Thread: Cleaning a Filthy shotgun barrel??

Originally Posted by Tribrit

Hoppes No9 smells nice. I wear it as aftershave.

Na a real mans aftershave is youngs 303 cleaner.

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

Na a real mans aftershave is youngs 303 cleaner.

Sweeps

Bronze brush on a drill
A couple of minutes on each barrel with plenty of wd40
Brought them up pretty nice
Just pitted remaining but nowhere near as bad as I thought when I brought the gun

One of the gun just coz old stuff is cool

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

mightyboosh it removes tar from alloy mag wheels ....its good stuff kero is similar.

I can believe that. I bought a "demo" shotgun which was meant to be in A1 condition. Externally it was perfect, but the barrel looked like a rusty barrel write-off. I got some Hoppes solvent and then some fancy foaming stuff. No amount of cleaning sorted it. A few good soakings in WD40 and the crap just fell off.

Originally Posted by MightyBoosh

I can believe that. I bought a "demo" shotgun which was meant to be in A1 condition. Externally it was perfect, but the barrel looked like a rusty barrel write-off. I got some Hoppes solvent and then some fancy foaming stuff. No amount of cleaning sorted it. A few good soakings in WD40 and the crap just fell off.

WD40 is slippery stuff.
your experience with Hoppes is what my gsmith mate said. Not like it used to be at all.
The Din Collings stuff is the shizzle

Well it went bang (in the good way) put about 30 black powder loads down it with no issues

Id be bloody tempted to take barrels off plug one end and fill both with boiling water(ALA ye old.303 treatment)-a variation on that im told was a bit of vinegar in the H2O-strips paint off brushes so dont see why not?? leave upright in corner for 10-15 drain run a couple of patches through and see what slithers into the day light .repeat until you at least get a reasonable eyeball on the steel surface -then go for your standard treatments.
actually try a wee spot of oven cleaner-cleans the oven so why not?