Posted October 9, 2018 6:58 am by Comments

By James Rummel

I just received a heads up about a new product on the market from long time reader Greg. (Thanks, Greg!) It appears to be a shotgun shell loaded with cotton wadding and, perhaps, a solid disk of wax. Load a shell, fire it in your shotgun, and the bore inside the barrel is buffed nice and clean.

The product is offered by a company named Huntego, which you might have guessed by the picture above. These shells were reviewed by The Firearm Blog back in 2017, and they certainly seem to think they work. Of course, there is no reason why they shouldn’t.

The idea of using a projectile to clean the bore of a firearm is certainly nothing new. It was a subject of some interest back when black powder was being used as a propellant.

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See all that white smoke? That is black powder residue, and it coats any gun that uses black powder with every shot fired. If one is using traditional black powder, it doesn’t take too many bangs before the inside of the barrel starts to get …Read the Rest

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