Thread: Barrel cleaning

White spirits.
(1) Saturate bore with fluffy soaked in white spirits
(2) Scrub bore with nylon or similar soaked in white spirits
(3) Dry bore with cotton cloth wrapped around Parker Hale brass jag (The cotton cloth I use is a from a pair of old winter pyjamas!)
(4) Inspect - Hold receiver end up to bright white LED light (or sunshine)
(5) If the bore is still dirty repeat step 1 - 4 until it GLEAMS!
(6) Apply a thin layer of gun oil to a bronzes bush and do a couple of passes. Apply more for long term storage

*NOTE TO SELF: Run a cloth swab on bronze jag before firing
**NOTES on Economy: 67mls of Gun Cleaner $19. 1000mls of White Spirits $17
***NOTES ON CLEANING SUPPRESSORS: At the end of a shoot, drop your suppressor (whole or disassembled) into a jar of white spirits, by the time you get home the gun powder will have turned to paste and you just wipe it off. Poor mans ultrasonic cleaner. DPT recommend WD40 for cleaning suppressors, but white spirits is cheaper.
NOTES ON CLEANING MAGAZINES: The same as for suppressors. I find the big peanut butter jars fit the number of mags I have and the jar fits under my ute seat. When you get home the bottom of the jar will show signs of grit, especially if you have been hunting in sand dunes. Blow out magazines with compressed air, soak in WD40, blow out again.
Job done!

Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction; A client employed me for a tutorial on rifle cleaning and offered up his kit, Accu something? I said, "No thanks I'm used to my own." At the end, I demonstrated that my 40 year old Parker Hale cleaning rod was made out of spring steel, by curving it in an arc and letting it spring back. He was so impressed he grabbed his own aluminium Accu something rod and bent that in an arc! SNAP! Not a great outcome, but he did say, "Today I learnt something!"

Two piece of plywood in your engineer vice will hold the barrel safely whist cleaning. Point is downhill towards the muzzle so the dirty cleaning fluid flows out the muzzle, not back into your magazine housing. Compressed air for blowing out detritus.