With the ammonium hydroxide based stuff, hope your wife isn't as picky as mine. She would tell me to wash my own dang clothes after using that smelly stuff! Good ole #9 Hoppes is about as far as she will tolerate the smelly stuff and that aint very smelly to me.

A lot of copper solvents have ammonia in them. Be very careful about your eyes.

I'm sure if I add a little chloride it'll make it less odious. ;)

Hoppes #9 is a gun cleaner? I thought it was a REAL mans cologne!!! :happy0001:
I personally use Hoppes for most of my general bore cleaning and Dewy rods. I have a rack that I hang them in when not in use in my shop. Handle up at top. When I am going to get serious such as on my bench guns, I use Butchs Bore Shine and back it up with Shooters Choice. Whether it works better or not, just me. I coat the barrel with a soaked patch, let sit for a bit, then run a Stainless brush for 5 passes, depending on how many rounds have been down the barrel since last cleaning or not been cleaned. Then nylon after that.

It strikes me how you can barely even find a three-piece brass rod, anymore---every available cleaning kit at most stores uses that awful aluminium three-piece that'll break into pieces the moment you run against any resistance.

Suggest you get a one piece rod.
There is some debate about which is best but most agree one piece is best I believe.

+ a bore guide.

My gunsmith tells me that most barrels are ruined from people who don't clean a barrel properly.

+ a bore guide.

My gunsmith tells me that most barrels are ruined from people who don't clean their barrel properly.