Re: Gun cleaning solvent
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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.
Let's go Brandon
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Re: Gun cleaning solvent
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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
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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.
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Re: Gun cleaning solvent
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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
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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
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12/31/22 10:40 AM
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Hoppe’s no9 is great for powder but does nothing for copper fouling, Is Ballisol ammonia based? Yah, but the smell......
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Re: Gun cleaning solvent
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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
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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
One man with a gun may control 100 others who have none.
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Re: Gun cleaning solvent
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12/31/22 01:14 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. I use a lot of Eds Red. I don't believe that it cuts copper specifically. Equal parts ATF, Kerosene, Mineral Spirits.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. -Gustav Mahler
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