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Gun cleaning solvent #7758350
12/30/22 06:53 PM
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Re: Gun cleaning solvent [Re: Line Jumper] #7758357
12/30/22 07:01 PM
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Nope I have been a Balistol guy for as long as I have been on this planet and am not going to change that. Use is for way more things than just cleaning barrels and conserving metal, wood and leather and disinfect wounds etc. A bottle of balistol, a bottle of whiskey and some aspirin and maybe a roll of duct tape is all a guy really needs to fix stuff to ones satisfaction.


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Re: Gun cleaning solvent [Re: Line Jumper] #7758358
12/30/22 07:01 PM
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Hoppe's No. 9 for me.


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Re: Gun cleaning solvent [Re: Line Jumper] #7758372
12/30/22 07:11 PM
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The more I use Ballisol, the more I like it. I use it on a lot of things. I can see two cans from where I am sitting.


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Re: Gun cleaning solvent [Re: Line Jumper] #7758373
12/30/22 07:12 PM
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I,m curious as well. I have used butches bore shine and liked it. I recently used up a foam bore cleaner that I liked but it is not made anymore.


Help yourself.



Re: Gun cleaning solvent [Re: Line Jumper] #7758375
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Hoppe’s no9 is great for powder but does nothing for copper fouling, Is Ballisol ammonia based?

Re: Gun cleaning solvent [Re: Line Jumper] #7758398
12/30/22 07:41 PM
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My go to is butches bore shine. Tough to find sometimes but works great.


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Re: Gun cleaning solvent [Re: Line Jumper] #7758426
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Butches bore shine here too.

Re: Gun cleaning solvent [Re: Line Jumper] #7758443
12/30/22 08:24 PM
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Shooters choice is what I use….

Re: Gun cleaning solvent [Re: Line Jumper] #7758993
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Acetone and ATF, or Ballistol...

Re: Gun cleaning solvent [Re: upstateNY] #7759003
12/31/22 10:20 AM
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Originally Posted by upstateNY
Hoppe's No. 9 for me.


This then some barns copper solvent untill no blue green(copper)is on a patch. Then dried and a lubed patch ran through.

Re: Gun cleaning solvent [Re: Line Jumper] #7759010
12/31/22 10:34 AM
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I use Bore-tech Eliminator and CU+2 copper remover with their rod and jags so I don't get a false reading from a brass jag or cleaning rod. Then a patch with some Lucas CLP on it.


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Re: Gun cleaning solvent [Re: Line Jumper] #7759018
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Originally Posted by Line Jumper
Hoppe’s no9 is great for powder but does nothing for copper fouling, Is Ballisol ammonia based?

Yah, but the smell......

Re: Gun cleaning solvent [Re: Line Jumper] #7759023
12/31/22 10:48 AM
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hoppes #9, balisol , acetone and atf, all do nothing for copper

some people worry a lot about copper and some don't
it has a lot to do with what they shoot and round count

if you shoot a 30-30 you might do copper twice in your life time if that

if you shoot a 6mm prc you probably do copper more often , it might be every 500 rounds in either but not a lot of 30-30 get shot 500 rounds a year

more velocity usually means more copper

I haven't tried this product
there are several of the two part sprays like this out there now I haven't really tried them as I still have bottles of bore cleaners that I have used

I use a lot of Hornady One shot cleaner with dry lube this works great on the plastic guns to hose out the carbon , no copper to worry about in my 9mms fed coated lead
no copper in my shotguns
no copper in my 22lr , and no oil keeps them from gumming up collecting carbon as well as they run very well in the cold.

Hornady one shot aslo doesn't touch copper

the really nice part about one shot is there is no need to flush it out , when the carbon is done running out of your glock lower your done no flush , no oil ,so it is fast
this is part of why I use it
on the Club 22lr guns I can hose them out run a bore snake a few times and put them away till the next event it is 3 minutes a gun and when your doing a bunch that adds up.
it also has very little smell and does a great job of corrosion protection.

with shotguns you need the acetone component in the barrel from time to time to clear the plastic fouling.

I find many of the oils 3 in 1 , atf, breakfree CLP ,wd-40 motor oil. , they get sticky after time and in my pumps I can feel this sticky in the action this is why my pump guns are also all running hornady one shot in the action again it is fast and easy.

what you use has a lot to do with what and how you shoot.


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Re: Gun cleaning solvent [Re: Line Jumper] #7759027
12/31/22 10:56 AM
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Have not used the product the OP linked... But I saw a video about it on Bolt Action Reloading.

Just about anything will work though... It's just a matter of how much time and elbow grease you want to invest in cleaning

Ballistol didn't really impress me as a cleaner... But it works great as a rust preventative. It leaves a weird brown residue though... Not sure what that's about. I've heard a lot of people gripe about the odor... It isn't "pleasant" but not exactly disagreeable either... Smells like anise and butane to me.

Hoppes No. 9 is kerosene. They added banana oil to it to give it a distinctive odor.

I've been using Free All penetrating oil. Best off the shelf thing I've found to soften and remove hard carbon. About $10 at AutoZone or O'Reilly's.

Get a bore scope and inspect your barrel sometime... You'll be surprised at what's left in your barrel even after your patches come out clean.

Mike


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Re: Gun cleaning solvent [Re: Line Jumper] #7759087
12/31/22 12:05 PM
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Line jumper, check out this video. I started using the one with the best results. I like it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fibRewlndLg&t=11s

Re: Gun cleaning solvent [Re: Line Jumper] #7759089
12/31/22 12:09 PM
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People used to mention Ed’s Red. It had auto transmission fluid, lanolin, some other stuff and I think #1 kerosene.

Recall you made your own.

Re: Gun cleaning solvent [Re: Line Jumper] #7759124
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Re: Gun cleaning solvent [Re: charles] #7759136
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Originally Posted by charles
People used to mention Ed’s Red. It had auto transmission fluid, lanolin, some other stuff and I think #1 kerosene.

Recall you made your own.


I use a lot of Eds Red. I don't believe that it cuts copper specifically. Equal parts ATF, Kerosene, Mineral Spirits.


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Re: Gun cleaning solvent [Re: Line Jumper] #7759140
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Green County are you talking about one shot case lube for a cleaner? I have a savage 62 .22lr that I can't get the action apart to clean(have never figured it out?) So I just dump solvent in it work it ans wipe off what runs out. Ues a dental pick to scrape off what I can get to also. Bore snake with #9 a few time on I and done.

It used to get a lot of use when I was young but has not been Shot in several years since the front sight got broken off when one of my sons knocked it over and it hit on a rock when I was skinning squirrels.

I'm planning on using it again. It is light, accurate and beet to heck. Scrached Plastic stock and no blue left on the barrel = no worried about bug spray on my hands removing the finish on my 31A and it's much lighter than it also.

A dry lube should help it keep from gunk building up and run longer.

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