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Between a run in barrel and a new one illustrated in copper blue!

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Run I as in well used. Not starting a do you or don't you run in new barrels debate. Done to death
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this is the throat on my 7mm after 61 rounds and a quick clean with hoppe's 9 and 3 patches and there ain't no copper in this barrel .

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Copper you blokes have got no idea wait till I get home and upload a pic from the Sako 300
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First two and there was probably 10 after that showed copper.God only knows(sorry James) if had ever seen Sweets or any sort of solvent.
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How different is sweet's to hoppes 9??

I've never seem my barrels come out that dirty?
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There is a lot of difference, Sweets has ammonia in it and is a hell of a lot better at getting copper out. I used hopes 9 for years then got educated it dose not move hopper like sweets that's for sure.


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Then your not dissolving the copper
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Flip wrote:There is a lot of difference, Sweets has ammonia in it and is a hell of a lot better at getting copper out. I used hopes 9 for years then got educated it dose not move hopper like sweets that's for sure.


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it does out of my barrels you just need to know how to use it , but the new recipe ain't as good as the old stuff

in the glass bottles .
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Yeah if you leave it in for few day at a time!

I use Hoppes No9 to neutralize the sweets!

It smells good though!

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Glenn wrote:Yeah if you leave it in for few day at a time!

I use Hoppes No9 to neutralize the sweets!

It smells good though!

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Thats it ya get home put a patch through put it in the safe muzzle down and the next day another patch

and look at all the blue shit .

i did this for my 6X45 barrel for 9000 rounds and it still holds 3/4 MOA not great i grant you but good enough

for roos .
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I love the smell of Hoppes no9

I wish someone would bring it out as an aftershave
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MISSED wrote:I love the smell of Hoppes no9

I wish someone would bring it out as an aftershave
It would probably make a better aftershave than a bore solvent.

To be honest it is difficult to see copper in a moderately clean barrel with the naked eye. Put a bore scope down there and it is immediately obvious.
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