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November 7, 2015
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Been working since Sunday morning trying to get the ca. 1925 1894 I recently traded for cleaned and the patches keep indicating copper, lots of copper. This is the fifth (sixth?) treatment with Wipe-Out foam and I’ve soaked it 3-4 times with Hoppe’s #9 for good measure. Never had to use Wipe-Out more than twice. Wondering if I’ll ever get down to bare steel, beginning to think the barrel is solid copper. May be time to break out the bore scope and see what’s going on in there.
Run some Sweets 7.62 through it using a jag that is not made of brass. Brass jags can give you a false copper reading (blue patch) Do not let Sweets soak, work the patch and clean it out of the bore with denatured alcohol (repeat as necessary) until no more blue. Run a patch of gun oil through the bore when done. Blue wonder is another very aggressive copper remover, follow the directions and do not get any on the stock finish. Hoppe’s will do nothing to remove copper. Hope this helps.
Erin
November 7, 2015
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Thanks, Erin.
I’m an old hand at cleaning out copper, shoot mostly lead and they do better with a very clean bore. I’m a bit scared of Sweets especially when these foaming cleaners do so well with little or no risk.
I use Hoppes just to get the party started, it lets me know what’s in the bore and gets the powder fouling out of the way, It will take out a little copper if you let it soak awhile but alway use a copper solvent when a Hoppes patch turns green.
I think I’m almost done, patch early this morning was a bit lighter so I should be able to finish it up tonight. Have no idea how many rounds it takes to foul a bore like that but suspect it was a bunch!
November 7, 2015
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Done! Had to do the foam thing one more time last night but it looked good this morning. Ran a CLP patch thru it and called it good. Funny how a CLP patch will always get a bit more out of a “clean” bore.
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