Greets,
Took my rifle out today to resight the scope. Its a sporterized 30-06 Eddystone I got from my wifes brother when there mom passed on. used to be her dads and was neglected for years. When I first got it, I cleaned it up and hunted with it. After deer season I tore it down and reblued it. Well this is the first time I have fired it since. When I cleaned it, I ran a wet patch, ( Hoopes #9 ) then let it sit for a minute or so. I then scrubbed it with a bore brush, and commenced dry patching. This is how I was taught to clean a gun. When the dry partches came out clean, on a whim, instead of oiling it, I ran another solvent patch thru. Then I dry patched it again. The patch came out green!!! I rescrubbed and dry patched, then reapeated this several times over an hour period. Each time when done and the patches came clean, I solvent patched again and dry patched only to get green again.. The last time the dry patch came out clean I oiled her, and when the oil patch came thru clean called it good. I think there is till copper fouling in it, but dont know how to get it any cleaner than it is, any suggestions??

Just my uneducated opinion!
Terry