Gun Cleaning-What do you use?

[jimbo]

Lucas CLP seems to work great for my needs.
been using that for years.

Me too!

 

[lite_sleepr]

A lot of options now days.
But reason I ask is I looked at my shelf the other day and I have bottlles and pastes and creams of stuff I havent touched in years. It was taking up a lot of shelf space for something never used.
Pulled all of them down and boxed it up. Going to a friend that will use.

Over the years I slowly and with great skepticism migrated to three products and that is all I use anymore. Period. Correction, four products.
I use Bore Tech Carbon Cleaner, Eliminator and Copper Remover exclusively anymore.
For heavily fouled ASR's and muzzel breaks I use CLR with a little scrubbing now and then till clean.

I do have an Vevor ultrasonic cleaner but find I end up scaping and picking and redoing most heavily fouled parts, so I just use the carbon cleaner and be done with it. Easier, quicker and I don't have to clean the ultrasonic.

Disclaimer:
In no way is this an advertisment of Bore Tech.
I have used Hoppes, J-B, Butch's, Sharp Shoot R and countless others with success.

Automatic Transmission Fluid and a basic cleaning kit.

I'm still using the same quart of ATF I bought 12 years ago.

 

[Gordo]

I use Red LocTite, keeps the actions nice and tight.

 

[leVieux]

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Please don’t forget the first step, remove ALL cartridges.

I know I’m preaching to the choir here, but the number of times I heard this 40 years back, when I was an Emergency Physician, was beyond amusing: “I was just cleaning my gun when it went off!”

My own sainted ex-brother-in-law, who KNEW BETTER, shot one of the little Indians in a Western Movie on TV while “cleaning his gun”. IIRC, Ethanol was a factor. No, he wasn’t using Ethanol to clean his gun, but it should work well for that, too.

Sis-in-Law told quite a different tale of the event.

Stay SAFE, Y’all !

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[popper]

Interesting. Son gave me 4 packs of a corrosion preventer. Cortec VpCI-105. Vapor prevention, won't hurt optics(web site says). Put one in the safe today. Usually Ed's Red minus acetone for cast. Some new non-ammonia stuff for jacketed.

 

[HKSig]

Please don’t forget the first step, remove ALL cartridges.

Too bad Hot Wells didn't know that.