Led fouling and how to clean it out

[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 )

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

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?

[longpointer]

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.

[gbk]

Thank you Lp....appreciate your feedback

[alfoldivandor]

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

[Kilo Charlie]

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.

[Rick_ca]

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 )

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

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?

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/

[gbk]

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/

Thank You Rick-will check them out

[Rick_ca]

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 )

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

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?

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

[gbk]

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

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.
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.

Sorry for not posting the results earlier.



Thank you for the help.
GBK

[Rick_ca]

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