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Packing grease
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Kerosene, mineral spirits, carb cleaner, brake cleaner, any solvent used to clean auto parts. Household cleaners (409, Simple Green, etc) work but are slower and you need to make sure all moisture is removed after using.
As Hawkeye2 has stated, the thin solvents designed to dissolve grease are what you need to use to get that grease from the bore. Be careful not to get those solvents on your wood finish as some of them will take the finish off about as quick as the grease is removed from the bore.
Are you trying to clean a new Lyman bore? The stuff I remember them using was pretty tough. Brake cleaner, acetone or a combo mix like Ed’s Red seemed to work best.
I used brake clean after I built my lyman gpr. It was pretty thick
Just be carefull to keep it away from the stock.
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Keep it away from your body, especially your eyes. Wash up afterwards. Good luck.
Bob
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I used low odor mineral spirits and had good results.
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I have used gasoline. The cosmoline used to store weapons is petroleum based the same as gasoline? This was on more modern weapons?
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I have been using a red mix for years, works very good.
Equal parts - Miracle Oil - Colemans camp fuel - mineral spirits.
I use it for everything, bores, locks, (unmentionable) etc...
In 30 years it has never failed.
Gasoline works but certainly isn't recommended! 
Cosmoline contains a petroleum base which evaporates over time leaving a solid wax that's very difficult to remove as if it isn't miserable enough when it's fresh. I'm 100% sure the product applied to new Italian guns has a petroleum base but it isn't cosmoline and is much easier to remove.
Cosmoline contains a petroleum base which evaporates over time leaving a solid wax that's very difficult to remove as if it isn't miserable enough when it's fresh. I'm 100% sure the product applied to new Italian guns has a petroleum base but it isn't cosmoline and is much easier to remove.
For goodness sakes.....just put the kettle on 
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Very hot soapy water. Be careful what you use around bluing. Some cleaners and chemicals may be great at getting under grease, but also remove bluing. Perhaps browning tolerates some better.
I've used gasoline in the field. Not sure how it would affect the finish on your stock if you can't separate them.
Boiling water didn’t remove all the ‘stuff’ I found in the last new GPR barrel I cleaned years ago, whatever it was.For goodness sakes.....just put the kettle on
Mustn't of used enough boiling water to get the barrel the hottest you can and a bristle brush.
Non chlorinated brakes parts cleaner. Keep away from the wood. Spray on a patch and have plenty of ventilation, it’s quite strong.
Chemically, cosmoline is a homogeneous mixture of oily and waxy long-chain, non-polar hydrocarbons. It is always brown in color, but can differ in viscosity and shear strength. Cosmoline melts at 113–125 °F (45–52 °C) and has a flash point of 365 °F (185 °C).
