What is your cleaning routine?

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I tend to run a patch with copper solvent (hoppes) followed by a couple of dry pacthes. Then another wet patch... leave the rifle for about 15 minutes.
Dry patches until they come out clean. and finally one with oil and store.

Every two or three trips I will also use the hoppes bore foam in addition to the above. Dont use brushes of any kind.

What do you do?
 
One or two swipes with a bore snake after 150-250 or so rounds, shooting clean ammo. When the action has "gunk" on it i use a toothbrush and rem-oil 1,000 or so rounds.
 
I run a couple of patches of Mpro7 down the bore, then brush 10 strokes or so, another wet patch, and a couple of dry patches. If I see traces of copper, I use Butch's Bore Shine on a nylon brush or a couple of wet patches and let it sit for 15 minutes or so, followed by dry patches until they come clean.
 
After shooting, I'll run two wet patches of Bore Tech Eliminator down the bore. I'll let it sit while I clean the rest of the rifle. After everything else is clean, I'll run a nylon brush down the bore a few times and then dry patches until they come out white.

The rest of the rifle I clean with Breakfree CLP. It is a good preservative, good lube, and good powder solvent. It wont touch copper though.

I like that I only have to use two products. Though I tend to keep both an aerosol can and a regular bottle of Breakfree CLP. The aerosol tends to foam up and is good for cleaning while the regular bottle is good for applying it as a lube.

There are other products, but Breakfree seems to have figured out how to make it a good lube while also being a good preservative. Eezox seems to be the best as far as preventing corrosion, but it's a poor lubricant.

I also use the Otis cleaning kit. It has 3 flexible cleaning rods that are sort of like a rope with a patch holder or brush attached. You pull it through the bore from the breech rather than push. It's very compact and the whole kit fits inside a 4" by 2" carrying case. Sure beats a 26" rigid cleaning rod!
 
Wet patch with Montana Xtreme a few times with a few minutes between.

Nylon brush with Montana Xtreme several times.

Wet patch with Montana Xtreme until clean.

Dry patch a couple times.

Wet patch with Montana Xtreme Bore Conditioner (oil).

Sometimes I'll use Montana Xtreme 50BMG after the general cleaning with regular MX.
 
After shooting I run a boresnake and then every several hundred rounds I clean with a rod. By the way, I have new boresnakes for $10 each plus $2 to ship in .17, .204, .270/7mm amd .40/.41 and .44/.45 pistol length. Pm me
 
Depends.

Revolver - brush bore and cylinder with old Hoppes or Shooter's Choice, toothbrush inside topstrap, forcing cone and recoil shield, run patches, wipe surfaces and compressed air for detail clean. Run oil swab down bore and cylinder holes. Oil PRN.


Auto pistol - much the same, toothbrush the action and on 1911, remove the extractor and firing pin for cleaning and oil.

Bolt rifle - Break-Free foaming bore cleaner after a brush with old Hoppes or Shooter's Choice and some clean swabs, toothbrush the bolt and chamber, then oil swab the bore. Oil PRN.

Auto rifle - much the same, toothbrush the action with old Hoppes or Shooter's Choice.
 
OK for my bench rifle. I punch the bore vigorsly with a patch soaked with seafoam The kind you buy at the auto parts store although some use GM top engine cleaner.

next I brush vigorsly with a nylon bore brush and then use another seafoam soaked patch followed by dry patches, repeat if needed...

This takes care of the carbon fouling

Then I patch vigorously with Sweets 7.62 solvent followed by a nylon brush

WAIT 5 minutes

then another patch with seafoam to remove the 7.62 solvent and dissolved copper residue, dry patch dry patch and lastly a patch very lightly oiled with the OLD SCHOOL breakfree

I do this at between 40 to 60 round intervals

BTW BUY a good cleaning rod, the tipton I use is worth it's weight in gold
 
After shooting I wipe all fouling down with USGI bore cleaner, usually while still at the range. I use an Otis rod to get the bore wet with solvent. After I get home I pretty much clean the solvent off everything and apply lube. I usually use LSA.

For corrosive ammo, It's pretty much the same, except I use Ballistol diluted with water for initial cleaning and straight Ballistol as lube/preservative

Shooting corrosive ammo will teach you proper weapons care or your rifle will be a rusted piece of junk in very short order.

BSW
 
After each trip to the range I spray Wipe Out in the barrel and set it aside until the next day. I then dry patch it and run a slightly oiled patch down the bore and on exposed metal surfaces for rust protection and store until the next trip to the range.
 
(quote) "What is your cleaning routine? "

I routinely clean.

Thank you,thank you very much, i'll be here all week, don't forget to tip your bartenders and waitresses. :neener:
 
2 Wet Patches To Remove Most Of The Gunk.

4 Trips Down The Barrel Dripping 4 Or 5 Drops Of Hoppes Bench Rest Copper Solvent On Each Downward Stroke While Scrubbing With A Brush. Let That Sit For 3 - 6 Hours.

Scrub 4 Or So Times Again With Brush, Then Dry Patches Until Clean.

Then 2 More Patches Soaked In Gun Scrubber.
Then 1 Or 2 Dry. Then Oil Bore With Patch And Wipe Down Gun With An Oily Patch.

I Feel Pretty Confident Its Fairly Clean With That Routine.

Exception, Pistols, I Literally Soak The Barrel In A Container Covered In Hoppes Copper Solvent For 3-6 Hours. Then All Of The Above Applies.

I Also Oil And Or Grease Moving Parts Periodicly.
 
Is there something wrong with cleaning an old Mosin with Sweets 7.62 solvent on who knows how many patches until there's not much blue coming off? This is just to get the old stuff out...

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I tend to leave my Mosins a bit dirty - they actually shoot a lot better that way.
 
I tend to leave my Mosins a bit dirty - they actually shoot a lot better that way.
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That's funny, because my Mosin's are the only rifles I thoroughly clean after a range session(corrosive ammo). That, and precision rifles...I like to test their limits.
 
I now use almost exclusively handloaded ammo in my Mosins - however, when I shoot corrosive I flush the bore. I still don't scrub it though.
 
Rifle cleaning, my way.

.22 rimfires get a boresnake at the end of the shooting session. "Proper" cleaning at the end of every season so they're ready to go come time for tree rats.

Centerfire bolt guns get boresnake at the range/field, Shooters Choice solvent when I get home followed by dry patches. Pull the bolts, clean under extractor, one drop of oil down firing pin, one drop on cocking piece. Pull action from stock after every season for "proper" cleaning.

I'm anal about the AR because it does double duty as both range toy and HD rifle. It gets broken down, cleaned and lubed every time.

I don't oil any of my bores, just get the crud out and make sure they are dry.
 
I do all of the above, but often I use hot water for my AK barrel and some of the parts. And yes it works wonders. ;)
 
shoot it till the groups start getting bigger then soak a brush with solvent, brush ~ 10 times then wet patch till it comes out clean then dry patch till its clean. Works Very well.
 
So is it alright to just pour boiling water down the bore of Mosins and let them be after shooting corrosive? I normally do that and then run a few patches down the bore to make sure it's dry, but it would be easier to do without...
 
Yeah, you really do need to flush the bore and wipe it dry, then re-oil it after shooting corrosive. If you don't, it'll rust.
 
I give each of my guns a deep cleaning after each range session, unless its the Rem 870 or the cheap Savage .22lr. Even if I don't take my Baby Eagle to the range I'll usually clean it once a month, lubed & everything.
 
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