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Originally Posted by Gil Martin
For years i have been using brushes, solvent, lead wiping cloth, J B Bore Cleaner and even fine steel wool trying to get shotgun bores really clean. After a lot of time and effort there were varying degrees of success. Now I have settled on using Remington Bore Cleaner on a strip of cloth cloth wrapped around a snug-fitting brush. Run it back and forth through the bore about twenty times. That is followed with a cloth with solvent, then a dry cloth and finally and oil/grease cloth. The Remington Bore Cleaner removes, rust, fouling, leading, plastic and whatever else is in the bore. Works for me. All the best...
Gil
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There really is no need to get a shotgun bore squeaky clean unless it is a rifled barrel and you need extreme accuracy for some reason. I shoot thousands of rounds through a shotgun and merely run a bore snake through it with some Hoppes solvent on it. The one place I need to pay a lot of attention is the gas ports on my semis, but there I don't clean them through the bore but with a small .22 cal brush right through the gas port.
Over cleaning a shotgun barrel can cause more damage than benefit.