shotgun cleaning advice

Skeet guns and hunting shotguns are different animals. Some of my friends spens as much as five or six thousand dollars for their skeet guns. A pump, auto, bolt, or breakover shotgun mean to be a game getter is not so fussy and specialized. Most cost between $100-400 and are well enough made to last an avid hunter decades, an occasional hunter a lifetime. I wouldn't drive a Ferarri down a gravel road either, but my truck has certainly logged some miles on them. In fact, the gravel road is high cotton compared to the jeep trails and logging roads.
 
I recently had to deal with a very large amount of lead fouling after shooting a bunch of very hot reloads that had paper wads instead of shot cups. I scrubbed and scrubbed with a plastic brush and Hoppes #9, and got nowhere. So I got some Butch's Bore Shine and a bronze brush, and it came out with a little elbow grease. And when I was done, I didn't get any color at all on the patches, unlike my normal cleaning sessions that never seem to get all of the crud out of the bore.

If it is a nice shotgun, you don't want to use any abrasive cleaner (like JB Bore Cleaner) or anything else that could scratch up the mirror bore. If it already has a beat up bore, then it doesn't really matter.
 
SPXTrader said:
I've been an avid skeet shooter for about 25 years now. I'd never put a slug thru my Krieghoffs, much less my Red Labels. Just my $ .02........
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DAAAANNNNG, That is a tall horse your on, climb on down here with the rest of us Thurston Howell the 3rd.

Slugs won't hurt your Rugers or Kreighofs any more than they hurt my Merkels and Perazzis. The myth about shooting the choke out goes back to the days of punkin balls, round lead balls nearly bore size, and has nothing to do with modern designed slugs. Chris
 
runningboar, NICE guns! I'd love to have a Merkel 303EL...

Sorry, I really didn't mean to come off like J Paul Gotrocks...but I did spend a LOT for the Krieghoffs, two sets, different grades, all 4 matched barrel sets. ONLY used for skeet. The Red Labels are my bird guns and some SC's, but the closest SC range went "private", so so much for that. They are used as often as I can! Also have a matched pair of Red Label 50th anniversary Editions, 12 and 20. They have never been fired, and I don't intend on firing them at all. Investment pieces only.

For slugs (deer), it's the Remington 870 Magnum (3") Special Purpose. Fully parkerized, 20" rifled barrel, Burris 3X9 mid-length eye relief shotgun scope, sling, all the good stuff. Don't like to even think about pulling the trigger...the SOB kicks worse than a mule. I had a LEO friend of mine sight it in at the police range. I gave him 25 sabot 1 oz slugs in the 3" mag load. He brought it back in short order, with only 7 slugs missing. I asked how it was, and he rubbed his shoulder and said "close enough"!

On the other hand, I've also got a few beaters...older 870's, 1100's...Down here in the mountains you can't help but collect guns! They're everywhere, and someone's always needing a little extra cash.

Man, I can't help collecting stuff...I'm addicted to it! I thought I was finished with the drug, but now it's knives!

SO, back to my reason for this post...I'm not bragging, I have tended to acquire a lot of stuff in 50 some years...some bought, some inherited, and some traded for.

Please accept my humble apology.

Thanks,
Brad
 
Absolutely no apology needed, Codger actually said things better than I could, as usual. Different guns for different purposes, I would not shoot slugs through high end guns either, not because it will hurt them, but because I don't deer hunt with my bird guns.

PS: I don't really own Merkels and Perazzis I was just name dropping :o I do have a very nice Verona and a Silma however. The guns that get the most use are my trap grade 1187 and my old single shot.:p

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that's what a solvent is for. Spray a little bore cleaner down there, let it work, run the bore snake through a couple times and you're done.
 
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