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Shotgun Cleaning - Chamber/barrel plastic/lead/nitro build up


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When they were showing me the wire wool trick, they mentioned PH009 as well. They recommended bunging the barrels with wine corks so you can stand them on their ends and let them soak, or give it a good swish about so you dont get covered in it, then wire brush it, followed by patches.

 

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Try wrapping the brush in 000 or 0000 wire wool and then putting the rod in a cordless drill. My gunsmith showed me that trick, he was shown it by the guys at the Beretta factory.

 

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Hi AB,

Will you give mine a clean after shooting on Saturday for me please :D

Cheers,

Phil

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Getting this back on track. I do clean my guns, using a Payne Gallway brush and fine wire wool, as described by Blackla, with Tetra Gun solvent instead of 009. It is thixotropic and therefore stays on the barrel walls better when applied with a patch than the liquid 009 for a long soaking.

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You clean your guns?????

 

On a serious note I just give my barrels a quick scrub with a bronze brush and then pull through with a bore snake, all the other bits get a wipe with an oily duster and that seems to work for me.

 

I am a bit obsessive so she never seems to get that dirty!!!

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I seem to get difficult to shift build up really quickly. It looks like I've got the gun spotless and then the next time I shoot and clean the gun I seem to have build up all over again! What cleaning rods to people use that will fit in a drill. None of my drills open up wide enough for my rod to fit, even on the threaded bit where you screw it together.

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I cant remember what they are called, but one of my local gun shops has some very thin ones that you can take the end off, but they you need a brush with a US (i think) size thread (which most have if you take the european size screw thread off. If not, get a wooden one and trim it down carefully with a knife, or put it on a lathe.

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I've got a three piece solid aluminium rod about 10mm in diameter Napier I think, it fits my B&D electric drill but I don't know what chuck size it has. There are some flimsy narrow, hollow rods about but I don't think they'd take too much abuse.

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