I use nothing but GooGone for bore cleaning and I look at cleaning the bore in one of two ways.
Cleaning the bore normal cleaning
One way to do it is to use is a piece of trimmer line, the plastic or nylon line used on grass trimmers, cut to the length that is best for you, heat it on one end to create a small ball and on the other end cut it to a point. Then using .22 bore cleaning patches, push the sharp end of the line through the patch(s) (you may need to punch a hole in the patches with a small nail or something similar),
By the way, the bore doesn't have to be cleaned very often, maybe every three or four tins of pellets and then use just dry pull through patches unless it is really bad and needs to be Strip Cleaned. The lead deposits accumulated in the bore act as a lube as well as a seal for the pellets and can increase both accuracy and velocity.
Strip Cleaning
This doesn't need to be done often and when done, the barrel will need to be "reseasoned if you will" and usually the takes a hundred or so shot. The best thing to use for strip cleaning the bore is GooGone. You can find it at just about any hardware store, Wal-Marts and K-marts, and places like Home Depot or Lowe’s. Put some GooGone on the patches and pull them through the bore. Do this several times first with the ones with the GooGone and then dry patches until they come through clean. The barrel will then need to be seasoned again shooting a hundred or more pellets through it.
Jist da way I doit....
