All the cool kids at Friendship are actually using windex down the barrel between shots. Crazy, I know, but it works
All the cool kids at Friendship are actually using windex down the barrel between shots. Crazy, I know, but it works
I mostly agree with this, BUT Windex does contain surfactants which do help with the cleaning. But it would do that with or without the ammonia. I use Windex (actually windshield wiper fluid) to rinse my milsurps after shooting corrosive ammo. I know that water would work just as well for neutralizing the corrosive salts, but the surfactants do a little pre-cleaning which makes it that much easier to do a regular cleaning once I get home from the range.It's because they heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend who heard it from this one guy's uncle Jim-Bob who read about it on some BBS service back in 1994.
Windex is a MYTH. It's nothing but expensive water. There's not enough ammonia in it, even in the ammonia-containing formulas, to matter one bit.
Windex = expensive water.
Those who know better don't use Windex.
LOL. Some of the kids were using water.
It's because they heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend who heard it from this one guy's uncle Jim-Bob who read about it on some BBS service back in 1994.
Windex is a MYTH. It's nothing but expensive water. There's not enough ammonia in it, even in the ammonia-containing formulas, to matter one bit.
Windex = expensive water.
Those who know better don't use Windex.
But that type of cleaning is a different ballgame than attempting to chemically & mechanically remove lead and copper from a barrel's innards.
Butch's bore shine is what the Benchrest Shooters that I know use. You can smell the ammonia and the bottle comes inside of it's own included outer container. I push a few tight patches on a jag with a coated 1-piece rod every 10 or so cleanings to strip copper. Personally I follow it with Kroil to clean out the Butch's Bore Shine and stop the copper-dissolving action. I always use a bore guide as I wouldn't want to leave that stuff in my action.Have a new Howa rifle that calls for a 20 shot break in procedure with an ammonia based cleaner. Aside from windex, my CLP doesn't say ammonia on the can nor does balystol.
Anyone know of a cleaner that contains ammonia?