Smokey Joe
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Hey, guys 'n' gals--I gotta tell you, these foaming bore cleaners are UN-FREAKING-BELIEVABLE!!!!!
Have heard a couple reccommendations for them; read abt them in one of the gun mags, and figured well it can't be any worse than what I'm using so I'll give it a whirl. Bought a can of the Outers Foaming. It wasn't cheap.
Am currently building a Mauser M-48 pseudo-scout rifle, and having fired it a couple dozen rounds figured I'd clean it. Used Hoppe's Elite (because I had a free sample) and got a lot of carbon-like crud out. Then used Blue Wonder Gun Cleaner, and got a whole lot more carbon plus evidence of copper fouling out. (When copper fouling gets dissolved it turns blue; your cleaning patch comes out in varying shades of pretty blue. The darker the blue, the more copper.) Used a bronze bore brush as appropriate with the patches in the above cleaning, of course rinsing the brush with water so's the copper cleaner didn't eat it right up. Also used some Sweet's 7.62 cleaner, which is famous for cleaning copper fouling. Got more copper, more black crud.
Then, oh then, I squirted a shot of Outers Foaming Bore Cleaner down the bore. Following the directions, I let the foam sit in the bore for 20 min, then patched and brushed and patched it out.
WOW!! The first patch out with the Outers was DARK blue, with a lot more carbon junk to boot!! This after cleaning with 3 other cleaners and patching after each to a clean patch. I AM IMPRESSED!!
It appears that the M-48 has never been cleaned in its 57 years of existance. The cleaning reported above was done last night, and I'm still cleaning today, and STILL getting more carbon out of the bbl's grooves. Think I've gotten about all the copper. But the Outers product is really doing a number on the copper, as well as the carbon fouling.
I didn't think any gun cleaning product could be that much superior. And I don't think I'll throw out my other cleaners--haven't tried the Outers Foaming on leading in a pistol--but it appears that the Outers Foaming Bore Cleaner is worth the price, and has earned a spot in my regular cleaning kit.
Have heard a couple reccommendations for them; read abt them in one of the gun mags, and figured well it can't be any worse than what I'm using so I'll give it a whirl. Bought a can of the Outers Foaming. It wasn't cheap.
Am currently building a Mauser M-48 pseudo-scout rifle, and having fired it a couple dozen rounds figured I'd clean it. Used Hoppe's Elite (because I had a free sample) and got a lot of carbon-like crud out. Then used Blue Wonder Gun Cleaner, and got a whole lot more carbon plus evidence of copper fouling out. (When copper fouling gets dissolved it turns blue; your cleaning patch comes out in varying shades of pretty blue. The darker the blue, the more copper.) Used a bronze bore brush as appropriate with the patches in the above cleaning, of course rinsing the brush with water so's the copper cleaner didn't eat it right up. Also used some Sweet's 7.62 cleaner, which is famous for cleaning copper fouling. Got more copper, more black crud.
Then, oh then, I squirted a shot of Outers Foaming Bore Cleaner down the bore. Following the directions, I let the foam sit in the bore for 20 min, then patched and brushed and patched it out.
WOW!! The first patch out with the Outers was DARK blue, with a lot more carbon junk to boot!! This after cleaning with 3 other cleaners and patching after each to a clean patch. I AM IMPRESSED!!
It appears that the M-48 has never been cleaned in its 57 years of existance. The cleaning reported above was done last night, and I'm still cleaning today, and STILL getting more carbon out of the bbl's grooves. Think I've gotten about all the copper. But the Outers product is really doing a number on the copper, as well as the carbon fouling.
I didn't think any gun cleaning product could be that much superior. And I don't think I'll throw out my other cleaners--haven't tried the Outers Foaming on leading in a pistol--but it appears that the Outers Foaming Bore Cleaner is worth the price, and has earned a spot in my regular cleaning kit.