hello ingo i bought a used 12 guage pump mossberg the barrel looks scarred from not being cleaned alot i almost used whole bottle of hoppes solvent and patches still coming out dirty? i need help on other solvent ideas to get this barrel clean please
Shotguns are tough.. heck, I've seen a few that looked really clean that were so covered with molten plastic that you'd think at first glance they were perfect! My shotguns don't get too dirty so I'm usually pretty good with oil only, but I'm sure some folks that do mroe serious shotgun shooting will be able to give you more info..
You might try Butch's Bore Shine. Works really well for all types of fouling. Here is also a trick that I use to get the crud out. Soak the bore for a while with the solvent then put your brass bore brush on the rod and wrap a patch around the brush. Soak the patch in solvent and brush out the bore. The patch picks up the crud that the brush removes.
I'd forgotten about Butch's Bore Shine.. a good friend of mine who has been a LE Firearms instructor about as long as I've been alive swears by that stuff..
bore snake & CLP is all you really need. who cares if a Mossberg 500 is up to WWII GI cleaning standards? yes, the barrel might be pitted in some spots. if it isn't enough to affect the structural integrity, who cares? that won't affect buck/birdshot accuracy.
If you're really worried about it, go buy a new barrel.
Are you letting the barrel soak any? Scrub the barrel, let it soak, go clean the bathroom or something, and then come back and push the paper towels through.
Are you letting the barrel soak any? Scrub the barrel, let it soak, go clean the bathroom or something, and then come back and push the paper towels through.
Plug one end of the barrel with a cork, stand it up and fill it with solvent, let it sit for 1 week, 2 days, 13 hours and 47 minutes. Wait. It's a shotgun. Unless it's rifled and you're pushing slugs or sabots out to 100yd, heck, even then, it'll be very forgiving. Just keep cleaning it after every use and eventually it'll get better.
you know i have to say out of all the advise though all good some bad thanks for everybody responding and thanks for those wise crackers as well i have to say im tied with soaking it in rise to corking one side of barrell filling it with solvent for 12 hours too funny but thanks ingo