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04-19-2010, 11:05 AM
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460XVR Question
While cleaning revolvers yesterday, I was having trouble getting a clean patch out of the 460XVR. This gun has seen less than 100 rounds, nearly all the factory Hornady 200grains. Shining a light down the bore, I was amazed to see that the rifling grooves were all uniformly coated with copper and the inside of the compensater had what appears to be spatters of molten copper. I have encountered copper fouling before, but not anything even close to this scale. My attacks with Shooter's Choice, Hoppe's, and RB 17 and bore brush barely scratched the surface after 2 hours of soaking and scrubbing. Why the huge amount of copper and what should I try next??
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04-19-2010, 11:16 AM
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Find Remington bore cleaner using a bronze brush. In 3 minutes of scrubbing back and forth will clean it spotless.
The other cleaners stink and take too long.
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04-19-2010, 11:20 AM
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I have used Hoppe's Bench Rest and it seems to work quite well. I don't know if it works as the Remington brand, since I haven't tried that one.
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04-19-2010, 11:25 AM
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I know what your talking about. I usually spend about about 20 minutes clean-up with mine. First step, I run a patch with Hoppes through the bore and all chambers in the cylinder and around the top strap and bore. Then I let it sit for an hour while I do something else, like clean my other guns. When I come back to the 460 I am prepared to get dirty so lay a towel, I don't want, on the table or floor making sure I'm comfortable while running a stainless brush through all the bores about 10 times each. Second step, I clean up the gun with patches that fit very tightly on a jag through all the bores. I do the first and second steps again depending on how I feel. I'm not concerned If I don't get the bore perfect as it has not affected my accuracy. My main concern with this gun is getting the chambers clean as possible. If I shoot lead the chambers are harder to clean and it takes more time. After I feel satisfied I run a patch of light oil through all bores once. I'm done. I think the main thing is being consistent, do the same thing every-time and check accuracy.
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04-20-2010, 03:30 AM
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Shooters Choice Copper Remover was the only stuff that worked in my 460XVR to get all the copper out.
http://www.midwayusa.com/viewproduct...campaign=10612
Last edited by LEE2; 04-20-2010 at 03:35 AM.
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04-20-2010, 06:50 PM
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Is this normal for this revolver ? Would it be the cartridge or the gun causing this amount of fouling ?
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04-21-2010, 12:35 AM
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I have heard and read that with any cartridge that is over 2,000 fps copper build-up will occur and that a copper solvent should be used. I think it is the cartridge and not the pistol.
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