Common sense guidance on how to be smart about how to take care of your firearms to ensure performance and protect your hardware properly

No matter what you are using, follow these points of advice:

1. Don’t clean with a strong solvent and think that you’re done.
   • If you leave solvent residue, what happens next is on you.
   • By nature, bore solvent is designed to eat residue, pre-existing lube and is almost always featuring a high pH like those terrible citrus cleaners that open the door to rust.
2. Prep gunmetal surface by removing solvent residue.
   • Use 91%+ isopropyl alcohol wipes and you will draw gun solvent off. You will see amber color or similar on that cotton.
   • The alcohol evaporate quickly and sets the stage for a more effective lubrication.
   • There are alternatives like using certain gun sprays to neutralize that solvent technology but you have to know without being a chemist, and you don’t want to become Dr. Frankenstein by making a bigger mess.
3. Lubricate your firearms with superior gun oil, gun grease or CLP.
   • There are differences, kind of like food choices, things are not equal. Some products are just healthier for your guns and perform better. It’s true.
   • Synthetic fluoropolymer gun lubricant when polished into gun parts will treat the metal surface – and under the surface – to better protect against buildup while smoothing out parts.
   • You need a barrier between two surfaces of metal to ensure a firearm stays in fire ready condition aka ultimate reliability means no jams, no interrupted action and running at max speed.

There are so many choices out there when you go to a gun shop and look to pick a gun cleaner or gun lube off the shelf.

Do you have a favorite brand of cleaner or firearms lubricant?

Do you know what the differences are?

Do you know how to properly use these products?

Do you even care? You should.

Many firearms owners do not pay attention to taking care of their investment, which astounds me, but they do care about bragging rights with their friends in showing off their new hot gun. So why not take care of it and preserve what you just said was special to you. Think about that. You saved up to buy it. You cherish it. Take care of it.

Gun store staff might be a good source of information as it relates to firearms maintenance, or not. So, do your own homework and don’t rely on one stranger.

Firearms prep before and after range time is important. These are ideal times since you are free to think about what you are doing as you handle your guns. Ideally, you want a primed gun and then you want to wipe down the firearms right after your shoot. That applies to handguns, rifles and shotguns, of course. After care, including gun storage is the next step.

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