All round bore cleaner recommendations

[Jack3]

Can anyone recommend a good all-round product for clearing centrefire rifles?

Napier's bore solvent "Ensures the complete removal of lead copper and nitro powder residues".

Any good or should I look at using something else? Thanks

 

[Lancaster]

WipeOut Tactical Advantage plus Accelerator.
Looked through a mates rifle on Sunday with the borescope, it had sat overnight in KG12 copper cleaner and been scrubbed with a PB brush, still lots of streaks of thick copper and crap.
Swabbed it out with TA & Accelerator and left it for a couple of hours whilst we had lunch and went for a walk, then cleaned it out with a nylon brush and a few patches, clean as a whistle.

 

[ashray]

boar tech eliminator

 

[HonestJohn]

ballistol after every 10-20 rounds or so and you'll never need to do anything else. also sorts out your wood, metal and leather,,or plastic if you're into that..regenerates rubber recoil pads, lubricates, smells better than a fine woman, and comes in both bottle and spray cans! what's not to love!

 

[Utectok]

boar tech eliminator

Same for me

 

[Lancaster]

ballistol after every 10-20 rounds or so and you'll never need to do anything else. also sorts out your wood, metal and leather,,or plastic if you're into that..regenerates rubber recoil pads, lubricates, smells better than a fine woman, and comes in both bottle and spray cans! what's not to love!

It doesn't touch copper.

 

[HonestJohn]

It doesn't touch copper.

interesting, been using it for 25+ years and has been for me! otherwise I can guarantee you i'd have some serious copper fouling by now!

 

[HonestJohn]

Firearm Cleaning Oil & Lubricant - Ballistol

Keeps firearms protected – lock, stock and barrel. Ballistol cleans and removes all types of bore fouling. Cleaning with Ballistol will save you time, minimize the need for brushing, and also form a protective film on your firearm. Due to its slight alkalinity, Ballistol neutralizes and...

ballistol.com

 

[Lancaster]

interesting, been using it for 25+ years and has been for me! otherwise I can guarantee you i'd have some serious copper fouling by now!

I use Ballistol for all sorts of stuff, but the Borescope doesn't lie
I'm sure that @Steff will be along soon to state that the only way to clean a barrel is to scrub the chuff out of it with a PB brush

 

[HonestJohn]

I use Ballistol for all sorts of stuff, but the Borescope doesn't lie

to each their own. always cleaned with B'stol after 10 rounds or so, never had copper build up. bought some hoppes copper remover a couple years back, just to be sure, came out clean, so I chucked it. perhaps if you leave it 50-100 rounds the ballistol might not be strong enough, perhaps it's dependent on how many rounds you put through, etc. not tried it with copper ammo yet, so time will tell if that makes a difference, although in reality it should not as jackets are jackets whether lead inside or pure copper

 

[Border]

ballistol after every 10-20 rounds or so and you'll never need to do anything else. also sorts out your wood, metal and leather,,or plastic if you're into that..regenerates rubber recoil pads, lubricates, smells better than a fine woman, and comes in both bottle and spray cans! what's not to love!

I think it smells like a cross between cats **** and balsam poplar. But hey, if that's how you like your women to smell

 

[Lancaster]

to each their own. always cleaned with B'stol after 10 rounds or so, never had copper build up. bought some hoppes copper remover a couple years back, just to be sure, came out clean, so I chucked it. perhaps if you leave it 50-100 rounds the ballistol might not be strong enough, perhaps it's dependent on how many rounds you put through, etc. not tried it with copper ammo yet, so time will tell if that makes a difference, although in reality it should not as jackets are jackets whether lead inside or pure copper

Aye, fair point, my rifles don't see anywhere near as much cleaning, so when they do get fettled they are probably much muckier than after 10 rounds.

 

[JockStalk]

I‘ve tried Forrest bore foam but always end up like one of those custard pie gags.

 

[Steff]

I use Ballistol for all sorts of stuff, but the Borescope doesn't lie
I'm sure that @Steff will be along soon to state that the only way to clean a barrel is to scrub the chuff out of it with a PB brush

Yup! … and Ballistol on the bronze brush.

 

[Rory]

Boretech Eliminator works well for me.

 

[Border]

Ballistol. Bore Tech Eliminator and various KG products for copper and carbon is what I use.

 

[Muir]

I don't clean. Hoppes #9 when I do.
Ballistol for my black powder guns. (Smells like a fine woman?? Which end?? )~Muir

 

[sikadog]

You can only poke it in from one end.

 

[muddy42]

WipeOut Tactical Advantage.

I use Meths for the easy dirt and to remove the WipeOut after each soak. I try to get to a stage where the patches come out clean. If all else fails I occasionally have to resort to a bronze brush.

 

[Scotty99]

Wipeout Tactical Advantage…….cleans out the carbon and copper. Swab through with a couple of wet patches followed by several dry patches shifts most of the carbon. Swab again with a couple of wet patches and leave for about 2 hours with the barrel horizontal. Run a dry patch through it’ll come out tinted blue which is the copper coming off. Run dry patches through until completely clean.