Cleaning after shooting corrosive ammo what's your trick?

[orca2726]

Blue Wonder gun cleaner gel. It is water based and you can use it like normal bore cleaner. I no longer mess with
hot water and funnels. Use with an old toothbrush on bolt face and gas pistons.
Just my 2 cents worth.

[Varmintpopper]

After firing corrosive primers while in the Military we took the weopon into the Shower with Us ( minus the wood) and scrubbed the intire thing with hot water, after it dried we then cleaned as normal.

Good Shooting

Lindy

[OD#3]

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Ballistol. It is all I use now for non-corrosive, corrosive, and blackpowder ammunition cleanup.. With non-corrosive ammunition, it cleans the smokeless residue as well as Hoppes. It isn't as aggressive or fast with the copper fouling as Hoppes, but it will do just as well given a little more time. It is a water soluble, so it mixes readily with water, making a solution known as "moose milk". I've used it as strong as 50/50, but many people use as little as 1 part Ballistol to 7 parts water. "Moose milk" readily dissolves the salts from chloride primers as well as black powder fouling.

After scrubbing the bore with "moose milk", I usually follow up with straight Ballistol to both attack copper fouling and to soak up any remaining moisture. That moisture soon evaporates, leaving a corrosion resistant film of oil behind. It has a strong anise odor, which some find objectionable. But I actually like the smell. It is also non-toxic and washes off the hands easily.

[dave]

Not a lot of corrosive US ammo left any more. I still have an un-opened WW11 GI cleaner qt. purchased at a gun shop in the '50's. Used that much and more back in those days. Nothing else, never a rusted bore. I love the smell!

[jjrothWA]

When I bought my M39-2 in the 70's, about a month later found a shop that had
a 100 count box of 9mm FMJ, bought it and saw it was GECO about mid-50's headstamp.
Called the shop and confirm that they thought it was corrosive and yes the best way to clean was
hot soapy water and followed up with regular Hoppe's cleaner and oiled.
Still taking it out to the range look great as the day I bought. Only think I kick myself about is not buying the Ithaca 1911 the dealer was selliing for $150.

[Sportsdad60]

Thompson Center T17 Black Powder bore SOLVENT.
This stuff is environmentally safe and works great IMO.

[Johnny P]

The ammonia in the Windex only dilutes the water. It is the water that dissolves the salts.

[Allen]

The ammonia in the Windex only dilutes the water. It is the water that dissolves the salts.

When I worked at the refinery some of our large hydrogen compressors would salt up. When suction pressures would drop off we would remove the spool piece on the suction side of the compressors. Inside was a screen that would be salted up due to the process that it was used for. We would spray the screen with water using a fire hose and the salts would quickly dissolve. Then we would air dry using a large air hose @150psi and place everything back into service.

I don't see firearms being any different except perhaps helping the cleaning along with a bore brush afterward giving the gun a coat of WD-40 to displace any left over water and finally putting on a coat of oil or protective coating of your choice. It's the way I do it anyway. I consider any foreign ammo (even the new stuff) that is berdan primed to be corrosive no matter what is stated on the box and treat it as such.