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what to use to clean shotgun barrel?
i recently purchased a new shotgun, smooth bore, and some winchester rifled slugs made for a smooth bore shotgun. yesterday, i shot about 9 slugs out of it target shooting to get use to the gun. when i went to clean the gun later that day, i was shocked by how dirty the barrel was. i ran a brush through it and plenty of cleaner, but it still doesn't look smooth. as i was cleaning it, it looks like scratches or scuffs inside the barrel but they seemed to get less as i continued to clean. i believe the barrel is chrome lined. has anyone had this problem? what do you use to clean your barrel after shooting slugs?
Alright. I've answered this question many times before, and I will answer it again. This is not my advice, but rather, this is the advice of a man that I once knew for many years, who was an internationlly ranked shotgun shooter and was also the Captain of the US Olympic Shooting Team.
When it comes to cleaning a shotgun barrel, you really don't have to bother too much. A shotgun barrel is nothing more than a "piece of pipe". There is no rifling or anything that must impart a spin on a bullet. It's just a piece of pipe that the shot and wad travels down and that's that.
For cleaning a shotgun barrel, all you need to do is run a patch through the bore with some simple gun cleaning solvent, like Hoppe's No. 9. Then a couple of dry patches. Then a final patch with some light lubricant on it. (And when I speak of "patches", this means any kind of clean soft cotton cloth...like an old torn-up tshirt.)
The only reason to even bother doing any of this is to get the powder residue out of the barrel. Modern day smokeless powders do not attract moisture like the older "black powder" did. But, it will attract some moisture...and that can possibly lead to rust in the bore of your gun. So, to preserve the bore of your shotgun, it's good to clean it as mentioned above, if you plan to store the gun for longer than a week.
As for the marks and scratchs inside the bore. That is probably some lead fouling from the relatively soft lead that the slugs use. Is it a big deal? Not at all. Again, your shotgun is smoothbored and does not need to be cleaned in the same manner as a rifle in order to keep the rifling clean.
Again. This is not my advice, but the advice of someone that knows a lot better than I did, and was able to share his wisdom with me and others.
EDIT: To the guy below. The only time I have experienced plastic wad residue was when I reloaded my own ammo and shot those cheap claybuster wads. I've been reloading and shooting from age 14 to age 44 and in 30 years of shooting, I have only experienced plastic inside the bore of my shotgun when using those cheap wads. When using Remington or Winchester wads, it's never happened. Also, I was once asked to "torture test" a shotgun for a gun company with some other individuals. We spent a day shooting CASES of factory loaded ammo (Federal, Winchesters, Remington). The point was to never clean the gun and see if we could make them malfuction by either getting them too dirty or having parts break from extreme use. Afterward, we inspected the guns, cleaned them, and inspected them again. There was no such thing as plastic wad build-up in the bores of those shotguns from using factory loaded ammo.
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