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westerner Frequent Elocutionist Offline deleted posts and threads record holder. Posts: 11761 Location: Why, out West of course Joined: May 29^th, 2006	Re: Cleaning Rifles Reply #15 - Sep 2^nd, 2021 at 5:51pm	Print Post
	John, if you don't push your patch through the muzzle you have to pull it back which creates two strokes. You been two stroking your muzzle. You're going to go blind.........

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JLouis Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 10625 Joined: Apr 8^th, 2009	Re: Cleaning Rifles Reply #16 - Sep 2^nd, 2021 at 6:05pm	Print Post
	You are probably right Joe the intent is to not bell the muzzle. Could probably relate all of that back and forth and not exiting the muzzle to our younger years and it also seems to work very well in our Rifles. And probably not what some might now be thinking about it is only all about cleaning our rifles, shotguns and pistols!
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rkba2nd Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2010 Location: earth Joined: Feb 16^th, 2009	Re: Cleaning Rifles Reply #17 - Sep 2^nd, 2021 at 10:24pm	Print Post
	There is also the fact that you are dragging a dirty patch back through the bore that you are attempting to clean. And Joe has a point, but as a friend once told his sons teacher, lets just let him do it until he need glasses!!

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westerner Frequent Elocutionist Offline deleted posts and threads record holder. Posts: 11761 Location: Why, out West of course Joined: May 29^th, 2006	Re: Cleaning Rifles Reply #18 - Sep 3^rd, 2021 at 6:12am	Print Post
	Chuckster wrote on Sep 1^st, 2021 at 10:59am: Love black powder; Couple of soluble oil wet patches, couple of dry, lube and spotless clean. Different story with smokeless powder; a dozen patches with Kroil and still get black streaks on a dry patch. Looking for suggestions on how to get a smokeless barrel spotless clean. Chuck I agree, BP is easy to clean in a breechloader. I blow tube about five long breaths (all I'm good for), then push the crap out with a patch. Do that a couple times then a clean patch then oil with Hoppes bore solvent. When Hoppes is no longer available I'll use Eds Red or some other good solvent. For smokeless I use Hoppes. Same thing, easy to clean a bore. Now if a bore is rough, takes a lot to get a clean patch and you may never get a clean patch.

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Marlene Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 276 Joined: Oct 30^th, 2015	Re: Cleaning Rifles Reply #19 - Sep 3^rd, 2021 at 9:00am	Print Post
	Streaks on patches could be lead, or could be carbon deposits that don't want to let go. Plenty has been said on lead, but I've recently become a big fan of Mpro-7 for carbon. A friend turned me on to it for getting the carbon rings off the front of stainless revolver cylinders. Keep it off of wood finishes.


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Chuckster Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2262 Location: Colorado Joined: May 15^th, 2008	Re: Cleaning Rifles Reply #20 - Sep 3^rd, 2021 at 12:04pm	Print Post
	bpjack wrote on Sep 1^st, 2021 at 9:15pm: I am also a Kroiler. I don’t clean until I get a white patch, but black streaks as opposed to overall grey patch seems to indicate a presence of lead. I can get rid of those with more Kroil and a tight patch or three Jack Appreciate all the comments. Think Jack nailed it. Couple or three real tight patches and then they started to come out clean. Thanks to all of you, learned something. Chuck


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westerner Frequent Elocutionist Offline deleted posts and threads record holder. Posts: 11761 Location: Why, out West of course Joined: May 29^th, 2006	Re: Cleaning Rifles Reply #21 - Sep 3^rd, 2021 at 4:43pm	Print Post
	Chuckster wrote on Sep 3^rd, 2021 at 12:04pm: bpjack wrote on Sep 1^st, 2021 at 9:15pm: I am also a Kroiler. I don’t clean until I get a white patch, but black streaks as opposed to overall grey patch seems to indicate a presence of lead. I can get rid of those with more Kroil and a tight patch or three Jack Appreciate all the comments. Think Jack nailed it. Couple or three real tight patches and then they started to come out clean. Thanks to all of you, learned something. Chuck Jacks grammar makes no sense to me. He must be using Grammarly. What does that mean, he doesn't clean until he gets a white patch? Makes no sense.

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Rebel Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 4292 Location: Rockets and Race Cars Joined: Mar 9^th, 2015	Re: Cleaning Rifles Reply #22 - Sep 3^rd, 2021 at 5:03pm	Print Post
	Jacks grammar makes no sense to me. He must be using Grammarly. What does that mean, he doesn't clean until he gets a white patch? Makes no sense. I think he means he stops cleaning before a white patch, just a gray one without black streaks.

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JLouis Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 10625 Joined: Apr 8^th, 2009	Re: Cleaning Rifles Reply #23 - Sep 3^rd, 2021 at 5:37pm	Print Post
	Whatever choice anyone prefers to use, if it works don't change it.

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bpjack Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3211 Location: East Olympia, WA Joined: May 18^th, 2008	Re: Cleaning Rifles Reply #24 - Sep 3^rd, 2021 at 8:54pm	Print Post
	No sparkling white patches for me Joe just, dull grey ones. I clean until the patch matches my hair! Jack

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Mick B Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1007 Location: 19 Ian Nicol St watson ACT aus Joined: Apr 11^th, 2013	Re: Cleaning Rifles Reply #25 - Sep 3^rd, 2021 at 9:21pm	Print Post
	I clean my BP rifles with a couple of damp patches using moose milk followed by a couple of dry patches, and one oiled patch last. Mike. PS. If you don't have mooses where you live, you're stuffed.


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calledflyer Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3738 Joined: Mar 9^th, 2015	Re: Cleaning Rifles Reply #26 - Sep 3^rd, 2021 at 9:53pm	Print Post
	I just use a few patches with Hoppe's 9, never getting white ( I just patch until they match Jack's hair). After a few dry patches I run a patch loaded with my bullet lube in there and call it a day. Been working a long time.


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Redrighthand Full Member Offline Posts: 204 Location: New Liberty Iowa Joined: Jan 24^th, 2021	Re: Cleaning Rifles Reply #27 - Sep 4^th, 2021 at 8:50am	Print Post
	I don't clean smokeless barrels until the accuracy deteriorates. That may be as many as 600 shots. If it's coppered up it can take a long while to get that crapola out of there. Smokeless and lead is much easier to clean and BP is easiest of all.

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westerner Frequent Elocutionist Offline deleted posts and threads record holder. Posts: 11761 Location: Why, out West of course Joined: May 29^th, 2006	Re: Cleaning Rifles Reply #28 - Sep 4^th, 2021 at 10:00am	Print Post
	You used bad grammar, Jack. Shame on you. Yer bad. Redrighthand said, "I don't clean smokeless barrels until the accuracy deteriorates." Myself, I have a habit of cleaning the barrel after every match and shooting session. A rifle always goes back in the rack clean. My shots do not go astray during a string of shots when I do that. The late Dave Purcell never cleaned his rifles. He won an aweful lot of matches.

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cuslog Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 263 Location: Calgary, Alberta Joined: Dec 29^th, 2011	Re: Cleaning Rifles Reply #29 - Sep 4^th, 2021 at 10:13am	Print Post
	"The late Dave Purcell never cleaned his rifles. He won an aweful lot of matches." JMHO: I think more barrels are worn out from cleaning rods than from shooting. Doesn't mean I don't clean though, if there's lead or copper I do go after it.


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