How is everyone cleaning their 6.5 grendel barrel?

[JuanC]

I've always used bore snakes and had good luck with never a problem. I've done some reading and it seems the bore snakes aren't good for barrels really. What is everyone's go to method for cleaning their barrels. Looking for ideas and products to try out. Thanks.

[mdram]

bronze brush, patches, and good ole hoppes 9

why fix it if it aint broke?

[wraith1516]

A good one piece rod quality jag and solvent of choice

[hikfromstik]

bronze brush, patches, and good ole hoppes 9

why fix it if it aint broke?

Ditto on the hoppes #9 . Gotta get me a bore guide on my next midway/brownells order . I also clean my carrier and bolt with sea foam top engine cleaner in spray can from time to time . It will blast the carbon fouling fast .

[Cockednlocked]

I just keep shootin'.

Pushes the dirt out the end of the barrel.

[Texas]

I just keep shootin'.

Pushes the dirt out the end of the barrel.

I clean the barrel only if there appears to be an accuracy problem, the bolt and carrier are a completely different story.

[BluntForceTrauma]

I clean with bore snakes. Guess I'm not too picky?

[SightedIn]

Light bronze brush, Clp, patches, more Clp

[scroder]

Might be a silly question, but I have a 6.5 creedmoor and just purchased a 6.5 grendel AR. I have all the rods/tips for the creed. Will they work fine for the grendel?

[diddlyv]

Yes same bore same brush. Always clean from Chamber end. A bore guide is a good idea as well. Always clean rod before rifle.

[Rickc]

Boretech eliminator is my bore cleaner of choice with all my rifles. Their cleaning rod, jags and nylon brushes. No bronze. It will give a false positive on the presence of copper with the eliminator. And a good bore guide and you are good to go.

I clean every time i use a gun. It is the way i was raised and i feel guilty if i don't and i am 62 years old

[Buck2732]

Boretech eliminator is my bore cleaner of choice with all my rifles. Their cleaning rod, jags and nylon brushes. No bronze. It will give a false positive on the presence of copper with the eliminator. And a good bore guide and you are good to go.

I clean every time i use a gun. It is the way i was raised and i feel guilty if i don't and i am 62 years old

Just to divert the thread for a second. With my .303 I always pore a gallon of boiling water through the bore. My dad always did it, as did his. They both served when .303 was in service over here. It ensures that the corrosive element from the primer, A, has had enough water to not cause a problem. Then B, you have flushed it out. Like the poster above I would feel guilty if I failed to do it, even though I now use non-corrosive primers.

As for everything else a bore snake then a light oil. Until I think accuracy is going off then a full clean. After which it can take up to 50rnds to settle down once more.

[Klem]

I don't clean as much as I used to. Thanks to the military hammering us to clean every time it took a while to shake that dogma and stop feeling guilty but I am glad it's gone.

I only clean every 200rds now and this number is growing. I also don't clean for copper anymore, only carbon. The recent wisdom of wanting to leave any copper in the barrel's micro pores makes sense to me. It certainly hasn't diminished accuracy to leave it in there and saved a lot of effort and no doubt barrel life.

I start by short-stroking the barrel with Butch's Bore Shine on a brass brush and then wash that it out with a decent spray of WD40 and then dry patches. I don't keep patching it until the patches are clean, just dry and most of the gunk is out. Then a patch with Sweets Oil to finish to prevent corrosion, only in case it ends up being left unfired for a while otherwise I don't even do that.

Cleaning before firing is a pass with a boresnake, more to check there's nothing there. It then takes a few rounds to settle back into the last zero.

I pay attention to the gun safes with anti-corrosion capsules from Zerust and dehumidifiers (I live near the coast). I figure if the storage environment is sound then that helps as well.

[lwminton]

Boretech eliminator is my bore cleaner of choice with all my rifles. Their cleaning rod, jags and nylon brushes. No bronze. It will give a false positive on the presence of copper with the eliminator. And a good bore guide and you are good to go.

I clean every time i use a gun. It is the way i was raised and i feel guilty if i don't and i am 62 years old

I spray the barrel with Wipe Out before I case the rifle at the range. By the time I get home, it has done the job and I just push it out with a few patches. If you want it spanking clean, Bore Tech is the choice. Just remember you have to foul the barrel with at least 15 rounds after Bore Tech if you are going to a match. A squeaky clean barrel has a changed point of impact by as much as 2" at 300 yards in my experience. Experiment with this and you will see it move.

[howl]

Wipe-out and patches on a one piece rod with jag. I don't see the point in getting it squeaky just to have to get it a little dirty to settle back into shooting.