Butches Bore Shine and Tipton Brass Brush

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I was home 'sick' today so I thought that I would clean one of my Yugo M48A's that I took to the range last week. I figured it was time to clean the copper out but was out of 7.62. I popped down to the closest gun shop and the only thing they really had for copper removal was this stuff called Butches Bore Shine. I haven't used this stuff before and in reading the directions it said to. The instructions said that scrubbing the barrel was no necessary. I can tell you straight off this turned out to be a load.

I followed the instructions and the results weren't all that great so I ran an IOSSO Nyflex 8MM brush down the chamber 12 times and when I ran another patch down all kinds of crud came out. After pushing out patches until I had a good amount of white. I ran another wet patch down and within three dry patches, I was getting clean patches.

Just out of curiosity, I ran wet patch of Hoppe's Elite (a product which I never thought much of) and holy mackerel the carbon poured out. The wet patch came out dark, the first dry was the same. It was five patches before I clean white.

Guess I wont be using that Butches Bore Shine anymore. Oh, it comes in a bottle but the bottle is inside a plastic container. I found out why as soon as I opened the plastic container - It smells like all hell, not something you want to use in the house or even a workshop that you can't open window.

A bit ago I asked my wife to order me a new set of JAG's over time my collection has gotten somewhat limited, and when I broke my 8MM jag I figured it was time. I asked her to order me a set of Tipton Jags and she ended up ordering a Jag and Brass Brush set.

I didn't really need that brass brushes because I switched over to IOSSO Nyflex fiber Bore Brush about two years ago because of the copper removal solvents I was using. When I took a look at the set I noticed that the tip of the Tipton brushes was simply cut off. I'm used to bronze brushes that have the folded over wire tips as Sinclar and Hoppes uses.

While I don't think ti make too much of a difference I gotta wonder about it. It might not hurt the bore any but accidentally knowing the tip into something else, like maybe the stock, might cause damage. It was just and observation.

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