Leaded 410 barrels help needed
 

Any advice on how to clean out a set of leaded 410 SxS barrels ?

I was told an Outers Tomlinson tool was very good but haven't been able to locate one to buy or borrow for 410 bores.

Any suggestions or leads on a Tomlinson tool would be appreciated.

You might try a chunk of frontier pad wrapped around a .410 brush and powered by a cordless drill. A soaking of Hoppes benchrest solution, gunzilla, or ballistol and then a polishing with the frontier pad on the brush should clean up the bores pretty well.

Karl,
Hoppes Tornado cleaners are still available. That is what I use. I thought I had a Tomlinson 410 but I do not.
Bob Jurewicz

Here's one on eBay for a few bucks
https://www.ebay.com/itm/30386369923....c101124.m2109

I should have mentioned that over the last three days I have tried everything that Matt has suggested without hardly any improvement. I haven't tried the Tornado cleaner.

Dean Harris at Skeet's said the Tomlinson tool has worked very well for heavily leaded barrels like mine.

Thanks

Thanks but that's just the brass screens... I would also need the tool they attach to

Don't know if this is still available.......
 

My recommendation is exactly like Matt’s except don’t use a solvent. You don’t want to lubricate or protect the lead. The Frontier pad will not damage the bore at all but used dry it will make short work of the lead. Do it muzzle down over a sheet of white paper and watch the little pile of lead particles build up. I’ve done this very successfully.

EDIT: I was curious if any steel was being removed so I held a little pen magnet to the particles and absolutely nothing was attracted to the magnet.

Lead-fouled bores and chokes can destroy patterns.



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Sent you a PM

Karl see if you can get a picture of the inside of the barrels and post.I was wondering how much lead you were dealing with?

Thanks