Getting shotgun bores clean

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Originally Posted by Gil Martin

For years i have been using brushes, solvent, lead wiping cloth, J B Bore Cleaner and even fine steel wool trying to get shotgun bores really clean. After a lot of time and effort there were varying degrees of success. Now I have settled on using Remington Bore Cleaner on a strip of cloth cloth wrapped around a snug-fitting brush. Run it back and forth through the bore about twenty times. That is followed with a cloth with solvent, then a dry cloth and finally and oil/grease cloth. The Remington Bore Cleaner removes, rust, fouling, leading, plastic and whatever else is in the bore. Works for me. All the best...
Gil

There really is no need to get a shotgun bore squeaky clean unless it is a rifled barrel and you need extreme accuracy for some reason. I shoot thousands of rounds through a shotgun and merely run a bore snake through it with some Hoppes solvent on it. The one place I need to pay a lot of attention is the gas ports on my semis, but there I don't clean them through the bore but with a small .22 cal brush right through the gas port.

Over cleaning a shotgun barrel can cause more damage than benefit.