Gun Cleaning products from KG Industries
by Vince Bottomley
Gun Cleaning products from KG Industries
Does anyone like cleaning guns? No! As a result, many guns do not get cleaned as thoroughly or often as they should be. My first introduction to competitive rifle shooting was benchrest and the first thing a benchrest shooter learns? Fouling is the thief of accuracy!
I clean after every competition – during a competition sometimes as most accurate rifles will show a deterioration in accuracy after 25 to 50 rounds. One of my shooting buddies proudly professed that he never cleaned his rifle. “Shot one- inch groups when it was new, shoots two-inch groups now. Good enough for me.” Yes, he’s a stalker and his
target is the size of a donkey so no problem but, if you have a fine custom rifle and you want to maintain that quarter-minute accuracy, you need to keep it scrupulously clean. Removing the powder-fouling from a barrel is not too difficult - after a day’s shooting. Removing the copper- fouling is another matter entirely. All copper jacketed bullets will leave some residue in the bore – including moly-coated ones. The deposit may be insignificant – especially with a properly broken-in match barrel but, in extreme cases, copper build-up can be a major problem – even with a brand-new barrel.
Copper begets copper – if your bore is coppered-up it will attract more copper - from every bullet fired. Eventually, there will be so much copper in the bore that accuracy will have visibly deteriorated and furthermore, the copper will be very, very difficult to remove. Ideally, we do not want to reach this condition.
For this reason, I’m always on the look out for good copper solvents. In the UK, we were brought up on Sweets - an ammonia-based product from Australia. Not too many gunshops stock Sweets these days but it is always available from Fultons at Bisley – look for it in a black bottle with red top. I like Sweets – for me, it’s a sort of ‘benchmark’ – if I try a new copper- remover, is it better than Sweets? Few are. My own favourite cleaning products are Butch’s Bore Shine for the powder-fouling and Sweets for the copper. However, one or two other products have appeared recently. I’m very impressed with the Pro Shot Copper Remover. It’s imported by Hannam’s Reloading (along with the whole range of cleaning patches, brushes, jags etc.) and it is not ammonia based. For me, it’s every bit as good as Sweets. (www. hannamsreloading. com)
The other product I’ve used recently is Bore Tech Eliminator. Russell Simmonds has just started importing this from
America and we vigorously tested some samples last month. They offer two products. One is a dedicated copper solvent whilst the other is a general bore cleaner but believe me, this is also a very effective copper remover. I took a bottle of each to the World Benchrest Championships in August (courtesy of Russell Simmonds
www.simmondsreloading.com) and the whole team ended up using it!
The Bore Tech is so good that sceptical shooters – “I never get any copper out of my barrel” - believe the copper is coming off the brass jag but Bore Tech supply a ‘proof positive’ aluminium jag to dispel that one!
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