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Reply #15 - Mar 12th, 2026 at 5:57pm
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Been scrubbing bores with kroil for 25 + years. It is the shizznit !.
  
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Reply #16 - Mar 12th, 2026 at 7:15pm
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So since Kroil is such a good penetrant won't it remove your bore seasoning? If you use seasoning.

I remember Fred using some sort of rod and a solution to clean his bores. Said his rifles would not shoot good after doing it. He reasoned that he had removed the seasoning.
  

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Reply #17 - Mar 13th, 2026 at 9:40am
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I'm thinking about doing a little experiment with kroil. I've got 50 rounds left over from last weekends ram bash at Cavalier. So I'm going to shoot a test group then clean up with patches and kroil then shoot another group then clean the same way with kroil again and try a third group. When I clean up anything after cast bullets I've only used dry patches with it taking about 3 patches to make the bore spotless and I never use a brush in my Shiloh's. I'm going to use my backup Shiloh for the test just incase she doesn't shoot as well at the end of the experiment. I've got a feeling that it's going to flush out a lot of icky that I thought was a spotless bore. This same rifle surprised me on my last experiment with aneild brass it's groups shrank about a quarter inch with aneild cases and so did my other .45-70's
  
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Reply #18 - Mar 13th, 2026 at 4:20pm
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Well I finished the experiment and I can report that there was no difference in the accuracy of the rifle. Because I used solvent rather than dry patches clean up did take a little longer but that is the only noticeable difference. O yea and now the rifle smells like Kroil.
  
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Reply #19 - Mar 13th, 2026 at 4:21pm
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Well, I finished the experiment and I can report that there was no difference in the accuracy of the rifle. Because I used solvent rather than dry patches clean up did take a little longer but that is the only noticeable difference. O yea and now the rifle smells like Kroil.
  
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