What cleaner do you use after firing corrosive ammo, that eliminates any and all corrosive properties?

Question

Thus making the ( weapon / barrel ) safe for storage.

can you recommend any good professional name brand cleaners?

Answer 1

Alway's use Hoppe's Number 9 (or similar product) after shooting. Even if it's non-corrosive always clean your rifle after a shooting session.

Answer 2

I use any generic Ammonia window cleaner.  Spray down barrel then clean as normal with solvent.  I also use Ballistol to coat my firearms for storage.  It's good stuff if you can find it.  My gunsmith swears by the stuff.

Answer 3

Regular tap water for the scrubbing then HOT water. The hot water heats up the metal and helps any remaining water evaporate. Dry with patches-compressed dry air and proceed to clean normally with Hoppes #9 or whatever you like.

Answer 4

Sounds like someone's discovered the joys of the Mosin-Nagant and military surplus ammunition... OK, here's the basics on corrosive ammunition. Most smokeless powder ammunition that was corrosive was so because of the potassium chlorate primers used. Potassium chlorate is a kind of salt. Like any salt it will rust metal. So what you need to do is find some way to dissolve the potassium chlorate and get it out of the barrel. There are various home remedies, but I've heard from old timers that hot water seems to work as well as anything.

When dealing with a gun that has fired something I figure will be corrosive, I generally simply stick the muzzle in a bucket of hot water, then run a patched cleaning rod through the breach and into the water, then pull the cleaning rod out slowly. The suction from the upstroke fills the barrel with water. Once its full (right before the patch hits the chamber), move the barrel away from the bucket and pull the patch into the chamber. This breaks the seal on the "water pump", and the water drains out of the barrel. Do this a couple times, then run dry patches through the gun and let it dry for a little while. Then clean it normally using a powder solvent and cleaning patches/wire brush.

Answer 5

Hoppe's No. 9 is a good quality solvent which will help remove just about any sort of corrosive residue. But as someone has said, a good, thorough hot-water rinse will do the job -- as long as you thoroughly clean the barrel before-hand and use a good quality oil after. A thorough cleaning job includes a lot of brush work and a lot of wiping; if there is anything on the "dry" swab after passing it through the barrel, even the tiniest little bit of discoloration, the barrel is not clean.

In the days before powder solvents were widely available, folks used just a brush and a boiling-water rinse, and then a coating of light oil in the barrel before putting up their guns.

Answer 6

Hot water. That's it, that's all you need.

I just blast hot water down the bore with a turkey baster a few times, dry, clean normally, and oil.

Water is not going to cause your bore to rust as you usually have to use somthing water based anyway to remove the salts, just be sure to oil when your done and check on it a few times for the next two days after you cleaned it. No rust and your good.

People do wet runs with windex, people use expensive solvents made to remove the salts, there is the method I use, everyone usually has their own method. And there all effective.

Edit: To people who don't know about corrosive ammo and there seems to be a few, listen now: Hoppes 9 DOES NOT remove the corrosive salts. And ammonia is bad for your bore. Yes, it can damage your bore if you let it sit and ammonia by itself also DOES NOTHING TO REMOVE THE SALTS! All it does is remove a little of the regular crud that build up when you shoot.

Answer 7

i have used wwII military bore cleaner for yrs to clean with after shooting corrosive ammo. it works great, but is getting hard to find these days. a good army surplus store should have some in stock. it comes in a little green can. for econimical purposes, the posters that said use hot water are correct. it will remove the salts that cause corrosion. i would then follow with hoppes #9 to clean any fouling left in the barrel. i have never had any rusting from using hoppes in a gunbarrel. it works great for cleaning the whole gun, not just the bore. its also a great cologne. I LOVE THE SMELL OF HOPPES #9!