WIPE OUT WIPE OUT 5OZ BORE CLEANER

In a word: Magnificent! With a couple caveats, but they are small complaints that mean nothing really, and if I improve my cleaning technique I'm sure I can overcome these. Read on if you want to know what I think. Not that the other 30+ positive reviews (at the time of this writing) haven't convinced you already. Or maybe they haven't... I took the challenge listed on the can, and got out a R700 in .308 with a chrome-moly barrel I had cleaned recently. There were copper streaks at the muzzle end of the rifling, indicating copper fouling in the bore. Over the last 12 years I have owned this rifle no matter how much I scrubbed with brushes or patches, with solvents that claimed to remove copper, I could never get all the copper out. All my patches kept coming out blue no matter how many solvent patches I sent down the bore or how long I let it soak (although you really can't let the bore soak too long with the harsh bore cleaners). Yes, I know about the bronze brush dilemma causing blue streaks, I used nylon brushes and jags to be sure. I resigned myself to cleaning it best I could. In putting this product to the test I set the rifle in a cleaning brace almost horizontally, with the muzzle slightly lower than the chamber and a drip catch pan. I wanted to go chamber to muzzle, as I was always taught, to keep solvent out of the action. I put the included straw into the nozzle of the can, and removed the black "cone" thing from it. We come now to my first caveat. When I squirted this stuff into the chamber, having nothing to block the foaming action from expanding in any direction was a mistake. It expanded and expanded! Even though I had run the straw down the chamber as far as I could, I had a mess of foam in the loading port and back through the bolt recess, and down into the magazine. I dropped the floor plate and I cleaned it out before it could "melt" into the action, but then I noticed something. No foam had come out the muzzle. Upon inspection, the foam had only made it about two-thirds the way down the 24" bore. That is my second caveat. I tried to yet again squirt more into the chamber, but hydro-lock from the expanding foam was keeping it from pushing anything more down the bore - and creating more of a mess coming back to the action. So I went to the muzzle end and shot another blast in there till foam started running out that end. I believe it did get the foam into the entire run of the bore. I say that because WOW! After waiting the requisite hour, I ran a tight patch down the bore. The amount of blue on that first patch was amazing! I never got that result with any of the other "bore cleaners" I had tried, and believe me my cleaning cabinet looks like a store shelf at Bass Pro or Cabella's with all the different cleaners in there. The instructions said if that patch came out "royal blue", to send another blast of foam down the bore and this time let it sit longer, maybe overnight. I did so and let it sit for 16 hrs. till I got to it next day. When I did, I again had a patch full of royal blue copper residue! I decided to go a third time, and let it sit only another hour again. This time the patch came out almost clean, very little blue at all. Inspecting the bore with bore light (I don't have a scope) revealed a bright, shiny, almost store-brand-new condition. Not a hint of copper color anywhere! For the first time since I bought the rifle I could clearly see the rifling cuts at the muzzle end, and see down to the root of the grooves. Apparently I had so much fouling in the corners of the grooves that I had effectively lost my rifling! Even after all that brushing and solvent cleaning over the years. But this brought it back! All that with no hard work brushing, no worrying I'm gonna corrode the steel with a harsh chemical, no need to buy any fancy gear for an electrolysis cleaning. I'm a-like'n this! Bonuses: - The can says that no oil is needed after using it, as there are corrosion inhibitors left in the bore after you patch it out. So no having to oil the bore, then patching it out at the range before shooting. - Also it claims there are no first-shot fliers, or any need to take a "fouler shot" or two to get the barrel to settle back to a good grouping after cleaning. I have not tested either of these claims yet, but since they weren't lying about the cleaning action, I have no reason to doubt these claims either. However I will test them and report back. Even if these latter claims are not found to be as true, I still have a new - and permanent favorite - bore cleaner: Wipe-Out FTW! UPDATE: After a range trip where I put over 50 rounds through slow fire, I noted the following: - The bore did not need a patch out at the range, it appeared dry and clean. If there is a residual protectant in the bore, I can't see it, I'll just have to trust it's there. - There was no "first shot flyer", no need for a "fouling shot". Everything I sent downrange went where the barrel was pointed (no wind that day). - I left the cleaning till I got home. I had acquired a Lyman universal bore guide to protect from the mess last time. I had to plug the solvent hole in that with a piece of tape, but it worked as advertised this time using the black plastic "cone" accessory. Almost all the foam went down the bore, and came out the muzzle end - provided I kept pressur on the cone end to try to seal the injection of foam. - Despite the above, I still had a little foam "backwash" out the free end of the bore guide, but it was not in the action. - It again worked as advertised, it took two 1-hour cleanings and it was clean again. - I also ran another .308 rifle through the cleaning, this one with a chrome-lined bore. It did clean out copper, and the first couple cleanings had royal blue patches, but it was still showing little signs of blue even after my 3rd overnight soak. I am not sure what the issue is but maybe this gun has copper embedded in one place so deeply that the Wipe-Out can only remove the top layer at a time? Anyway, my confidence in the product remains. I forgot to mention that in all these processes of cleaning, I got the cleaner all over the synthetic stock, plastic handguards, the innards of the fire control, the floor in the garage, the cleaning fixture, my hands and arms, and some on my clothing. None of these things is damaged or fouled in any way for it, especially my hands - of which I have had chem-burns before from gun cleaners, it's no fun.

Excellent product!Truly the best bore cleaner period.

First off, this product works amazing well and really goes after the copper and other fouling. This is the first time I have ever used this product or any product designed to remove copper so I don't have any perspective of other products claiming to do the same. Having said that, this product really works. Used this on a friends 1952 30-30 of which he only know 40 years of its history. Anyway after looking at the barrel with a bore scope he saw that the barrel had some pitting in the bore and a good amount of copper and other fouling. Which was surprising because this rifle was always cleaned and oiled. It is interesting to note that he used Hoppes #9 on it a multiple times and in fact, the last cleaning before he put it away had used a bronze bore brush and Hoppes #9 on it and the patches all came out clean. Two lessons, even though patches come out clean, doesn't mean the bore is really clean. The other, ignorance is bliss and a bore scope is both a blessing and a curse. Were guessing that perhaps at some time in the early history of this rifle someone used cartridges with corrosive primers or something and didn't clean it thoroughly enough. He saw no evidence of active rust or corrosion. We decided to clean this bore back to metal to make sure all the corrosive salts (if any) were gone. This picture shows the patches in rows, 1st patch removed the Wipe-out foam, 2nd and 3rd in each row were just follow up patches. The last two patches on the bottom are from two separate treatments. The follow up patches are not shown as there was really nothing on them. 1) First application, filled the bore with Wipe-out and let it sit for 1 hour before patching. Very Blue with lots of black. 2) 2nd application, let it sit for 12 hours before the patch. 3) Before applying the 3rd application, a dry bronze bore brush was run 10 times both directions and then Wipe-out was sprayed into the bore and left for 1 hour. 4) The 4th time was a repeat of of #3 and again soaking for 1 hour with Wipe-out. The process was changed for steps 5 & 6 by using a bronze bore brush soaked in Ezzox and using 10 passes each direction and then cleaning the bore, followed up with a patch of 91% rubbing alcohol before applying Wipe-out. 5) Wipe-out was again sprayed into the bore and let sit for 1 hour, that patch came out slightly blue with lots of black/grey which is either carbon or perhaps lead. 6) Step 6 is just a repeat of step 5 and the patch came out grey. Note: For those that care, after swapping out the Wipe-out for Steps 5 & 6 and then running an alcohol patch, the barrel was filled with Ballistol and water (10% Ballistol and 90% water) to neutralize any potential corrosive that may have been hiding under all the old copper and other crud. To wrap up this lengthy review. We are very impressed with how well this removed all the years of build up. It took a couple of days to complete, however, it was not really much work. Wipe-out made this easy and the bore is now cleaned down to the metal.

Le plus efficace après des années à nettoyer avec d’autre produit. Une heure et c’est fait.

This is simply the best Bore Cleaner out there and I have been using this stuff forever. Works fast and gets the copper out! This was recommended to be a long time ago by a close friend who has been shooting all his life, Marine Corps veteran, Vietnam Vet, Air National Guard FLight Surgeon and ER Doctor. He knows his stuff. This is the one to get folks.