Is using Iosso bore cleaner ok to remove rust and crud that normal cleaning won't??

[doubleset]

I put bacon fat on my cast iron, and never had rust. But won’t put it on a gun

Maybe because your gun isn't cast iron? Good decision.

 

[hinamanra]

If the rust is bad, as in you can't get it cleaned out with a bore brush. I've used evaporust that worked really well on a nasty looking barrel that I cleaned up for a friend that neglected it. When I first saw it. I thought that there is no way this is going to give a desent group again so with nothing to loose, I filled the barrel, let it sit 24 hours, dumped it then scrubbed the barrel with soap and water. Then I polished it with JB bore polish for a couple of hours and cleaned it again. We got 4" 5 shot groups out of it at 50 yards. If we would have work a little more on a load it may have tightened up some, it'll was good enough for him to take a deer.

 

[Steel Guitar]

I just can't use bacon fat for these reasons:
1 My wife won't let me have it because she makes food taste so good with it.
2 I worried that if I used it and smelled bacon after every shot my time at the range would be drastically cut short because I would get hungry and go straight home!

 

[doubleset]

I wonder if anyone has used anchovy oil. It has many of those properties of bacon oil with even a more impressive taste. Maybe that would be going a bit far. On the other hand, it might work like whale oil. Sardine oil might work too, but without the subtle flavoring of the anchovy.

 

[tenngun]

I wonder if anyone has used anchovy oil. It has many of those properties of bacon oil with even a more impressive taste. Maybe that would be going a bit far. On the other hand, it might work like whale oil. Sardine oil might work too, but without the subtle flavoring of the anchovy.

Deer in the woods
‘What’s that noise?
My chest hurts
ummmm something taste good, sorta fishy
Hmmm I hear singing what’s that bright light?”

 

[BlackRock52]

Hello,
Is using Iosso bore cleaner ok to remove rust and crud that normal cleaning won't??

I have used it for that very purpose on a couple of guns I have obtained &/or asked to help out someone. It's a bit like toothpaste. It's a polishing substance with some grit -- very fine. I use it by rubbing on a cotton bore mop. Then back and forth to desired result. Brownells sell a proprietary product -- JB Bore Bright ultra fine bore polish. Think of these like rubbing compound and the 'grit' in JB's is even more fine than the Iosso bore paste. Others use Big 45 Frontier Metal Cleaner. Looks like a dish scrubber only not brass. You cut off a few strands and wrap around a mop or they recommend a brush and then back and forth. Says will remove rust and not bluing. I've used it but prefer a bore paste polisher. When I am happy with the result then use your favorite storage product (CLP) and then a dry patch....done. I gauge the effect with a bore-scope.
Added benefit ... virtually no odor and some of those copper/rust removing chemicals are strong smelling and not friendly to skin

 

[Graybeard2A]

Every ml has their own best way, and all are the best. I would take care with hydrogen peroxide. H2O2. Water is H2O. An oxygen atom with two hydrogen atoms bound to it. Peroxide binds another oxygen atom. It’s loosely bound. That’s where he foam comes from.
to clean with it the extra oxygen atom breaks off, and the out gassing loosens crud, the extra oxygen can bind with carbon and makes it easy to break crud out.
However oxygen binds with iron and steel real well creating rust.
Use caution when using it in a barrel

THANKS' for taking me to school! I had no idea it would cause rust

 

[Henry Miles]

To answer the original question, Yes...

 

[doubleset]

THANKS' for taking me to school! I had no idea it would cause rust

It's hopeless.

 

[N.Y. Yankee]

I have bought used guns that were cleaned but not greased well in the bore so they had some surface rust there. I used a .50 cal bronze brush in a .54 to scrub it with some naval jelly and I think 28 gauge(?) in the .50's to do the same. let sit for a while, then a good regular cleaning and oiling. It seemed to work well. The Hoppe's bronze brushes are cheap, use once and they are pretty much trashed so I just toss them. Got rid of the rust. Those brushes should work just fine on fouling if it is that bad. As said above, (once you get it clean) clean it right in the first place and you won't get a buildup or rust. Use a good gun oil in the bore, no matter what you have been told about petroleum products, and just swab with Iso Alcohol before loading. You will be good to go.

 

[Tenring]

Dish Soap and Hot Water Dry Thoroughly Follow up with Your Brand of Oil.

 

[deerstalkert]

It's hopeless.

what do each have in common? Opinions .

 

[gunpa]

It seems the op's question got lost a few times.

 

[SPQR70AD]

just read their pimping page. seems you can use it for anything, hair gel, underarm deodorant, foot fungus, frying chicken etc.
should be safe for a muzzleloader bore. test it for us and give a first hand report!

tell you what when moly bullets first came out for the unmentionables my rifle got clogged up with it and had horrible accuracy. I tried every cleaner known to man even acetone paint thinners etc. losso was the only cleaner that got it out. I know it means nothing to a ML maybe but it has some wicked cleaner ingredients

 

[doubleset]

what do each have in common? Opinions .

Everybody's got opinions. A lot of them are right. A lot of them are wrong. But it's the stubbornly held and defended ones lacking any objective basis that seem to be the most resistant.

 

[Buckskinquin]

Hello,
Is using Iosso bore cleaner ok to remove rust and crud that normal cleaning won't??

Its a light grade valve grinding compound that will clean your bore used properly. Or buy some valve grinding compound and use it. I have used both to clean difficult bores.

 

[Buckskinquin]

I wonder if anyone has used anchovy oil. It has many of those properties of bacon oil with even a more impressive taste. Maybe that would be going a bit far. On the other hand, it might work like whale oil. Sardine oil might work too, but without the subtle flavoring of the anchovy.

Find another sight for your adolscent comments. Geesh, get a life.

 

[doubleset]

Find another sight [sic] for your adolscent [sic] comments. Geesh, get a life.

From someone who recommends VALVE GRINDING COMPOUND for CLEANING a bore? Did I somehow blow by any sense of humor you might have? Sorry.

Maybe find another site for your misspellings and language misuse?

 

[Steel Guitar]

I appreciate all of the comments because even if they don't exactly answer my question I'm still learning from yall (you guys) and yall make me feel like one of this great group. Thanks yall

 

[deerstalkert]

it's a great place!




if you wear cast iron underwear. no matter the subject or what you say, it seems someone will be along to take a bite out of your butt!
getting tiresome, all the pizzing matches.