Cleaning shotgun barrels, removing plastic wad material

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ackleyman

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Plastic wad material in the barrel/choke area is detrimental to patterns in a major way. While in a sporting clay match outside of Atlanta, we discovered this from an Olympic shooter:

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The Marine Corp has adopted the use of this product, except that it is in little packages.

I bought a Beretta 390 that had been shot for three years in Sporting Clays and never cleaned. These wipes made short owrk of removing the carbon and plastic in the barrel and action.

Everyone that has tried these at our club are amazed at how they clean.

Good luck!
 
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Originally Posted By: ackleymanI am going to cut some up and use them on cleaning rifle barrels this weekend, been wanting to do this for three years.

Any tips on where to get this stuff? Also wipes versus aerosol?

A tub of 70 wipes, or a couple of cans of aerosol, seems to run around $30+shipping. Maybe a couple of aerosol cans are a couple of bucks cheaper until shipping gets added. I do see a place in Florida, that sells this stuff, but it sure looks like it is a well kept secret.

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Not being an avid shotgun guy, I've never heard of this stuff. Where do you get it? My smith uses Berryman's B-12 to clean his shotgun barrels. He claims it get the plastic out also.
 
Originally Posted By: DiRTY DOGDoes that work better than 0000 steel wool wrapped around a long wood dowel and spun with a cordless drill?

He does that also, with the B-12.
 
Originally Posted By: crapshootYou're supposed to clean your shotguns?
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Wadding material which is melted plastic smeared on the bore, destroys patterns.

The company is relatively new.

You will think you are dealing with a wonder product, in as far as how it gets plastic out of the inside of a shotgun barrel, and just how fast it cleans the mag tube on a gas operated shotgun. I have never seen anything like it.

Sporting Clay and trap shooters in this area all use it. I am going to go out and clean a 308 barrel with it now and examine with a bore scope when I am done...we we see how it works on this application.
 
Originally Posted By: DiRTY DOGDoes that work better than 0000 steel wool wrapped around a long wood dowel and spun with a cordless drill?

This product is amazing in how fast it works, and easily. A lot easier than what you describe.

Some things you just have to see to believe.
 
I just got through pushing 8 patches though the 308, does not work as good as good bronze bristle brushes, but better than C4 on patches.

Cleaned hard carbon deposits off the end of the muzzle where carbon got trapped between the muzzle break and the end of the barrel(around the crown).
 
Carb and Choke cleaner is what I have always used. That followed by some Birchwood Barricade. I have had decent luck with Powder Blaster as well. However, all of these can be harmful to paint, plastic and wood finishes.
 

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This is where my wife found it-$20 a can, flat rate shipping $ 10 dollars
 
Ordered a tub of Hilco wipes. I had shot a round of sporting clays and did not clean until wipes arrived. I first cleaned the o/u barrels with a pull through "snake", looked pretty clean. I then brushed(new one), followed by the TC foam I had on hand, more brushing and then patched until clean. I cleaned and rinsed and dried the rod/brush. I cut some 1x3" strips of the Hilco wipes and wrapped one around the clean brush, 3 passes on one barrel and it was black and I could see streaks I believe was plastic waddling. After several strips through each barrel, streaks were gone and strips not as dirty. I used about a 1/2 wipe cut in strips to clean the o/u barrels, I believe this is the first time I have actually removed the plastic waddling residue(and carbon appearing material) from this 40+ year old shotgun. These wipes are not cheap but seem to work very well.
 
spotstalkshoot, now that you have it down to bare metal, barrel will clean up real quick.

Joey, flexhone will open chokes to a larger choke.

Lots of ways to clean shotgun bores, these wipes are just another tool in the tool box.


Most are not aware how plactic in the barrel will open up chokes.
 
Originally Posted By: ackleymanMost are not aware how plastic in the barrel will open up chokes.

Removable or fixed choke gun?

Either way I have really hard time believing that plastic will deform metal.
 
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