Posted: 8/5/2008 12:03:57 AM EDT
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What cleaning reginmes do you lot have for your AR's (seriously)? Are the USGI standard kits sufficient and does anyone know if the SCAR kits 5.56mm & 7.62mm are available in the UK? 
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That's what I do most of the time because that's what I seem to have little of. But when I do get time I generally rod the barrel with a bronze brush saturated with MPro7's gun cleaner. That helps break down the carbon. Ususlly 5 passes in each direction. Then patch clean with patches soaked with the same cleaner. Patch dry and then pass another patch soaked with bore gel or copper remover, leave for 10-15 minutes or so and patch clean with gun cleaner and dry. I also use a chamber brush with a patch wrapped round it to clean the chamber. Again using gun cleaner and dry. Wipe off the bolt carrier and re-lube and you're done |
See, you can do it really.................ta  Kits? |
Yeah, but you had magic bullets. they probably clean the barrel as they go. I have coke-burning RG
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. A quick clean with a borrowed chamber brush got it sorted
I was always taught from the breech to the muzzle, following the direction of travel of the bullet? Is there any special reason that you go both way's   Tony |
Coz I'm not going to waste time removing the brush every time it exits the muzzle. Besides, the brush doesn't know which way it's going Come to think of it, the barrel doesn't know much better either
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I was going to answer with you shouldn't rub your barrel up the wrong way, but ..... Tony |
Probably for the best - the four piece steel rod wouldn't do you any favours in the long term... |
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Tipton Carbon Fibre rod with jags and bronze brush. Remove carbon with Butches Boreshine/KG-1 Carbon Killer Sweets 7.62 copper remover applied liberally with paych or nylon brush.....leave for 15 minutes Patch clean with butches again to remove Sweets so that your barrel doesn't melt and then apply a patch with some slip2000 on it. Patch dry, put in safe. Not tried the M-pro stuff.....but the best copper solvent I have found by a country mile is Sweets....it's a bit old school but it is without doubt the best I have used for removing copper fouling. Just don't leave it in the barrel more than 10-15 minutes. |