bpjack wrote on Oct 3^rd, 2024 at 12:00pm:


Not really. You can flip the patch over and continue to use it. The price is retail there, and I find it at Cabelas for $6. Also have the same thing made by Kleenbore at 10"x10" and $6.
Considering patches are rarely more than 1" square that I cut it works out to $.06 cents each. And I only use it to remove lead, or polish bores, and not for general cleaning.
I also don't double it up to make it tighter. I cut up rags to put under it if it needs to be tighter. When it's pushed through a bore you see shards of lead shaped like the rifling when it exits the bore. I flip it over and push it through again, and usually all the leading is gone. Occasionally bad leading might take two patches.
I have a.44-77BN Roller I planned to have lined, but after a good cleaning with Leadaway patches it came out nice enough to shoot well.

Yamoon,
Your wife bitches about Hoppies?! Say it ain't so.

Old Soldier wrote on Oct 3^rd, 2024 at 7:45pm:

Got a great wife, she just has a sensitive nose. How great is she? She generally gives me another rifle for my birthday and each time she says this is the last one, I mean it this time. I just smile.
Mike 

rgchristensen wrote on Oct 3^rd, 2024 at 9:15pm:


At one of our monthly collector gun shows last year a guy brought in a bunch of NOS gunsmith cleaning supplies to sell. I immediately spotted old bottles of Hoppe's #9 as they were all the small bottles and still in the little colored boxes they came in new! He had 8 of them priced at a dollar each and I grabbed all 8 bottles.

yamoon wrote on Oct 2^nd, 2024 at 9:53pm:

   
Need to stop working on the kitchen table, Amigo!

For BP/lead fouling I am just using very hot soapy water. I clamp the rifle in a Lothar Walther rifle vise with the muzzle in the bucket resting on the bottom. A good, tight patch and a few strokes does a great job for me. I then push a few dry parches through and while the barrel is still hot I oil the inside and outside.

Cleaning takes just a few minutes, takes longer to set-up the bucket and the vise. Virtually no odors

idjeffp wrote on Oct 13^th, 2024 at 12:53pm:


Just because I used my 50-90 for the photo did not mean you had to

Martini - I ran some Shooter's Choice through it right after for several reasons, but the hot Dawn water got rid of the BP fouling mess in short order and was easy enough to do.
Cheers!
JP