Bore cleaners

[Mogadishu Meanderer]

You might go all real high tech and heat your water

LOL, …. And a dedicated “Dawn Horn”!

 

[waksupi]

I use only room temperature Perrier water. And Grey Poupon mustard.

 

[Johnny Tremain]

Hot water and soap does a fine job, then you have to season the bore.
Ive used No.13 cleaner for 20 odd years now. I have no complaints, quick and easy.
Followed buy T/C 1000+ bore butter. Got a tube at the gun show for $2 last month.

 

[Coinneach]

Many of us now have things in our houses called "faucets" which you can turn "on" or "off". Also in many cases, one of these faucets is connected to a supply of hot water.

The only hot water at my place is when I boil it, mind you I dont pay any electric company a dollar, and havent done so in 12 years or so.

 

[Coinneach]

Yea but it is much funner heating water over a campfire. Is funner a word. I had a young lad ask me one time at a rondy what ya heating that water for, so I told him my rifle gun needed a bath, he up and says I dont like baths, told him me neither but the rifle does.

Its only natural that we "Mountainy Men" (Irish term for confirmed batchelors living alone out on farms) smell that way, "Men are dirty , Rifles are clean sir" (Sharpe (Sean Bean).

 

[Coinneach]

I use only room temperature Perrier water. And Grey Poupon mustard.

We play with B.P. weapons for enjoyment. Our ancestors used their B.P. weapons to stay alive. The only thing they had to clean their weapons was water. They didn't have Dawn , Ballistol and God only knows how many other choice we have to use to clean ours! Most of the products out there are made to sell . A lot of the companies don't give a Rats_%SS whether they work or not as long as we buy them.

Indeedy, I've only ever used Hot water on my ML's since the early 80's with nary a problem when it comes to rust; or cleanliness.

 

[waksupi]

Hot water and soap does a fine job, then you have to season the bore.
Ive used No.13 cleaner for 20 odd years now. I have no complaints, quick and easy.
Followed buy T/C 1000+ bore butter. Got a tube at the gun show for $2 last month.

You can not season modern steel barrels! All Bore Butter does is leave fouling in your barrel. There is a reason you were able to buy that for two bucks.

 

[Brokennock]

I think the 1st ingredient in Borebutter is snake oil.
They probably call it by some fancy other name on the MSDS sheet though.

Every time read or hear about seasoning barrels and Borebutter I hear that cheesy, Cheshire cat grinning, '50s announcer/sales guy,,, "got hemeroids, razor burn, jock itch, leprosy, droopy chin, burning skin,,,, try new and improved,,, SALVE!"

 

[doubleset]

I use only room temperature Perrier water. And Grey Poupon mustard.

Studies have shown that those aren't nearly as effective as Pellegrino and Inglehoffer Sweet Hot mustard. But it's good to start with the Perrier and Grey Poupon products until you build up enough tolerance to them to move on to something stronger. This is what SEASONING YOUR BARREL is all about.

 

[Johnny Tremain]

We play with B.P. weapons for enjoyment.

They are class C fireworks, firearms for some. None are weapons unless you use them for that.
This type of lingo just give the anti gun folk more power.

 

[deerstalkert]

I'm not sure what a $10 mouse trap would even look like, but I suppose there might be some that some city fellers might buy.

 

[doubleset]

Oh, yeah. We had one just like that some years ago. But it turned out to be MUCH more expensive than $10, was totally psychotic (Black Cat Syndrome?), and was both uninterested in and incompetent at catching mice. Another illustration that with mouse traps you often don't get what you pay for.

 

[DuncNZ]

Weren’t no faucets at Rendezvous Pilgrim

Weren't no steel, machine-made barrels which needed cleaning neither,

 

[John Spartan]

Just to add my 2 cents (though its hardly needed at this point) if you can run warm water down your bore with s little dishsoap the barrel will be clean.
New guy but have been shooting much. Do gave s bunch of chemicals on stand-by if I should ever not have a water source.

 

[david w]

We play with B.P. weapons for enjoyment. Our ancestors used their B.P. weapons to stay alive. The only thing they had to clean their weapons was water. They didn't have Dawn , Ballistol and God only knows how many other choice we have to use to clean ours! Most of the products out there are made to sell . A lot of the companies don't give a Rats_%SS whether they work or not as long as we buy them.

Rumor has it that some cleaned their bores using urine. Sometimes, water wasn't readily available. For modern practice, I use Ballistol out in the field, but thoroughly clean with warm water and soap when I get home.

 

[stikshooter]

Hot water and soap does a fine job, then you have to season the bore.
Ive used No.13 cleaner for 20 odd years now. I have no complaints, quick and easy.
Followed buy T/C 1000+ bore butter. Got a tube at the gun show for $2 last month.

You can not (SEASON) a bore unless it was attached to a original gun and bore butter? Maybe with eggs/Ed

 

[Brokennock]

None are weapons unless you use them for that.
This type of lingo just give the anti gun folk more power.

Trouble maker, lol.
This statement is usually good for a page or two of huffing and puffing on high horses and reasonable people arguing with chest thumping blowhards.

 

[waksupi]

Well, I'll throw something else in. I use room temperature water to clean with, no soap. Barrel comes out clean.
When I used hot to boiling water, it seemed to set the fouling harder into the rifling, and took longer to get a clean bore. Not to mention the flash rust problem.
Anyone else experience this, or is it just my perception?

 

[gvandersluis]

Just hot to very hot water siphoned up and down the barrel then dry patches and a patch with G96 oil and no rust in 20 years. Cleaning the nipple(s) takes almost as long

 

[DuncNZ]

Rumor has it that some cleaned their bores using urine. Sometimes, water wasn't readily available. For modern practice, I use Ballistol out in the field, but thoroughly clean with warm water and soap when I get home.

That rumor probably comes from the story that British Riflemen at Waterloo , and other battles , are said to have peed in their rifle barrels when they became too fouled to load