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603Country · February 12, 2013, 01:23 PM

I've been shooting my 220, working on the loads with 60 gr Partitions. Wasn't getting much in the way of decent groups yesterday and it was getting late, so I thought I'd clean the bore. I gave it a good cleaning with Butch's Bore Shine and got all the powder fouling out, along with some copper. The patches looked decent, but before I put it away I decided to make a pass or two with Boretech Eliminator. Wow! Dark blue patches after dark blue patches. Then I'd wet it and let it sit for a half hour and then got more dark blue patches. Left the bore wet last night and this morning got more dark blue patches. The point of this is that if you aren't using a good copper remover, you might think your bore is clean when in reality it is nowhere near clean. Normally I like to have some copper in the bore, but I'm going to remove all of it (I think) and then lay some copper back down. It's a custom barrel, so we'll see how it shoots when really clean.

February 12, 2013, 01:23 PM	#1
603Country Senior Member Join Date: January 6, 2011 Location: Thornton, Texas Posts: 3,998	Bore cleaners - one more data point I've been shooting my 220, working on the loads with 60 gr Partitions. Wasn't getting much in the way of decent groups yesterday and it was getting late, so I thought I'd clean the bore. I gave it a good cleaning with Butch's Bore Shine and got all the powder fouling out, along with some copper. The patches looked decent, but before I put it away I decided to make a pass or two with Boretech Eliminator. Wow! Dark blue patches after dark blue patches. Then I'd wet it and let it sit for a half hour and then got more dark blue patches. Left the bore wet last night and this morning got more dark blue patches. The point of this is that if you aren't using a good copper remover, you might think your bore is clean when in reality it is nowhere near clean. Normally I like to have some copper in the bore, but I'm going to remove all of it (I think) and then lay some copper back down. It's a custom barrel, so we'll see how it shoots when really clean.