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.

[Lazamataz]

Wish we had thought of that.

[Liberty Valance]

Hoppes? Yes, the technology has definitely changed ... since we discovered Dierdre!

Dierdre Imus cleans guns good -

She's Clean, Green ... and doesn't mind getting down into the nooks and crannies
no matter what age your firearm is.

She's a little spendy but well worth it ... Just ask Don!

[onyx]

LOLOLOL.
I missed seeing you do that!

[Lazamataz]

:)

It would have been great Classic Freeper Video.... :)

[onyx]

LOL & ^5
YOUR bacon is heavenly! (Gee, I hope nobody takes this wrong). I am referencing the heavenly sugar, cayenne bacon!

[onyx]

Next year!
LOLOLOLOL.

[The Cajun]

Bookmark.

[wagglebee]

The thing I've found works best with the Mosins is to plug one end with a rubber stopper, fill the barrel with Hoppes, stand it on end in a bucket and leave it overnight.

[Bacon Man]

One should exercise caution when tongue cleaning the follower of the M1 Garand. Garand tongue is far worse than Garand thumb.

[Lazamataz]

One should exercise caution when tongue cleaning the follower of the M1 Garand. Garand tongue is far worse than Garand thumb.

Oh, don't I know it. I ended up needing extensive dental work after cleaning my DCM Garand.

[humblegunner]

I might try that, right now it would use more Hoppes than I have.

I just fired it last weekend, this time I’m adjusting the technique:

1. Hot soapy water brush, repeat, oil. Leave overnight.
2. Oil brush, repeat, oil. Leave overnight.
3. Bore cleaner patch, repeat several, oil. Leave overnight.
4. Repeat #3, case and store.

We shall see.

[NationalistVisionary]

You know I don’t trust dishwashers.

It was hard, but I did find one that I can trust. She is the love of my life. And she can cook!

[Bacon Man]

Oh, don't I know it. I ended up needing extensive dental work after cleaning my DCM Garand.

The worst part is ... I keep doing it. It's just sooo tasty!

[wagglebee]

I'm not actually sure they even need to be cleaned.

I've got a friend who has never done anything more than put a bore snake through his and hasn't had a problem with over 5000 rounds.

[humblegunner]

Well, if them Mosey’s were delicate we wouldn’t still be firing them 70 years later.

It just nags at me when I have a weapon with a grubby barrel.

[wagglebee]

I think it has something to do with the grease the commies had them in for decades.

[IM2MAD]

I’d llike to know what we can use to clean Obama’s clock.

[Professional Engineer]

I’ve tried Hoppes, soapy vasser, bore cleaner, Windex.. I’m still cleaning the thing for a week until I give up.

I used Butch's Bore Shine and 338 brush to finally get a MN clean.

I'm not sure about Laz's method...

[smokingfrog]

I’d like to know what we can use to clean Obama’s clock.

[hockea]

I have used EDTA and acetonitrile dissolved in ethanol for years; stopper the chamber, fill the bore and leave in a very well ventilated area (read outside) WD40 in the morning as the ethanol usually comes from distilled spirits.