What Do You Use To Clean Your Barrel?

[LauBen 9]

Hello,

Ok I need to pick some fluid to help me clean my new shotguns barrels as I am starting to get some deposit build up. Now I have been using just a normal cleaning brush set to try and remove the deposits but a number of people have suggested that I should be using a cleaning fluid like Parker Hale's 009 or Youngs 303. Now I have also been told about using ATF fluid to do the same job as it is a lot cheaper and works as well. So the question is has anyone tried the ATF route and what do you guys use to help clean your guns barrels.

Lauben

[Rake aboot 4,935]

Only ever use brushes and some gun oil

[Psyxologos 2]

Only ever use brushes and some gun oil

Same here. A brush, a patch and some oil at the end is all I use.

[Beefbeefbeef 10]

Usually just a bronze brush and oil but I do use Youngs 303 for anything that doesn't shift. It stinks like hell though.

 

I don't know about ATF.

[LauBen 9]

Thanks guys,

 

I will just try a little more oil and elbow grease and see if that shifts it.

 

Thanks,

 

Lauben

[brucemyster 75]

just send it back to the brewery and order a new one

[charlie caller 3,654]

Get some Phillips gun barrel cleaner spray, I use it on shotguns and rifles it is superb stuff and removes carbon, lead fowling, effortlessly, on rifles carbon and powder fouling is the enemy of accuracy, not copper unless very heavy, a pull through with a patch soaked in this stuff brings the bore up sparkling every 30 rounds or so, and is brilliant on shotguns with a dirty bore, try it you WILL like it