Gunsmithing Break free “new to me” - thoughts if used as a cleaning agent?

[Trek]

Cleaned my barrel this afternoon (first cleaning - first rounds to be fired Sunday morning). I used Wilson Combat carbon remover (from my pistol kit), and then went back with CLP/break free... and I was surprised on the amount of additional fouling picked up. I have Boretech carbon and copper remover on hand as well... any experience using just theCLP as a cleaning agent? Thanks for the feed back! ??

 

[natdscott]

Crap.

Doesn’t remove copper except by abrasive action of a brush.

 

[fdkay]

CLP is a shitty cleaner, decent lubricant and decent protectant.
It is not goods at anything except making a mess.
The easiest way I've found to clean a bore is to run a few wet patches of No 9, dry patch then foaming bore cleaner. Let that sit for a couple of hours then patch it, followed by wet patches of No 9, let that sit, dry patch then follow that up with a wet patch of alcohol (I store mine dry) otherwise, you can leave No 9 in the bore and patch it before you shoot.

 

[TheGerman]

If you put water down the barrel and swab after, you'll get something to show up on your patch too.

 

[natdscott]

And since they removed the nitrobenzene, No. 9 hasn’t been worth a damn for anything serious except prom night.