Originally Posted By: Ricky Bobby
Venatic, I have never tried the foam scrubber/cleaners. I might give something like this a try, along with letting it maybe soak overnight.
Wipe-Out foam, fill the bore and let it sit 4 hours. I did a pretty extensive test on Wipe-Out and plated copper pennies, and past 4 hours it wasn't doing anything.
About 5 of those 4-hour soaks and it had the penny de-coppered down to the zinc base.
Fill it, 4 hours, patch it out with a couple of patches and re-fill it. When the patches stop coming out blue/green, the copper's gone.
The money you save on patches and brushes will pay for the Wipe-Out fairly quickly, I suspect.
If you're cleaning a gas-operated gun, use something else, because that expanding foam will drive copper and crud into the gas block. On an AR you can flush it back out from the gas tube receiver end, but something like an M1/M14 or a Browning/Winchester, you don't have that option.
Do that once the bore is clean and you're good to go.
I'll never go back to Hoppes, brushes and jags after using this stuff, it's just too easy and gets the copper out faster. I quit brushing the bore on my D-Tech 3 years ago now, if this wasn't getting the bore clean I would have seen the results by now.
I rarely run 200 rounds between cleanings, but I've run 40-50 multiple times.
And no, I'm not a field rep for Wipe-Out. 
Edit:
Here's a link to the Wipe-Out tests I did. Since I'm hosting all those pics, might as well use the info.
Wipe-Out foam test
