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"Bullet Slick"

MontanaMontana Member Posts: 3 ✭✭
edited November 2001 in Ask the Experts
Does anyone have experience with a product called "Bullet Slick"? It's supposed to "greatly reduce copper fouling" without leaving behind residue like moly coating. Just trying to find something to slow down the amount of copper fouling I get in my .308 and .338.
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  • modocmodoc Member Posts: 474 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You already know the answer,MOLY by golly.I have not yet given myself over to it but it is the solution to copper fouling.I shoot with a bunch that know about what they speak and to a man they are convinced that moly is the answer.Rather strange stuff,since there is less friction,it takes more powder to attain the speed of bullets without moly.So you have to add more powder to bring it back up.Clean up is a breeze,a couple of wet patches and a couple dry and you are done.No more brushes. No more streaks either.I'm sold.
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    modoc -Any URLs you can recommend where one could learn application methods? I have several pounds of moly I obtained from a former job; high quality stuff which was going to be thrown away. Couldn't have people throwing out perfectly good stuff, now could I? It's been sitting on a shelf in my loading area for 20 years - I knew it would come in handy some day.
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  • MontanaMontana Member Posts: 3 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thanks Modoc,I've been dragging my feet about using the moly because of horror stories I've heard about cleaning it. But I also just read about a fellow who regularly places first in competitive matches and swears by it's use. He says he never cleans during a match and afterwards simply runs a couple of solvent soaked patches thru the barrel to get the crud out, followed by short-stroking the barrel about 20 times with JB paste. After that he puts on a coat of "Kroil" (which I have never seen in these parts) and that's it. Sounds like he simply "polishes" the moly coat and doesn't worry about cleaning it out. I guess I'll give it a try.
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  • edharoldedharold Member Posts: 465 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I converted my 300WM to moly. I cannot see any decrease at all in copper fouling, nor increased accuracy.Rick Jamison wrote a column in Shooting Times a few months ago debunking the poly claims. Maybe for some guns it may help, not for mine. I'm in the process of removing it from the barrel of my rifle. It is messy to remove.
    "They that would give up liberty to obtain safety deserve neither liberty nor safety"Benj. Franklin, 1759
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  • spclarkspclark Member Posts: 408 ✭
    edited November -1
    Montana,Kroil is available from Midway (http://www.midwayusa.com) - item # 137203 - & is a GREAT product! Works as a wonder solvent for cleaning up all firearms, gets under bore fouling (lead & otherwise) to make removal easier, takes powder burns off stainless with some elbow grease & a patch or two, and has been recommended mixed 50/50 with Hoppe's #9 or Butch's BoreShine as an enhanced nitro residue-cutter.Just DON't use it as a substitute for regular gun oil (or other product) for rust prevention. Once the solvents that make it what it is have evaporated, the remaining oil film just isn't very thick, molecularly-speaking.
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