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Then run some patches soaked with degreaser, such as Outers Crud Cutter, followed by a final dry patch. Now remove all traces of the first solvent by running dry patches through the bore.
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Wait a few more minutes and run a dry patch through. Let the gun sit for a few minutes to allow the solvent to work, and then follow with a couple more wet patches. The Sinclair Cleaning Link keep the upper and lower actions open on an AR, which makes cleaning the gun much easier. Also, some solvents will eat the bronze bristles. This is to prevent abrasive debris from accumulating. Let it run off the brush and so you flush away the gunk. After using the brush, always remove dirty solvent from it with a degreasing spray. Instead, push it all the way out of the muzzle then pull it back through the bore. Never reverse the brush while it’s in the bore. I keep a supply of small Dixie Cups in my shop for this use. Instead put some solvent in small container and dip the brush into that. Don’t dip the brush in the solvent bottle, as this will contaminate the remaining solvent. It’s important to keep the brush wet, so reapply solvent after every couple of passes. Having left the barrel wet with solvent, use a properly fitted bronze brush soaked with solvent to make several passes.
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Here’s how to choose a good cleaning rod. If you want to shoot straight, you’d better watch what you stick down your barrel. You may want to let the gun soak a few minutes between patches to allow the solvent to work. It’s best to use each patch for only one pass before replacing it with a new solvent soaked patch, but I do sometimes use both sides of the patch at this stage of cleaning. Wet a patch with a solvent that will remove both powder fouling and copper fouling, such as Hoppe’s #9 Benchrest, and run it through the bore. This process involves strong solvents, so glove up, use eye protection, and make sure there’s plenty of ventilation.Ĭlean from the rear of the rifle when possible, and always use a cleaning-rod guide to keep the rod centered in the bore, and to prevent crud from getting into the action. What I can do is explain how you’ll know when you’re done. I can’t say how many patches or how many swipes of the brush will be required to clean any specific rifle, nobody can. But those are very rare critters, and most rifle barrels will require some effort to clean. I have a few high-end barrels on custom rifles that foul so little, they clean up with just a few patches. If you can accomplish that with a few patches, fine-but it doesn’t happen often. The key is to clean the bore down to bare steel, and remove all powder and metal fouling. He didn’t need to have bedded the rifle after all. He gave the rifle to me to check, and the bore had so much copper in it I almost could have sold it for scrap. The bedding didn’t fix his accuracy problem. One man I know bedded his rifle barrel because it was shooting badly. 338 Winchester that was fouled so badly that it looked like a smoothbore. I didn’t know it was physically possible for that much copper to be trapped in so small a bore. I once spent a week cleaning a badly fouled. The guide also keeps gunk out of the receiver. Placing a rod guide such as this Sinclair AR-15 model in the receiver make starting a patch easier and keeps the rod straight in the bore, preventing damage to rifling. Sometimes guns are so badly fouled it takes longer than that, even with the correct solvent.
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Even scrubbing the bore for days doesn’t ensure the rifle is clean, because if you’re using the wrong solvent, it accomplishes nothing. That’s the equivalent of running your car through a puddle and claiming you washed it. Many shooters run a few patches through the bore, maybe make a pass or two with a brush, and assume that they have cleaned the rifle.
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The truth is that while many people think their gun is clean, it really isn’t. When that shooter comes to pick up his gun, I smile, hand them back a rifle that is shooting well again, and let them think I am a miracle worker. I can’t begin to tell you how often my cleaning alone will fix the problem. So, I’ll take the rifle, and my first step is to clean the “already-cleaned” bore, and test-shoot the rifle. Many will insist to the point of confrontation that they “already cleaned it.” I have a checklist of steps to correct that, but my first step is to ask the gun owner a question: I’m the gun guy in the neighborhood, and my gunsmith shop is the first stop when somebody is having gun troubles-often an accurate rifle that suddenly started misbehaving and spraying the target with patterns instead of tight groups.