Foaming Bore Cleaning

[LePetomane]

Does anyone use the foaming type of bore cleaner (GunSlick, Wipe Out<etc.)? I tried this stuff last night on my Kimber. Too good to be true. Clean and doesn't stink up the house. I'm sold on it.

WJLP

[JJ]

I use the Gunslick stuff. It's good enough for range cleaning, an field cleaning when I go dogging.

That said, it does not get my barrels as clean as a treatment of hoppes and sweets 7.62.

[Scratch]

I use the stuff in the blue can... I think it's called just "foaming bore cleaner", cant remember the maker though. I like it alot, but it says it might be bad for certain finishes so I'm careful to only get it in the barrel.

[t140]

I use to use Hoppe's Elite Foaming Bore Cleaner.

Nowadays, I just run a bore snake through once with a little Frog Lube on the brushes after a range trip.

[Hmac]

I have some of that stuff around and use it occasionally on rifles. I usually load up the bore and chamber and let it sit while I clean the lower. Otherwise, for handguns when I do terminal cleaning (as opposed to my usual routine of bore snake), it's Hoppe's 9 with a bronze brush, then patches til clean, then lube on patches. Just like I've been doing it since I was 12. Only difference now is that I use Mobil 1 for lube instead of Rem Oil.

I have seen innumerable silly cleaning and lubrication fads for firearms. It's as ridiculous as the aftermarket fuel and oil additive hucksterism for automobiles.

I will say that, for me, Hoppes #9 is the perfume of my youth, but some wives are a little put off by the smell. Fortunately, my workshop is in an outbuilding so SWMBO doesn't care what it smells like.

[WolfTrack]

I've used WipeOut. It works better with their accelerator.
I brought a .270 back to life. At about 800 rounds, its groups started to open more and more. I just started to work for a gunsmith and he told me to try it.
I was amazed by the amount of copper flakes that came out on those patches.
I spent 8 years in the Marine Corps, so I cleaning my rifles is religious. I thought it was clean until I looked down the bore with a good bore scope, then using WipeOout.
I wouldn't use it on any with DuraCoat or other such coatings; it'll get under it and lift it off.

[photogpat]

Gunslick or CLP foaming bore cleaner....foam it in, wait 15 minutes, patch it out....clean bore. Best stuff ever made.

Just don't use it on gas semi-autos though....sucks to get it into the gas system!

[dubya]

I use to use Hoppe's Elite Foaming Bore Cleaner.

Nowadays, I just run a bore snake through once with a little Frog Lube on the brushes after a range trip.

Likewise, the Boresnake is a great little tool to keep in your kit. I have two AR's, a home built 6.8 SPC for deer hunting and a Colt 6920 and I love the little storage areas in the grips and stocks. I just roll the bore snake up tight and stick it in the stock or grip and I always have a "cleaning kit" with me. I usually spray a little Hoppes Elite before the brush to loosen things up a bit, yank it through three times, wipe the inside of the receiver with patches and generously lube everything with Shooters Choice oil.

[FJ540]

Gunslick or CLP foaming bore cleaner....foam it in, wait 15 minutes, patch it out....clean bore. Best stuff ever made.

Just don't use it on gas semi-autos though....sucks to get it into the gas system!

Compressed air fixes that. Love the CLP.