Noobie question-- Sabotloader, when are you using these Windex patches? Cleaning between shots, prior to shooting the first shot of the day, etc?
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The Windex patches prepared as shown above have very little moisture in them and are used at the range for patching in between shots.
At home I prepare another batch of Windex patches that are 'wet' for the first step in the bore cleaning process.
Fouling process... One thing I believe helps the fouling process - I do not use anything in the bore that has petroleum oil products in them. Which I really believe helps the first shot accuracy and the fouling process.
When I take a rifle out of storage and headed to the range or even hunting - prior to the first shot I pop 3 caps or primers with the muzzle pointed straight down. After the caps/primers I will run a clean dry patch top to bottom several strokes (same patch). Then I will load up and take the first shot... Of then this first shot is out of the resulting group by a 1/2" or so. After the first shot I will run a range Windex patch load and begin shooting.
Cleaning the bore @ home.... I will run a couple of 'wet' Windex patches, then dry patches, followed by wet BC 2-in-1 Bore Scrubber patches and dry patches and finally I will apply some Montan X-treme Bore Conditioner (synthetic bore oil) as a bore protector - really an easy process and works very well for me.
Here is a pictorial of my bore cleaning
Products
Blue Windex you already know about....
Birchwood Casey 2-in-1 Bore Scrubber.
I am going to try different product on the next few range trips. The Bore Scrubber has some BC Barricade in it also which I believe have has a small amount of petroleum type oil in it. So I am going to switch to Hoppes #9 Synthethic Bore cleaner and try it.
And the last step of the process is the application of Montana X-treme Bore Conditioner. 'Which is really good stuff'