Click here to download the catalog as a PDF file. To view this site you need Adobe Flash Player and your browser must allow javaScripts. Go here to get the latest Flash Player. Uppers for Your AR Lower .50 BMG .416 Barrett .338 Lapua No Background Check Shipped Direct to You • Jeff John • Starting at $1598 Q: I’ve heard copper removers used to clean the barrel will remove the nickelA: It’s true. Soaking a gun in any of the available copper solvents with plated finish on guns. Is this true? If yes, how do you clean a nickel-plated gun? Ed Sharp Woodland Hills, Calif. and generally use it to clean all my cast bullet and .22 LR guns, plated or not. Prolix on a tight patch often will lift lead right out of the grooves, too, without resorting to a bore brush, although stubborn deposits may require a brush. This doesn’t mean you can’t use copper removers on your nickel-plated guns, just make sure you remove all traces of them before storing them away or you may find yourself in for an ugly surprise. I don’t like to tempt Murphy, so when I clean copper fouling from a nickelplated firearm’s barrel, I use a 1-caliber undersize bore brush wrapped with a patch covered with J-B Bore Paste (Now made by Brownells) and squirted with Prolix. PROLIx P.O. BOx 1348 VICTORVILLE, CA 92393 (800) 248-5823 WWW.PROLIxLUBRICANT.COM BROWNELLS 200 SOUTH FRONT STREET MONTEzUMA, IOWA 50171 (641) 623-4000, WWW.BROWNELLS.COM ammonia in them can destroy a nickel finish. Nickel plate doesn’t bond well to steel and is layered over a copper under plate. Given a chance, the bore solvents attack the copper underneath, lifting the nickel. I use Prolix on my nickel-plated guns TA C T I L I T E www .tactilite.com Zel C ustom Mfg . Jeff uses Prolix exclusively to clean his nickelplated firearms like this S&W .45 Colt. Note the two shiny chunks of lead removed from the bore by the patch. Rarely is the brass bore brush employed and usually only for stubborn deposits around the forcing cone. (303) 353-1473 www.tactilite.com 40 Questions and Answers Due to the volume of mail received, GUNS cannot offer a personal reply. Please e-mail your question to ed@gunsmagazine.com or snail mail to: GUNS Q&A, 12345 World Trade Drive, San Diego, CA 92128 WWW.GUNSMAGAZINE.COM • NOVEMBER 2009