How do you clean a gun?
I was just watching some videos on youtube and watched how other folks cleaned their firearms on there. I have never been around another person that knew anything about guns when I've cleaned him except for my brother. We both learned from my father so we use the same method.
Usually I strip my firearm down to parts. Anytime I fire one of my guns I run a wire brush dipped in Hoppes down my barrel then run patchs down it. Rinse and repeat until entirely clean. After that I use a silcone cloth to wipe the dirty parts and use a toothbrush or Q-tip to get all the places. Then after that I use a different silcone cloth to oil it up a light amount and put it back together.
Some folks in those videos used a patch and CLP instead of a wire brush to run down their barrels and I wonder just how clean their barrels are getting. I've never used CLP personally and not sure what it is exactly.
Usually I strip my firearm down to parts. Anytime I fire one of my guns I run a wire brush dipped in Hoppes down my barrel then run patchs down it. Rinse and repeat until entirely clean. After that I use a silcone cloth to wipe the dirty parts and use a toothbrush or Q-tip to get all the places. Then after that I use a different silcone cloth to oil it up a light amount and put it back together.
Some folks in those videos used a patch and CLP instead of a wire brush to run down their barrels and I wonder just how clean their barrels are getting. I've never used CLP personally and not sure what it is exactly.
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Tupperware owners just use a dishwasher. [}:)][;)][:D][:D] 0 -
I use boresnakes, coated with either Hoppes or Sweets 7.62 (for the corrosive stuff). I haven't done the whole patch and cleaning rod rigamarole for months... mainly because I don't own a cleaning rod.
I find boresnakes to be just as good, if not better than patches. I can get extremely shiny, bright bores with just a couple passes with the boresnake. Also, I dont have to worry about scratching my bore or hurting the crown of the barrel.
Im probably doing something horribly wrong and someone will call me out on it, but for now the boresnakes seem to be serving just fine.0 -
I tear mine down completely, spray down the areas that I know get dirty with brake/parts cleaner, run a bore snake partially soaked in Hoppe's 9 down the barrel a couple times until it's shiny, wipe down with gun oil anything that I sprayed with parts cleaner, inspect everything for carbon and copper deposits and scrape accordingly, re-oil everything that got extra attention, wipe down everything that I oiled with a dry rag and reassemble. 0 -
I threw a Glock in a Maytag dishwasher once, worked pretty good 0 -
toothbrush, clp, rag, and a boresnake. 0 -
I dip a bronze brush in hoppes #9 and run it through a few times,
run patches through until they come out clean,
again dip a bronze brush in hoppes #9 and run it through a few times,
again run patches through until they come out clean,
and can repeat the process 1000 times and still be getting fouling out of the barrel. drives me nuts.0 -
Pistols
Brush soaked in Hoppes #9 or BC's BoreScrubber
then wet patch, then dry patch. Until clean.
Rifles,
pour sweets down the barrel, let sit for 5 minutes. One peice Dewey rod with Dewey jag and dry patch. Then a patch of Hoppes #9. Repeat until no more copper fouling(blue).
All guns get a coat of CLP then lightly wiped off. Bores get a wet patch of Gibbs oil before being stored for long periods of time.0 -
quote:Originally posted by buschmaster
I dip a bronze brush in hoppes #9 and run it through a few times,
run patches through until they come out clean,
again dip a bronze brush in hoppes #9 and run it through a few times,
again run patches through until they come out clean,
and can repeat the process 1000 times and still be getting fouling out of the barrel. drives me nuts.
I'm not sure if this was written "tongue in cheek" or not.
Bronze bore brushes are about 95% COPPER - of course it appears that you are getting "fouling" (the patch is blue/green) when you run a patch through the barrel after using a brush.
Foaming Bore Cleaner is good stuff.
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I strip the guns down and clean the parts with Hoppes #9, but I do clean the barrels with boresnakes. I find that they do a superior job to just about everything else I've tried. The bores come out super-shiney. I then run a patch with oil through the barrels to give them a protective coating. 0 -
Kodiakk
To answer one of your questions. C-clean, L-lube, P-protect all in one product. I've use Breakfree CLP and have no problems with it. I believe it was first made for military specs. To keep from carrying 3 different items.0 -
WHAT!!!!
You gotta clean them?0 -
...Dewey rods and jags. Damp patch with first thing I grab, CLP, Butchs, Hoppes, , GI. Couple of passes w/another patch soaked in one of the cleaners. Time to make another batch of "Ed's Red"...[8D]
...Dry patches until clean and dry. Pass w/CLP bore oil, Rem oil...then patches until bore is "dry". Thin coat of Tetra on rails and some other internals.
...I clean all the metal w/one of the cleaners, then oil and "dry".
Then I Flitz all the outside metal suface...I love Flitz...[;)]
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For the record, CLP only does 2 of it's supposed 3 jobs. It lubricates and protects something wonderful, but it's piss poor when it comes to cleaning. 0 -
i found military CLP to be an excellent cleaner, just took a little elbow grease. 0
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