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Is Hoppes #9 still the standard?

wpagewpage Member Posts: 10,201 ✭✭✭
edited May 2010 in Ask the Experts
Been useing hoppe #9 for many years. It works great. Is there any latest and greatest that beats it for bore cleaning?
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  • MFIMFI Member Posts: 7,899 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You will get 10000000000 different folks who use others but Hoppes is our only choice and we been doing this since 1968..
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  • Sig220_Ruger77Sig220_Ruger77 Member Posts: 12,754 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It's Hoppes #9 or Butch's Bore Shine for me! [:D]

    Jon
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  • 35 Whelen35 Whelen Member Posts: 14,307 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sweets 7.62 for copper fouling, and Hoppes #9 for everything else.[:)]
    An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.
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  • Bert H.Bert H. Member Posts: 11,281 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Are you trying to tell me that there is actually something other than Hoppe's No. 9...[?] [;)][:D]

    WACA Historian & Life Member

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  • givettegivette Member Posts: 10,886 ✭
    edited November -1
    Lead/Copper specific cleaners...if there's the 'need'.

    Otherwise, Hoppe's is the way to go. And smells great!

    (If I met a broad that used #9 instead of purfume, I'd marry her)!
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  • bpostbpost Member Posts: 32,669 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It is a good gun bore cleaner, it is a poor copper fouling remover.
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  • firstharmonicfirstharmonic Member Posts: 1,072 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by bpost1958
    It is a good gun bore cleaner, it is a poor copper fouling remover.


    Actually, Hoppes does a good job on copper fouling if you use it as directed. Wet down the bore well, let sit overnight and the next morning you'll be amazed at the amount of blue-green copper fouling that will patch out of that bore.

    If you're in a hurry or do not have the time to let it work for one reason or another, Hoppes is probably not the best choice for removing copper residue from that barrel. There are several very good solvents that do not take as much time to work. But Hoppes will get the job done if allowed enough time.
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  • ern98ern98 Member Posts: 1,725 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I use Brownell's JB paste bore cleaner to scrub out the copper and such and then use Hoppes #9 to clean that out.
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  • 5mmgunguy5mmgunguy Member Posts: 3,092 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Great for powder fouling...I have tried almost everything...just keep coming back to Hoppes #9
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  • Belt Fed .50 Cal.Belt Fed .50 Cal. Member Posts: 15 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    35 Whelen Classic has the right combo! Sweets & Hoppes No.9.
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  • tsr1965tsr1965 Member Posts: 8,682 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    For me it's Shooter's Choice for lead and copper fouling, and all other, I keep a shop sized bottle of Hoppe's #9. Hoppe's does make a copper and lead remover also if I am not mistaken.

    Best
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