Bore snake success!

ditto1958 said:

I was using Ballistol and Hoppers along with patches and my barrel just was not looking all that great.

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Probably a dumb question but youre using bore brushes too right?

Thats your problem right there! Even the boresnake has a brush imbedded in it. I do like boresnakes and they do a decent job, in certain guns they even produce a close to completely clean barrel but the best way is to used a rod, brush, and some patches, occasionally copper solvent. I got a Rem 700 26in barrel and my rod was too shot so for a few hundred rounds I used nothing but bore snake. They run really tight in .22 calibers and they did a great job in that gun for a while, but no matter how much you boresnake, you can almost always run a brush to kick up more residue and come out with a "dirty" patch. Also remember to wash the BS, if youre cleaning with a dirty BS occasionally, youre not going to clean as effectively with a dirty one. The copper solvent really didnt take anything out of my SR9 after 4000 rounds but after a few hundred .223s, I was getting dissolved copper so its a must for a good rifle.