Bore Tech Eliminator Bore Cleaner, 16 oz

This is THE BEST gun cleaner I have ever used, or tried! Follow the directions, verbatim, from the label on the bottle and you will be amazed at the results. I have a S&W Model 629 44 Magnum revolver that I have shot 44 Special lead bullets, and 44 Magnum copper jacketed bullets, through in large amounts. Anyone that shoots low velocity lead, and high velocity copper jacketed ammunition through the same revolver can tell you that the copper fouling can be very tenacious; and a real pain to remove. I was trying everything recommended to remove the copper fouling from the bore (i.e. Sweet's, Butch's Bore Shine, etc.) with little to no luck. Most bore cleaners on the market use a fairly heavy amount of ammonia in their formulas. Ammonia has a very strong odor, and it can be very harmful to the metal of most firearms; if left in the bore too long. Even with following the labels on these products, and following advice from gunsmiths and firearms manufacturers, I was not able to completely remove the copper fouling from the bore of this revolver. These cleaners would make a mess, and stink the house up, to the point that I was forbidden to clean any firearms in the house ever again. I used these ammonia intense cleaners every day for over a week, and finally thought I had gotten all of the copper out of there bore that I would be able to get out. I was even told that there was no safe way of removing all of the copper fouling from the stainless steel, and it was something I would have to get used to. A few years ago, I was ordering some reloading components online when I saw this "Bore Tech" Copper bore cleaner had received many excellent reviews. The price seemed a little high, but no higher than bore cleaners from Butch's Bore Shine and other specialty copper removers. The more I read the many reviews, the more interested I was to try it. I ordered a small bottle of the copper remover, and a small bottle of the Eliminator, thinking it was worth a try since nothing else worked very well. When I received the order, I put it away in my shop and forgot about it for a couple of weeks. I tried the Eliminator first on a different firearm, that I was convinced had a clean bore because every wet patch I ran through it came out clean with no Blue signs of copper fouling. The patches I used, with the Eliminator, came out blue so I tried it on the S&W 629. I followed the directions on the label, and I removed blue, copper patches over and over again; even though the bore looked copper free for the first time since it was new. This was just using the Eliminator, and not the Copper Remover, so I tried the Copper Remover and it showed blue no matter how many times I repeated the cleaning. I discovered that the patch jags and brushes were dissolving in the Bore Tech products because copper is the main metal in bronze and brass that the jags and brushes were made of; giving a false positive. So I ordered some jags and brushes from Bore Tech, that had no copper used in their construction. The next cleaning: The patches came out clean. I can't tell the difference in the performance of the Eliminator and the Copper Remover in the removal of copper fouling. I ordered a large bottle of Eliminator, the Rimfire Blend and the Carbon Fouling remover and I have been using them ever since. The Rimfire Blend removes lead fouling better than anything else I've tried, and the Carbon Fouling remover works better than any other solvent I have tried. The ease of use and the fast performance of the Bore Tech products also makes them very economical: A little goes a long way. The odor of each of these products is not offensive or strong. My wife lets me clean firearms in the house again; and she is very sensitive to the smell of most solvents because of her asthma and allergies. She starts having problems if I open a bottle of Hoppe's in the opposite end of the house from she is. It's hard to believe Bore Tech's cleaning products are environmentally safe, given their high performance, but everything I have read says that they are environmentally safe; and they will not harm the steel, polymers and other alloys most firearms are made from. I usually do not volunteer to write reviews for any product but I will do so if asked; or the product is very bad, or very good. Bore Tech products are very good. Their brushes, jags, loops and cleaning rods are a little on the expensive side, but they are of outstanding quality and they are not as expensive as having to replace these items because their solvents dissolved them. I do not work for Bore Tech, nor do I have any friends or relatives that do; and I have not received any compensation for reviewing their firearms cleaning products, and I do expect to receive any compensation for this review. I just wish I learned of them way before I did. If you have not tried their cleaning stuff, I encourage you to do so. You will be amazed. If you have tried anything that works better; please, let me know what it is!

After reading many reviews I bought the Carbon, Rimfire and Eliminator. I hesitated to spend $20 more on Cu+2 if Eliminator is as good as claimed. My re-barreled rifle recently arrived and I bore scoped it. It had copper streaks. (proof fired by gunsmith) I removed the copper. I shot 30 rounds (half were all copper Barnes X bullets) from the 300 H&H. I took it home to clean it. I worked on it for an hour with breaks between patches. Then I patched it in the morning and again at night. I did that for 3 days. Then I broke out the bore scope. There was zero indication of copper from end to end. Nothing I have ever used gets all the copper out. I was amazed. My take on the 3 products: I assume that the Carbon cutter helps. Not certain. I get black patches at first with any good cleaner. I have not used the Rimfire. I KNOW that the Eliminator works very well on copper and I'm guessing barrel cleaning in general.. I have never used rubber gloves for gun cleaning before. Sweets and Shooters choice probably should be avoided but I never let it worry me. The Eliminator hurts my finger tips and now I wear the gloves. Very little smell but its still a (for me) harsh chemical. Handle with care. I ordered the CU+2 and will be trying that very soon. I don't see how it could be much better but I am so impressed with the Eliminator that I feel I should see for myself. Twenty bucks for 16 oz is quite economical. Sweets (IMO the runner up) by comparison is $12 for 7 ounces at Midway. Barnes (also good stuff) is about the same. So the price is right and it's the best stuff out there - as far as I know.

Love this stuff for cleaning my precision rifles. It works great for copper and carbon removal at the same time. Does not hurt the metal to let it soak for some time. I like all Bore Tech cleaning products.

I ve used this for a few years now works great

I recently purchased a dan wesson super mag and the barrel had so much copper fouling you could literally see that it was built up the whole barrel looked like it was copper plated I bought this and was ready to let soak for days but this stuff got it looking brand new with a few patches no soaking needed. Can't recommend it enough.

I don't need this kind of bore cleaner that often but when I do, this stuff works great. I have used other bore cleaners over the years and Bore Tech makes a very good product for cleaning barrels.

Best bore cleaner out there in my opinion. It's not cheap, but you get what you pay for. Also doesn't have any nasty smell (love the smell of Hoppe's No. 9 though). Cleans out copper as well. Unlike others, there is nothing corrosive about this. Worth the money.

This review is going to be the same for all 3 Boretech products I ordered as part of their system. C4 Carbon Remover, Eliminator Bore Cleaner, and CU+2 Copper Remover: I don't enjoy cleaning guns, and tend to neglect them because of the time it takes to clean semi-auto DI guns, guns fired suppressed (nasty), and proper barrel cleaning of precision bolt guns. I will sometimes spend 3 hours on a barrel removing carbon fouling and copper if I do the entire regimen. I hate it. I've been using a bunch of different flavors of solvents, copper removers, bore scrubbers, etc. Everyone kept mentioning Bore Tech this, Bore Tech that, whatever, I said. I was given some Amazon gift cards at work, and decided to finally try them out. I just took a 750 round defensive carbine class, which I shot entirely suppressed out of an LWRC SBR. As many know, suppressed shooting deposits a lot of carbon everywhere regardless of the fact that it's a piston-driven gun. I was dreading the cleaning process but decided to wait on the Bore Tech products to arrive. I started by putting some C4 Carbon Remover on a patch and began working it into the BCG, inside the upper receiver, and barrel extension. I wasn't planning on cleaning the barrel, so I just took a chamber brush and soaked it in C4, gave it a few turns in the chamber, and grabbed a rag to wipe off the upper receiver. I wasn't expecting much, since I normally have to scrub with brushes and elbow grease. The rag came off black and removed every last bit of carbon just by wiping it off. I couldn't believe how effective it was. The carbon was just melting off. I cleaned the entire gun with just patches, q-tips, and a rag in less than 15 minutes. At this point, I decided to clean the muzzle, which consists of a Surefire CTH Warcomp and a carbon-locked suppressor. Since I'm not at the range at this point, I can't shoot off the suppressor, and it's locked in tight. I dribble a bit of C4 on the mount area, and within a couple of minutes, the can just slides right off. I finish clean the carbon off the muzzle device and decide to go full-retard and do the barrel as well. I started the barrel with one patch soaked in C4 to saturate the bore, then followed by 10 strokes with a nylon brush. Patch out the absolute blackness that comes out until patches are fairly clean. About 5 patches in my case. I repeat the process with a patch soaked in Eliminator Bore Cleaner. First patch comes out blue, as do the next 10 patches. (I haven't even started using the CU+2 yet). I repeat the process with Eliminator one more time, and patches are coming out clean. I decided to de-copper as well, since I'm already here. I repeat again the same soak, brush, patch process with CU+2 Copper Remover and patches are showing just a slight hint of blue. (I use nickel-coated jags, so no false positives from the jags) I end with another wet patch of Eliminator just to clean out the copper remover (no ammonia, so I don't think this step is necessary) and dry patch with 4 more patches. Patches are completely white. (I also bore-mopped the chamber to get rid of the previous cleaning process) Put the gun together and there is no hint of this gun ever being fired. It's that clean. I think all in it only took one hour. Well-worth getting the whole system I think, although the CU+2 is probably overkill, as Eliminator can remove quite a bit of copper as well. I was most impressed with C4, cause it melts carbon fouling like it's butter. It's great to clean muzzle breaks and DI receivers.