Led fouling and how to clean it out

I have got many great advices here....if You can help, appreciate it-and thank you.

I have this great little 20 g Stevens 301 shotgun.

I decided to shoot slugs out from it,not just shots.
Set it up with Wortex Viper-sighted it in(almost).
Thru the excercise, and struggle with Venom not having enough up adjustment(fixed)i had about 20 rounds of Winchester and Federal plain Jane lead rifled slugs thru it.Plus 2 Federal TruBalls,at the end.

I cleaned halfway thru ,between 2 shooting sessions-but honestly,after the fact-i think it was not even a so-so clean out.

Today i decided to do a good scrub.After 2 hrs cleaning,brushing ,using Shooter's Choice Choke tube cleaner(suppose to work on lead)and some Ballistol CLP-the barrel is 95 % clean.
I gave up after 2 hrs.......will come back to it(advice pending :D)

I was SHOCKED of the amount of lead coming out from the barrel.Chips,little pieces,shavings of lead,rolls of lead on the brush....disgusting:rolleye:

I hunt over 25 years,and have reasonable experience and knowledge about gun cleaning-but never did i use lead slugs.

I believe some of You do shoot-foul-and successfully clean barrels from lead.

Can You guys advise for a quick and "easy"lead fouling removal method-chemical etc(for the next time).
Appreciate any other related advice.

Also-maybe one of the 3 slugs uses sub quality lead-so try to stay away from it perhaps?

You fired Lead slugs through a fully rifled barrel ?

Sorry, my bad... reread your post and it's a smoothbore correct ? My "go to" is Hoppes #9 but have used Bore Tech Eliminator but either way it is " scrub, swab and repeat" until it's clean.

Thank you Lp....appreciate your feedback

Some elbow grease would help ...
I had a same problem when I target shot with Winchester slugs ...
Re polishing the barrel would help to ...

I don't know if it's available in Canada, but I know a lot of Americans who shoot lead bullets swear by a product called Kroil.

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Originally Posted by gbk

I have got many great advices here....if You can help, appreciate it-and thank you.

I have this great little 20 g Stevens 301 shotgun.

I decided to shoot slugs out from it,not just shots.
Set it up with Wortex Viper-sighted it in(almost).
Thru the excercise, and struggle with Venom not having enough up adjustment(fixed)i had about 20 rounds of Winchester and Federal plain Jane lead rifled slugs thru it.Plus 2 Federal TruBalls,at the end.

I cleaned halfway thru ,between 2 shooting sessions-but honestly,after the fact-i think it was not even a so-so clean out.

Today i decided to do a good scrub.After 2 hrs cleaning,brushing ,using Shooter's Choice Choke tube cleaner(suppose to work on lead)and some Ballistol CLP-the barrel is 95 % clean.
I gave up after 2 hrs.......will come back to it(advice pending :D)

I was SHOCKED of the amount of lead coming out from the barrel.Chips,little pieces,shavings of lead,rolls of lead on the brush....disgusting:rolleye:

I hunt over 25 years,and have reasonable experience and knowledge about gun cleaning-but never did i use lead slugs.

I believe some of You do shoot-foul-and successfully clean barrels from lead.

Can You guys advise for a quick and "easy"lead fouling removal method-chemical etc(for the next time).
Appreciate any other related advice.

Also-maybe one of the 3 slugs uses sub quality lead-so try to stay away from it perhaps?

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Returning the favour on advice you gave me see attached I used it to clean a black powder rifle I forgot to clean and never touched for a few year, went from a cruddy barrel to shinning in no time.
https://www.big45metalcleaner.com/

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Originally Posted by Rick_ca

Returning the favour on advice you gave me see attached I used it to clean a black powder rifle I forgot to clean and never touched for a few year, went from a cruddy barrel to shinning in no time.
https://www.big45metalcleaner.com/

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Thank You Rick-will check them out

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Originally Posted by gbk

I have got many great advices here....if You can help, appreciate it-and thank you.

I have this great little 20 g Stevens 301 shotgun.

I decided to shoot slugs out from it,not just shots.
Set it up with Wortex Viper-sighted it in(almost).
Thru the excercise, and struggle with Venom not having enough up adjustment(fixed)i had about 20 rounds of Winchester and Federal plain Jane lead rifled slugs thru it.Plus 2 Federal TruBalls,at the end.

I cleaned halfway thru ,between 2 shooting sessions-but honestly,after the fact-i think it was not even a so-so clean out.

Today i decided to do a good scrub.After 2 hrs cleaning,brushing ,using Shooter's Choice Choke tube cleaner(suppose to work on lead)and some Ballistol CLP-the barrel is 95 % clean.
I gave up after 2 hrs.......will come back to it(advice pending :D)

I was SHOCKED of the amount of lead coming out from the barrel.Chips,little pieces,shavings of lead,rolls of lead on the brush....disgusting:rolleye:

I hunt over 25 years,and have reasonable experience and knowledge about gun cleaning-but never did i use lead slugs.

I believe some of You do shoot-foul-and successfully clean barrels from lead.

Can You guys advise for a quick and "easy"lead fouling removal method-chemical etc(for the next time).
Appreciate any other related advice.

Also-maybe one of the 3 slugs uses sub quality lead-so try to stay away from it perhaps?

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GBK tried to PM you couple of time see how you made out you must be popular site saying your inbox is full LOL

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Originally Posted by Rick_ca

GBK tried to PM you couple of time see how you made out you must be popular site saying your inbox is full LOL

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Hi Rick-thank you for the heads up about my Inbox .I am not popular that much ;)just not cleaning out old stuff.
Plus-i think the Memory system on OOD is random, and does not really works to its intent.At least that is how i see..........

Anyway,ordered the stuff,got it ,and it helped.:thumbup:
My bore is as shiny as new.

It was not bad for the price-but for making sense of shipping cost per unit ,i ordered 3...now have enough for a very long time.:goodstuff:

Sorry for not posting the results earlier.



Thank you for the help.
GBK

im about to order more cannot find package i had, i really need to sort my garage out LMAO