What's Your Favorite Bore Cleaner?

[LCPer]

With all the new bore cleaner solvents on the market today it's hard to choose. I have always used Hoppe's #9 but do you have a better one?


"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing"
Edmund Burke (12 January 1729 – 9 July 1797)

 

[44 MAGNUM SHOOTER]

With all the new bore cleaner solvents on the market today it's hard to choose. I have always used Hoppe's #9 but do you have a better one?


"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing"
Edmund Burke (12 January 1729 – 9 July 1797)

Hoppe's #9 - Then Swipe with a patch damp with white vinegar (yes, white vinegar - it will pick up left over residue), then a swipe with oil.

Squeeky Clean.

 

[Shoots4Fun]

Hoppe's #9 - Then Swipe with a patch damp with white vinegar (yes, white vinegar - it will pick up left over residue), then a swipe with oil.

Squeeky Clean.

I like using Hoppe's No. 9 too. I haven't tried the vinegar after, but I may try that too. Personally, I don't like using a lot of the spray cleaners and spray oil. I prefer to err on the squeeky clean side instead of the wet, sloppy, or oily side. I know some will disagree, but it's always worked for me and my guns so far...

 

[csm47362]

I will put my vote out there for #9 also. I also agree with Shoots, I don't like my guns sloppy with oil...

 

[shooter521]

SLIP2000 #725 Gun Cleaner. Water-based (not harmful to the skin), odorless, and comes in a 32oz trigger spray that's great for bench use.

 

[JetGirl]

Hoppe's is my favorite, too...but recently, I've been crushing on Ballistol.
It's what's in the PatchWorm's pre-soaked patches.

 

[HandK]

Just cant beat Hoppe's #9.

 

[TheLoneRaider]

Just cant beat Hoppe's #9.

If i run out of Hoppes #9 then i just spray some clp down the bore. Then bore brush then more clp then bore snake.

 

[x10]

I use #9 for general stuff
I use different copper cleaners I have several on the shelf, #9 benchrest, butches boreshine, sweets, and a few others

keep clp, and snake oil, plus others for lube

 

[GregD]

The one I have been using for the last several years is Shooter's Choice. It works good on lead and copper fouling.

 

[PaPa 260]

Either Butches Bore Shine, or Shooters Choice. Both are more aggresive copper removers that Hoppes # 9. I have used Hoppe's Benchrest Copper Remover and it isn't bad, just not quite as agressive.

PaPa260

 

[Steven]

Hoppes #9 for me, I like the fact that it's not too aggressive, which only means that it needs to soak a little longer, less of a chance causing harm to the base metal.
It works and.....smells good.

 

[tenring]

Kroil

 

[Pitmaster]

Weapon Shield

 

[DeadeyeChrista'sdad]

There was a similar thread a few weeks ago in which I stated that I'd just been looking at a gallon can of Kroil that day, and it listed cleaning guns as a use. Given the awesome job it does as a rust preventative and in breaking loose stuck nuts and bolts etc,... I thought this was pretty good. Used some a couple of evenings ago to clean a couple of handguns and a shotgun up, and was pretty impressed by the performance. Now that's only three uses, so I'm not gonna start a new religion around it or anything like that, but pretty good so far.

 

[GregD]

Could you give me alittle more info on the Kroil? Where did you get it and about how much it cost. To be able to clean and protect in one step sure sounds good.

 

[tenring]

KanoLabs.com

 

[standeford]

Ed's Red (w/lanolin it is clean and protect in one step as well)

Sweet's 7.62 for copper.

 

[AllenM]

second vote for sweets 7.62 for copper

 

[whiskeytangofoxtrot]

I second the Kroil.