I have an old rifle that was given to me that was in very bad shape. The person that gave it to me fouled the barrel and then never cleaned it for months. And of course it was badly rusted inside the bore. And outside the bore.

Today I wanted to test what the Montana X-treme products could do for that barrel. I first ran a Windex patch down the barrel and it came up with a clean patch. So I followed the directions of Montana X-treme.

I took a cleaning jag and patch. I saturated the patch with Montana X-treme Cowboy Solvent. I swabbed the bore with that patch. It came up gray....

I then according to directions, took a bore brush and dipped it in the Cowboy solvent and gave the bore ten strokes. I dipped again, and gave it ten more. I continued this for 50 strokes with a bore brush.

I then took a patch saturated in Cowboy Solvent and swabbed the bore. It came out of that bore I am embarrassed to say, black. The fouling that the brush and solventpulled out of that barrel was impressive. I saturated another patch and continued to swab out the bore. The patches got progressively cleaner until finally they did come out clean. It took four patches.

I then patched the bore dry. And applied a patch with Montana X-treme Bore Conditioner. I dropped a bore light down the bore and I must say, the barrel is pitted, but it actually was trying to shine. I think a few more applications like already done might bring that old barrel back to some life.

It is a good shooting rifle with 70 grains of powder and a patched ball, so it will be interesting to see what happens to the rifle in the future.

I then decided to risk a White Ultra Mag barrel. I knew this barrel is clean. But I decided to treat it as if it were an unknown barrel. So I took the rifle apart and swabbed the bore with Cowboy solvent. Then took a brush and gave it thirty strokes (as I was sure it was clean). The next solvent patch came up with a little fowling. I suspect lead. I was surprised. So I ran another through and it came up clean. I then dry patched it. And then ran Bore Conditioner through it. Looking through that Ultra Mag bore, it shines like a mirror.

According to Don at Western Powder.. those that shoot BlackHorn and have carbon build up on the breech plugs, some scotch brite and cowboy solvent will take that carbon off the plugs.