I have been using the cva products to clean my ml's, and have found that i am getting corrosion from these products. I talked to a buddy of mine who hunts in w. va. and he says he uses hoppes and oil, and cleans em just like his other guns. is this going to clean all the fouling out of my ml's, or do i need to continue using the cva stuff that is aggravating me. I am very meticulous about my firearms.
If you want to get your m/l really clean, use hot soapy water. Put the breech end (with plug in it) in a shallow pan.Run a patched ramrod up and down and it will draw the hot soapy water up in the barrel. You will be baffled how much crap will come out, If you are storing the gun after that, then oil the crap out of it with a good gun oil on a patch. If you are hunting after cleaning it, oil inside barrel then run several dry patches down the barrel. You can also run a patch with windex on it before oiling to get any soap residue out of it
For normal cleaning, I use the premoistened patches(they come in a tub of like 100, and have a cleaning agent in them). I believe they are made by t/c. Several of those until they come out clean, a few dry patches, then an oil patch followed by more dry patches. Inside my barrel looks like a mirror
Great advice! Thanks.
Use the Hoppes oil, it's great. I used to use the Remington oil, was not happy with it.
