I'm doing penetrating oil and a bronze brush as a first pass after shooting now.Then if it needs something for copper, else Ed's Red and a b...

I always wondered what the little bottle of red stuff was for. Nitrocellulose.I consolidated several small containers into one, thinking to mix it in ...

There are no many variables, and each situation can be unique. It is possible that your brush and patches are cleaning the barrel, but unless you veri...

Picture of penetrating sprays I'm using. Q5 and Spanjaard. The Q5 contains graphite, you can see grey on a clean patch on the left. Middle patche...

Interesting idea. Steam is one of the methods to remove carbon buildup off metal, the metal expands more than the carbon, so it breaks the adhesion.

Saying a bronze brush hurts the barrel is like saying you can take a hack-saw blade made from copper and hand-cut a mild steel bar with it.Yes, they u...

I think that the advocates of nylon brushes never had to get a barrel clean, or else they don't have a borescope to see what a kak job nylon brus...

I read on a forum one guy used wax crayons. Not candle wax - actual colored wax crayons.

Some say that the sulphur on it's own might stick, so they add a bit of graphite powder. I don't have graphite powder but I do have a bucket...