todd
Well-Known Member
The only timeI really deep clean a gun is when I shoot BP through it. The patches have to come out nearly perfectly white before I am satisfied. Also when I buy a used gun I try to deep clean the barrel. I thought Mil Surps were bad until I tried to de-copper an 86 Winchester in .33 w.c.f.
My .22's get a patch of Ed's Red pushed through and call it good. The exterior gets a good wipe down with an old sock soaked in Ballistol, even the stainless, aluminum, wood, and plastic.
When I come in from a cast bullet center fire session I do the same thing, although I usually flip the patch over, run it through a second time, and finish with a dry patch. My Ed's has lanolin in it. The exterior gets the Ballistol sock.
I want to clean the Hi-Power but I also want to see what the barrel looks like after 100-200 rounds of cast through it. I'll clean the barrel over a white paper towel with a bronze brush to see if I get any lead flakes. The first time I shot it with cast about 3/4 years ago, I immediately pulled it down, looked through the barrel, then pushed a patch on a jag and got nothing after about 25 rounds. Sized .357", Ben's Red and BLL.
AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
black gunk, cupronickel, black gunk, copper, black gunk, spirals, black gunk and some more black gunk came out of my 1898 spr armory for 6 or 7 days. did i mention black gunk?
i would spray some gunslicks foaming bore cleaner(about 3 or 4 times) and leave it sit overnite. then i would use sweets, shooters choice, sweets, shooters choice...for about 8 - 10 hours each day. (i did 6 or 7 days over 3 or 4 weeks) . by the time i got to bare steel, my arm was like arnold schwarzenegger!!!!
normally when i buy a milsurp its an overnite course of gunslicks foaming bore cleaner(3 or 4 times ) and then either sweets or shooters choice(2-4 hours) and then bare steel. ballistol or rem oil to finish it up.
i have 2000-2500 rounds out of my 30-40 krag(165gr RD .311") and its still clean.