Cleaning after shooting corrosive ammo what's your trick?

[Sportsdad60]

Thompson Center T17 Black Powder bore SOLVENT.
This stuff is environmentally safe and works great IMO.

[Johnny P]

The ammonia in the Windex only dilutes the water. It is the water that dissolves the salts.

[Allen]

The ammonia in the Windex only dilutes the water. It is the water that dissolves the salts.

When I worked at the refinery some of our large hydrogen compressors would salt up. When suction pressures would drop off we would remove the spool piece on the suction side of the compressors. Inside was a screen that would be salted up due to the process that it was used for. We would spray the screen with water using a fire hose and the salts would quickly dissolve. Then we would air dry using a large air hose @150psi and place everything back into service.

I don't see firearms being any different except perhaps helping the cleaning along with a bore brush afterward giving the gun a coat of WD-40 to displace any left over water and finally putting on a coat of oil or protective coating of your choice. It's the way I do it anyway. I consider any foreign ammo (even the new stuff) that is berdan primed to be corrosive no matter what is stated on the box and treat it as such.