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Hmmm, maybe we need a gun cleaning topic? Just a thought.....
Anyway, at the range today, saw a package on the wall with "USP Bore Paste" and as I've been meaning to purchase some JB Bore paste, decided to give this stuff a try instead (something to be said for impulse purchases).
Anyway, it seems to work on my wife's 6mm Rem, which has a pitted bore and fouls pretty badly. Given that she shoots it a couple of times a year, and generally kills something with it every shot, it's not a big deal.... but, it's still good to be able to get the barrel clean with a minimum amount of effort.
So, if anyone has used both products (USP and JB) side by side, are they both about the same effectiveness? Any preferences?
My cleaning procedure was to brush out the loose carbon fouling with a brass brush, leave the bore wet with some Butch's Bore Shine for a few hours, then put the USP bore paste on a patch over a nylon brush and give 10 or 12 strokes back and forth through the bore. Seems to have gotten most of the copper out.
I am in the middle of lapping the bore, so it isn't a direct comparison to the previous cleaning procedure. But I had been doing multiple brushings combined with many applications of Butch's over several days to get all the copper out, previously.
Comments/opinions/speculation welcome.
Anyway, at the range today, saw a package on the wall with "USP Bore Paste" and as I've been meaning to purchase some JB Bore paste, decided to give this stuff a try instead (something to be said for impulse purchases).
Anyway, it seems to work on my wife's 6mm Rem, which has a pitted bore and fouls pretty badly. Given that she shoots it a couple of times a year, and generally kills something with it every shot, it's not a big deal.... but, it's still good to be able to get the barrel clean with a minimum amount of effort.
So, if anyone has used both products (USP and JB) side by side, are they both about the same effectiveness? Any preferences?
My cleaning procedure was to brush out the loose carbon fouling with a brass brush, leave the bore wet with some Butch's Bore Shine for a few hours, then put the USP bore paste on a patch over a nylon brush and give 10 or 12 strokes back and forth through the bore. Seems to have gotten most of the copper out.
I am in the middle of lapping the bore, so it isn't a direct comparison to the previous cleaning procedure. But I had been doing multiple brushings combined with many applications of Butch's over several days to get all the copper out, previously.
Comments/opinions/speculation welcome.