bottle lasts a long time! and at dollar store I pay about a dollar for a bottle of it! after i'm done getting the copper out I wipe dry the bore and oil it with 3 in 1 oil and that's the only oil I use for gun oil!!
midland man
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and it'll work for that too! I use it all the time to keep mine clean!
midland man
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look it dosent have to be badlt fowled I didn't mean to give that impression I use it after I shoot at the range and all mine are so clean they don't have copper in the bores until i'm shooting at the range then when I get home I clean mine when I shoot copper jacketed bullets! so don't worry I was try to help you to be able to do it without a bunch of expense and exotic junk that's really not needed! but hey give it a try and you'll see its all good! I hope this helps!
I didn't take your post in a bad waylook it dosent have to be badlt fowled I didn't mean to give that impression I use it after I shoot at the range and all mine are so clean they don't have copper in the bores until i'm shooting at the range then when I get home I clean mine when I shoot copper jacketed bullets! so don't worry I was try to help you to be able to do it without a bunch of expense and exotic junk that's really not needed! but hey give it a try and you'll see its all good! I hope this helps!
I was just saying I don't have issues yet but trying to prevent them before they start. where are you getting ammonia at?
midland man
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dollar store, Walmart, most any regular stores should have it!I didn't take your post in a bad way
I have used it and it seems to be kind of sticky. Do not like things felling sticky.
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I use Hoppe's No. 9 to remove copper fouling. It works just as well as specialized copper fouling solvents.
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