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#21 ·
I have a set of Briley sub-gauge skeet tubes in the gun I use mostly for sporting. It is often months and months of shooting 12 gauge sporting thru those barrels before I insert the skeet tubes. All I do I is run a brush thru once or twice, then a wooly-stick thru the barrels, then insert the tubes. Often I skip the brush. If there was any appreciable plastic build-up I wouldn't be able get the skeet-tubes in the barrel with just that cursory cleaning.
 
#22 ·
2fast916...I also have a KX-6 Special, 2 months old, love the gun and have 2,100 rounds through it, (yes I keep count too).
I have not noticed the streaks you describe in my barrel, makes me wonder what shells you are shooting.
 
#24 ·
Those streaks could be residual plastic. Use Ed's Red. It works magic. The acetone is what really cuts into and dissolves the plastic. Do not get it on your stock which shouldn't be a problem because you will break the gun apart before cleaning. Good luck with the K gun. Wish you lived near me so I could shoot a few rounds with it!!
 
#25 ·
2fast916 said:
I’m not 100% sure that is what I’m seeing. As someone else suggested it may be from the lead. My original assumption is it was wad plastic.
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You know, a friend had that complaint. When I looked down the barrel, I did see something.
When I aimed the barrel at the blue sky and looked, there was nothing.
A shiny bore will reflect in lines down the barrel.
 
Discussion starter · #26 ·
acbeddoe said:
You know, a friend had that complaint. When I looked down the barrel, I did see something.
When I aimed the barrel at the blue sky and looked, there was nothing.
A shiny bore will reflect in lines down the barrel.
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Hmm...never considered that. My shop has 5000K LED lights and is very well lighted.....something I did recently. It's hard to miss any defects, etc. I will take my barrel outside tomorrow to see how it shines. It would be funny, after starting this thread, if that's all it was.

Lots of great tips & suggestions though. I really appreciate everyone's help & insight.
 
#27 ·
Put some Hoppes #9 or Elite in the barrel and let it sit all day or overnight. Then run a patch thru on a jag. If it comes out with a blue/green tint, it is lead in the barrel. I like the Hoppes Elite because you can get it in a spray bottle. A couple of squirts and run a bore brush thru to spread it out and let it do the work for you.
 
#31 ·
Ed's Red and a bronze bore brush chucked up in a high-speed drill.
I have two Beretta's that get plastic fouling for about 4", starting right after the forcing cone.
It takes about three application of Ed's Red and about two minutes of the bore brush after each application to finally remove all the fouling in one barrel.
Don't know why any of my Brownings, Remingtons, or Winchesters don't do this, but two of my three Berettas suffer from it.

Also don't know why the acetone in the Ed's Red is effective, since I store my Red in polyethylene jugs and they don't seem to be affected by it. (wads are made of polyethylene) I think the bore brush is doing 99% of the removal.
 
#33 ·
Zoom.golly. No, I mean lead. Where would copper come from ? Have you ever seen the lead packing in old cast iron sewer pipes ? It is a pretty blue/green color where exposed to run-off. I run a bronze Tornado brush thru the barrel over a white paper towel and you can see the plastic on the towel. Then a bore-snake. No plastic left.
The streaks are still there. For some reason, only on the bottom of the barrel. I shoot several times a week and do a major clean once a week. The streaks always come out with this method.
 
#34 ·
I use the drill method with solvent and never had any streaks (Beretta)
Cut off the handle of a rod chuck it up spin slow to start and increase the speed as it breaks loose.
Work it back in forth like cross hatching - then out the muzzle - boy does the crap fly.
On the other hand I shot with an older guy who had won at the grand and said he had never
cleaned the bore of his Perazzi for 1000's upon 1000's.
May have been pulling my leg but I don't think so.
 
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wrd said:
Zoom.golly. No, I mean lead. Where would copper come from ? Have you ever seen the lead packing in old cast iron sewer pipes ? It is a pretty blue/green color where exposed to run-off. I run a bronze Tornado brush thru the barrel over a white paper towel and you can see the plastic on the towel. Then a bore-snake. No plastic left.
The streaks are still there. For some reason, only on the bottom of the barrel. I shoot several times a week and do a major clean once a week. The streaks always come out with this method.
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Is this the Tornado Brush you are using?

HOPPES TORNADO BRUSHES | Brownells

SPECS: Shotgun Brush - Stainless steel. 3¼" (8.3cm) long overall. 5⁄16"-27 thread.

I’ve stayed away from it because the specs state it’s stainless steel and don’t like the idea of using it down the bore.
 
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