new handi followed me home

[NE Hunter]

A .45-70 Gov. came home with me ( standard model) and I've seen some posts on here refereing to a paste cleaner as a first step in barrel brake in.  Can you tell me the name and where I can get it?  I've looked through midway and don't see it  but that don't mean much.

[cma g21]

J-B Bore Bright. Brownell's has it:

http://www.brownells.com/aspx/NS/store/ProductDetail.aspx?p=1161&title=J-B+BORE+BRIGHT

[quickdtoo]

Bore bright is NOT the recommended stuff, JB non-embedding bore compound is the right stuff, flitz metal polish will also work....If you look in the FAQ stick at the top of this forum, you'll find the complete instructions, just don't use the moly bullets part unless you plan on using moly bullets, they seem to really cause problems if you switch back and forth between them and standard jacketed bullets.

http://www.varmintal.com/ashot.htm#Break

http://www.brownells.com/aspx/NS/store/ProductDetail.aspx?p=1160&title=J-B%7e+NON-EMBEDDING+BORE+CLEANING+COMPOUND

From the FAQ...

MINNESOTA DICK pointed out
posted December 27, 2003 07:21 AM
VarmitAl (varmital.com)says about barrel breakin at his web site.
NEW BARREL BREAK IN.... There is so much black magic out there about breaking in a barrel, that I am not going to suggest any procedure. I will merely tell you what I do with a new barrel. I take the brand new barrel and use J-B on it. That's right, I clean and polish it with J-B before even firing the first round through it. I put a light coat of J-B on a patch and give the barrel about 50 strokes from end to end with it. Then I clean the J-B out with a couple of patches of Shooter's Choice MC#7. I dry the bore with 3 or 4 patches until it is completely dry. I carefully clean the chamber of J-B too. That's it, the barrel is broken in and I am ready to sight in, shoot some groups, and work up an accurate load. I take the rifle to the range and shoot 3 or 4 five shot groups with Moly-coated bullets. I clean the barrel with Sweets and usually there is no copper. From then on, shooting only Moly-coated bullets, I clean the barrel when I feel guilty. If there is copper on the first cleaning, I conclude that I didn't do enough with the J-B and repeat the J-B treatment. All that these shoot-clean, shoot-clean, etc. break in processes do, in my opinion, is perform a slow, inefficient, and expensive polishing process which the J-B does better, smoother, and faster. I use a plastic coated stainless steel cleaning rod and a jag style that you wrap the patches around. I use the blue Shop Towels for patch material and I cut a roll into a number of 1-½-inch wide rolls with a sharp knife. I never use brushes in my barrels and I don't even have any. I use J-B, Shooter's Choice MC#7, and Sweets. I am sure there are other procedures that are just as good or superior, but this works very well for me. If I have a particularly bad copper fouling barrel, I use Flitz Metal Polish instead of JB.

[cma g21]

Bore bright is NOT the recommended stuff, JB non-embedding bore compound is the right stuff...

  My mistake. I thought the bore compound was for cleaning and rough polishing, and the bore bright was for final polishing.

 I've been using bore compound on older rifles (followed by bore bright), but just the bore bright on new ones.

 I guess I need to use the bore compound for all rifles.

[NE Hunter]

Flitz is what I was  thinking of.  Thanks

[quickdtoo]

Flitz is a bit more aggressive from Varmint Al's statement that he uses it for really fouled bores....either will work, the JB is probably harder to find locally. Mac used the Flitz on the 30-06 UltraComp that I bought from him  and hopefully you saw how well it shoots!!