Originally Posted by sabotloader

First of I really want you all to know that I am totally biased about this subject, but I am going to mention something that I have found.

I really dislike cleaning the bore after shooting BH - for me it is a much longer process than cleaning after shooting T7.

I have/had been using Hoppe's #9 Bore Solvent in the past, following directions on the bottle - running patch after patch saturating the patch and running it in the bore until they come out some what clean... For me it has taken a bunch of patches and I never really seem to be happy with the color of the patches.

The last three times that i have shot BH - I gave up on the Hoppe's and switched to using Tipton's Bore Solvent. For some reason this solvent seems to work much faster in cleaning the bore. It only takes a 2-3 patches and they are coming out nearly white. Then a couple of dry patches patches followed by 2 Montana X-Treme patches and I am now really happy with to looks of the patches.

I THINK part of the problem with Hoppe's is that it contains 40% Kerosene and 40% Ethyl Alcohol, 5% Ammonium Hydroxide. In effect a big part of the solvent is just Kerosene oil.

Tipton Bore Solvent or Barnes CR-10, neither of these contain Kerosene. They are much less oily than the Hoppe's, and seem to me to a faster job of cleaning. Looking at the contents of each of these solvents - I do not see any form of oil in the product.

All of these solvents contain chemicals harmful to your health so handle them with caution.

Just passing on some observations - not really sure what they mean, but I will continue using something other than Hoppe's.