Stainless Steel barrel cleaning

[Darklyte27]

Do you have to clean your stainless steel barrel any differently than a chrome lined barrel? Or can you just use CLP and punch the barrel?

[J_Rock]

I'm guessing you bought the SS barrel for accuracy. If so CLP is fine for getting the carbon out(although I suggest an actual cleaner for this)

You will have to decopper at regular intervals when you start to see accuracy degrade with a quality copper solvent.

[Darklyte27]

stag model 6 varminter
how bout hoppes #9?

[podobo]

I like KG 1 and 12

[jandmtv]

I use Butch's bore shine on my ss barrels. Hoppes #9 is great for carbon fouling but not so much for copper.

[Schooner]

Try "Sweets 7.62" it will take all the copper out. You can only leave it in a SS barrel for a short time. It will also eat copper brushes, so a patch, or plastic brush is best. But this stuff works better that anything else for copper fouling.

[nobs11]

Don't go overboard. Don't try to scrub your bore down to the bare metal. Do your normal cleaning. Easy on the copper solvent. MPro with copper solvent every so often works for me. Run a CLP patch when done.