What Do You Use To Clean Your Firearms?

Vanity | 10/11/12 | Randy Larsen

[Randy Larsen]

Free Republic has had many vanities about which gun to buy. I'm wondering what gun cleaning supplies do you depend on to protect your expensive firearms.

[muir_redwoods]

Let me know if you can convince the BATFE (or whatever they’re called these days) to dive for them

[USNBandit]

Only his intimate areas..:)

[JRandomFreeper]

Sometimes. This time of year, I normally let my beard grow out for winter.

/johnny

[RobertClark]

Hoppes #9. I’ll never change from it regardless of how much solvent technology “improves”. It just works!

[50cal Smokepole]

For all except muzzleloaders, it’s Hoppe’s for the bore and Breakfree CLP. Caution: When using any copper solvents like Hoppe’s on a chromed bore, be sure to get ALL the solvent out. Most chromed barrels have a copper layer under the chrome (part of the chroming process). Any imperfection in the chrome will let the solvent get at the copper if given enough time. It’ll ruin a bore and your day.

For muzzleloaders, I use a homemade mix of equal parts isopropyl alcohol and blue juice (windshield washer fluid). Cuts the crud better and dries a whole lot faster than water-based solvents (or spit, but sometimes that’s all that’s available…)

[B-Cause]

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[USNBandit]

To go after hard core bore corrosion you may have to go to JB bore cleaner. It has an abrasive. I have only used it to break in barrels by the manufacturer’s instructions or attempts at reconditioning really old barrels. My father thought of it as a last resort, but I don’t think it’s that bad.

[Zenjitsuman]

I use a heat gun and apply Froglube. Its a product an Navy Seal invented and the Seals use it.

The Froglube bonds with the metal when heated and coats the
finish and bore. After shooting several hundred rounds, all
you have to do is run a dry patch thru the bore and the
fouling just flakes off and the bore is clean.

It even makes rounds travel up to 7% faster.

[longhorn too]

“Hoppes. I also use it for aftershave.”

So that’s how you catch all the babes!!!!!!!!

[Vendome]

Hopes 9, Winchester, Breakfree, whatever.

Just clean and clean and clean til the little white thingys come out white.

[Randy Larsen]

Bump

[dainbramaged]

Just the smell of Hoppe’s takes me back to deer camp 50 years ago - with Dad and my brother cleaning our rifles, cooking up some fresh backstrap for supper. It’s a fine solvent, along with Outer’s gun oil and a fresh silicone impregnated cloth for a final wipe down.

[Terry L Smith]

I use Ballistol, the usual rods, bore brushes, old toothbrushes, cleaning patches. I tried a ‘boresnake’, but it broke, while in the barrel.

There is a YouTube video by Hickok45 titled, “Cleaning Revolvers”, but he goes into the Ballistol product, too.

My ‘local armorer’ was the one who turned me onto the stuff.

[jboot]

Clean within two hours of firing with lots of hot water (it’s OK to use cold water but hot water evaporates faster). After that clean out the gilding metal with a copper solvent (Hoppes is fine) and finish the job with WD-40. Yes, I said WD-40. WD-40 is an EXCELLENT rust preventative but a terrible lubricant and loses effectiveness rapidly with age. Be sure to lubricate only with a quality gun oil, and swab the barrel with fresh WD-40 every six months. You shouldn’t have any more rust trouble,

[Tijeras_Slim]

Hoppes 9 for general purpose, and nostalgia. For gas operated guns where carbon buildup is a problem, M-Pro7 works great.

[Kimmers]

as a wife and a mom to three gun shootin sons and one gun shooting husband it is Hoppes and I love the smell ....I wish they made a Hoppes diffuser....

[oneolcop]

I’ll never be the same.

[RandallFlagg]

LOL!

Good on you for using the words, “Ballistol,” and, “Hickok45,” in the same post.

We walk the same path.

[FreedomPoster]

>>Bore Snake & Hoppes #9

This.

[jboot]

I have bought space-age rust preventatives for $20 an ounce, and all kinds of miracle cleaning products, etc. Nothing beats Hoppes products for general cleaning. WD-40 works great to protect the bore. I use CLP for lubrication, but Hoppes or Rem-Oil work great.

Probably the only thing that could still stand to be improved is copper solvents. I use Hoppes Copper Solvent, but it is weak as water. Straight ammonia works great but it will peel your eyes and you need to be snappy about cleanup to prevent corrosion.