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Posted: 2/1/2004 12:01:40 PM EDT
| When i clean my AR I use MPro7 bore gel and a new bronze bore brush.My patches come out blue does anybody know why? Or is it from bluing in the barrel.Thanks in advance and for looking! |
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The cleaner also removes copper and is acting on the bore brush. Bronze has copper in it IIRC. May want to leave the cleaner in the barrel and patch out. Without using the brush. Here's how I clean a barrel. I run 3 patches of powder solvent only [url=http://www.kuci.uci.edu/~dany/firearms/eds_red.html]Ed's Red[/url] through the barrel, let sit 15 minutes. Follow with a couple dry patches to remove fouling. Wet brush with powder solvent and brush bore (amount depends on how much I have fired it), then dry patch out good. Then I go on to using solvent that removes copper jacket fouling not using brush just soaking and patching every 15 minutes till patches come out non-bluish/green. Using a bore-guide and coated one piece rod of course. Danny |
| It's copper in the bore. From what I've heard from Jeff Hicks, aka Celt, the only blue on a patch will be from the bore, not the bronze brush. Here's and interesting read... not really about AR's, but precision rifle cleaning. In general though, it is a good all around weapon cleaning read. [url]www.snipershide.com/blackrifles/cleaner.html[/url] |
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Quoted: It's copper in the bore.[red] From what I've heard [/red] from Jeff Hicks, aka Celt, the only blue on a patch will be from the bore, not the bronze brush. Here's and interesting read... not really about AR's, but precision rifle cleaning. In general though, it is a good all around weapon cleaning read. [url]www.snipershide.com/blackrifles/cleaner.html[/url] hickboy, have you ever used Sweets or any solvent with ammonia with a Bronze brush or jag? You are correct that copper jacket fouling will turn a patch blue. But so will a brush used in conjunction with ammonia based solvent. Edit: Either you have really bad copper jacket fouling, or what I said. I don't know how many rounds you have fired through the bore or the condition of the bore. Just relating MY experience, not something I read, or heard. No harm, no foul. Danny |
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