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As an aside, I've just bought a new cheap 5.5mm Borescope from china on ebay - so hopefully it'll fit in my .223 - but it should definitely fit in my .308 and I'll get some borescope before and afters of what's going on - providing the cheapy borescope I've ordered arrives and works...!

I don't pull a wet patch back through, but after the first patch with C2R I do give the bore a scrub with a nylon brush and C2R, just to make sure everything is well covered and to remove any loose bits. I follow this with a 2nd wet (C2R) patch to push any loosened crud out.

Ben Denise wrote:I don't pull a wet patch back through, but after the first patch with C2R I do give the bore a scrub with a nylon brush and C2R, just to make sure everything is well covered and to remove any loose bits. I follow this with a 2nd wet (C2R) patch to push any loosened crud out.

Yea, I always use a nylon bore brush just to make sure it gets distributed.

A colleague of mine was impressed but just cant bring himself to put water down the bore....good job he never shot black powder or old corrosive primers then. The armourer only has a small ammount left from the sample bottle he had which I guess is a positive.

make sure to clean the brushes etc between use or where you have a brass ferrule or whatnot it will soon go a nice shade of blue/green.

Whatever you do dont let it anywhere near a reloading area where it may find its way onto your brass....scrap in fairly short order if you dont spot it

Maggot wrote: A colleague of mine was impressed but just cant bring himself to put water down the bore....good job he never shot black powder or old corrosive primers then.

Was gonna say, didn't SMLE's come issues with a funnel to pour a kettle full of water down the bore to clean em...?

When "Eagernoskills" first started marketing C2R, I liked his approach, he said "just clean your rifle using your usual solvents and then, when the rifle is "clean", use the C2R".
He knew what was going to happen - the supposedly 'clean' barrel produced lots more black and blue patches using the C2R.
I was hooked from then on.....
It is excellent stuff.

desparado wrote:When "Eagernoskills" first started marketing C2R, I liked his approach, he said "just clean your rifle using your usual solvents and then, when the rifle is "clean", use the C2R".
He knew what was going to happen - the supposedly 'clean' barrel produced lots more black and blue patches using the C2R.
I was hooked from then on.....
It is excellent stuff.

That's kinda why i wanted to run this review/test.

At many times I've seen people on this forum offering people to bring their clean rifles with other solvents, and put a couple of C2R patches down - it's on the forum a lot, however aside from those few people who got the invites to have this happen, I hadn't seen the evidence of what actually comes out of these clean rifles with my own eyes.

Now I have, and so will the rest of the people who find the blog :)

Once I've got a borescope, I'll do some more testing and before and afters of the bore, perhaps with some club rifles that I doubt have ever been cleaned... (or out of the armoury in at least a decade...!)

I've used C2R for a few years now and still pleasantly surprised how well it cleans (and lasts - still 3/4 of the bottle left)! I did a friends .308 with it a few weeks back, which he swore was clean. Needless to say it was not.

I too was a little apprehensive about using water in the bore but now have no issues in doing so. However I was of the belief that water was required as a catalyst for the reaction? However I stand to be corrected on this.

I find a nylon brush coated in C2R is the easiest method and ensure complete coverage.

pigsy wrote:I've used C2R for a few years now and still pleasantly surprised how well it cleans (and lasts - still 3/4 of the bottle left)! I did a friends .308 with it a few weeks back, which he swore was clean. Needless to say it was not.

I too was a little apprehensive about using water in the bore but now have no issues in doing so. However I was of the belief that water was required as a catalyst for the reaction? However I stand to be corrected on this.

I find a nylon brush coated in C2R is the easiest method and ensure complete coverage.

I believe quite the opposite. The water neutralises the reaction.

I have a Nylon brush, at what point would you use it?

TattooedGun wrote:

Maggot wrote: A colleague of mine was impressed but just cant bring himself to put water down the bore....good job he never shot black powder or old corrosive primers then.

Was gonna say, didn't SMLE's come issues with a funnel to pour a kettle full of water down the bore to clean em...?

Believe it may have been for the .303 Martinis but I could be wrong, actually have one, great piece of kit, use it on my Mauser K98 and Mosins when having used surplus ammo.

TG, will be interesting to see what happens when you get the bore scope.

Ideally use it before you clean and then after.