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Cleaning your inlines

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#1 ·
How clean are you guys getting your inlines after shooting... Is it you go till there is zero dirt on a wet patch. I can get it next to zero on a dry but still seem to have some dirt. I shoot white hots and you would think these things would clean easier.

Also, what are you methods for cleaning them?
 
#3 ·
I get mine spotless with only a handful of patches. Shooting 777 pellets.

between shots:
one wet patch in/out, flip, in/out
two dry in/out, flip, in/out for each

I just repeat this for a final cleaning until it's clean. usually less than 12 patches. I, of course, pull the breech plug for the final cleaning and scrub that and the chamber really well.

For long term in the cabinet I run an alcohol soaked patch down the bore and let it dry out. It pulls any moisture out and there's no oxidation to take place. I've stored with bore butter in the past and end up with a coat of surface rust in the bore. Not damaging mind you, but rust nonetheless and I don't want it there.
 
#8 ·
I have a stainless TC Omega. I clean it by removing the breach plug and putting the hose from the basement sink in the back and turning on the water. It gets out most of the 777 powder. Then I run several patches thru until they come out dry. I finish by cleaning the breach plug and running a patch of bore butter thru the barrel.
 
#14 ·
"T-7 and Pyro...Windex w/Vinegar(comes ammonia free). Best thing i found to quickly break that stubborn T-7 crud ring!"

+1

i've been using Windex with vinegar (Now called Windex Multi Task) to clean my BP guns for many years. It's the very best stuff for getting the bore and breechplug clean. The acid in the vinegar dissolves the base that is the fouling.

Before leaving the firing range i run a patch wet with Windex with vinegar down the bore and leave it wet. At home another wet patch followed by two or three dry patches gets the bore squeaky clean. This is followed by patch moistened with CLP or oil.

It takes about one minute to clean up a breechplug.
Spray Windex with vinegar on the breechplug and brush the crud away with an old toothbrush.

Windex with vinegar contains about three percent vinegar, it will not hurt your gun. i use it on my antique Winchester rifles. It works equally well on BP, Pyrodex, JSG, APP, Pinnacle, Black Mag 3 and 777.
 
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