Barnes Clean-up
 

After shooting about 40 Barnes X bullets through my rifle I sat down tonight to clean it. I scrubed for an hour with copper solvent and bronze brush but there still seems to be steaks of at least copper coloring in the bore. Do I need to clean some more or is there going to be traces of copper coloring no matter what? Has anyone used the Barnes copper slovent?

RE: Barnes Clean-up
 

Plug the chamber with a collapsible ear plug and get a can of wipeout and give it a one second spray to fill the bore.....Let it sit over night.Run a fresh dry patch through the barrel and retry to use the sweets and brush....all copper should be gone by now.

May I ask what kind of barrel you have?

RE: Barnes Clean-up
 

I use Barnes CR-10 every time I clean my guns to remove the copper. Do not use a bronze brush use a nylon one. The bronze brush you are using is leaving the streaks because it contains copper. Good luck.

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Ditto on handloaders response and suggestion, try some CR10 and forget the brush.

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I have alot of trouble shooting Barnes. I have to use wipeout in two or three settings. One being overnight. And then finish up with sweets. Thats the reason I don't shoot them anymore. I quit using bronze brushes unless for shotgun. Now I use the Nylon. They are hard to find but worth it. I think brownells sells them.

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While we are on this subject has anyone heard of Coppermelt you can look it up at [link]http://www.coppermelt.com[/link] The price of this stuff is crazy I wonder if this is a scam or if this is a quality product. Everytime I start loading bullets that foul badly I usually run my Outers Foul out III on the barrel so every last bit of copper is gone...

RE: Barnes Clean-up
 

I've never used Barnes bullets but i have good luck removing copper with Shooters Choice copper solvent. I also use the nylon brushes that bigcountry mentioned and they work fine but they do wear pretty fast so when i find some i ususally by 4 or 5 at a time.

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Thanks a lot for the info. I have used Barnes bullets for a long time. Never noticed before how hard it was to gey the copper out. This gun is a Remington with the stock Remingtom barrel. I might give up on the Barnes bullets as well. I really like thier performance but it may not be worth the trouble. I have not tried the coated ones yet as I had trouble with some of the early coated bullets fouling with the coating stuff. Thanks again.

RE: Barnes Clean-up
 

If you're thinking of giving uo the Barnes-x you might try the Nosler Ballistic tips, no excessive fouling and great game performance.

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I love the Nosler Ballistic tip as well. I load them in my 250.

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BTW why are you using the Barnes-x?? Just out of curiosity, I hear they do not over expand or fragment and probably shine on targets that require deep penetration (big bears?).

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That is why I like them. Nothing penetrates like the X bullet. I have shot about 25 deer with them and recovered only one. That one a 100 grain X from the 250 Savage that bullet traveled the complete lenght of the deer and was peeled baxk just exactly the pictures they show. I may have to try the coated ones.

RE: Barnes Clean-up
 

Everyone I know is having great luck with the triple shocks. Still coppers a little but alot less finicky than old naked barnes. But they are expensive.

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I may try those too. I see Midway finally has accubonds in 308. Been wanting to try the as well. Just couldn't find any. If I get the rifles cleaned up good then stay on top of things I will most likely not have much trouble.

I am in contact with the original owner/Inventor of coppermelt. He has for some reason or other been running undercover.

If anyone has an interest in using coppermelt, I'm sure we can get some bottles out to you. Apparently, the product works like a charm,as i have been told, but production has suffered and supply is almost non existant. I do not know the formula, nor want to, so please be aware of this. i am only a go between for the time being.

pm me, and I will see what I can do for you.

Thanks