best copper solvent

[Matthew T.]

I have some Tetra solvent and Barnes CR-10, along with some less intensive general purpose bore cleaners. It still took quite a bit of scrubbing to get all the copper out of my Ruger's bore (should have remembered Barnes' recommendation to get ALL the fouling out before shooting up a bunch of copper bullets).

What's the best around? Is Tipton's Truly Remarkable Bore Cleaning Solvent any better than Barnes' stuff?

 

[R.H. Lee]

Butch's Bore Shine works for me.

 

[ugaarguy]

Butch's Bore Shine, Sweets 7.62, or any other high ammonia content solvent should work well.

 

[Dave R]

Foaming bore cleaners work great on copper fouling.

And everything else. Best advancement in gun cleaning in a long time.

 

[jlmurphy]

Copper Eliminator has no odor, works very well, found it in the Precision Shooting mag, bought on line.

 

[Smithers]

Sweets 7.62.

Stopped using Butch's Bore Shine due to the carcinogens in the jet fuel.

I really don't want to get cancer from cleaning my guns.

 

[Davo]

sweets works great for me

 

[Surat]

Jet fuel is kerosene is heating oil is diesel fuel. . all the same, pretty much. I'm pretty sure you get more exposure to the petrolium fumes from pumping gas every day then rifle cleaning. Grilled meat has carcinogens from the smoke. Unless you work with petrolium products i.e. the Butch's factory scrubbing the "JET FUEL" tank all day with a toothbrush and no respirator all day I would not worry about cancer.

I like plain old white ammoinia (wal mart brand even). .98 cents a gallon. Run a brush a few times to bust the big stuff loose. Scrub with a wet ammonia patch, let sit 5 minutes or so, scrub with a few water dampened patches and dry and oil really well. The blue stuff on the patches is the copper. The ammonia is what gets the copper out so why screw around with all the other stuff.

 

[mc223]

After you get the copper out, run some JB bore Bright down the tube per the mfg recomendations. Follow with a damp patch of Kroil and you'll be set. Less fouling next time out.

 

[Dr. Dickie]

I personally like Sweets 7.62.

 

[Don't Tread On Me]

Tipton's is amazing (even says so on the bottle ). They aren't kidding when they say it practically fizzles and bubbles. This stuff is almost a chemical weapon. I made the horrible mistake of breathing too close to it and my sinuses were burning pretty bad. I jolted back and it was not a nice experience. I've worked with many chemicals and I'm not sensitive either. This stuff is worse than M.E.K. It cleans great and the blue-patch indication is strong and easily indentifiable. I've had other cleaners that claimed patches would be a particular color if copper was still present, but they wouldn't work like that.


It's a little expensive, but works very well. Don't use it with bronze brushes or jags. Buy the nickel plated jag and a nylon brush.

 

[USSR]

Montana Extreme .50BMG is the best copper solvent I have used.

Don

 

[Steve H]

I start with the Barnes CR-10, let is soak the bbl. for about ten minutes then follow up with.......................

After you get the copper out, run some JB bore Bright down the tube per the mfg recomendations. Follow with a damp patch of Kroil and you'll be set. Less fouling next time out.

 

[gns4me]

I use the Montana Extreme copper solvent and it works pretty good.Wet the bore with a nylon brush and let it sit a little bit. Swab with a patch and repeat untill patches come out with out being blue/green.

 

[DawgFvr]

Stick with your Tetra...good enough for Fulton Armory M1 Garands...good enough for me. I use their products on all my weapons.