Firearms Maintenance expertise and recommendations for the firearms user community, from step-by-step directions to just sharing years of experience.


  • Air Rifle Care is Important but Different than Firearms

    The most common air rifle calibers are .177, .20, .22, and .25, with even larger rounds available, including those used for less lethal law enforcement applications. Air rifles are not legally considered firearms, at least not equal legally in most terms, but there are very obvious differences, such as the method of propulsion, “air” having…

  • Shot Show showcases Firearms Industry Innovations

    Tetra Gun always looks forward to exhibiting at the Shot Show and 2025 is no different. And, as one of the show’s oldest running exhibitors, we have become a fixture so its important not to let it get stale. Reconnecting with customers including those from around the world makes the gun industry’s biggest event that…

  • Down the Barrel: Shotgun Shooting and then Cleaning that 12 Gauge Bore

    Out for deer hunting, or maybe range time for some skeet shooting or clays. Even after a few rounds, you want to at least dry swab out any light carbon fouling. If you let it sit, accumulation will fester. The easiest product we have is the 34″ Bore Mop Rod which is simply a full…

  • Tetra Gun Cleaning & Lubricant Formula Checklist and overall Product Review

    Tetra is best known for its flagship Tetra Gun Grease, Tetra Lubricant, Triple Action CLP and Lubricating Wipes, as well as the Gun Lube Spray and Action Blaster cleaner degreaser aerosols – in other words, core chemicals. The foaming bore solvent has grown in popularity in recent years, not to mention the new Suppressor Cleaner…

  • Gun Cleaning Instructions

    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: There are so many choices out there when you go to a gun shop and look to pick a gun…

  • Adventures in Gun Cleaning

    Legendary Bloopers, Blunders and Missteps by those who are so overconfident in maintaining guns the wrong way while blaming others for their subsequent failures. Is it ego, machoism or a resistance to common sense. Don’t care, or worse yet, as the funny movie line from Billy Madison goes (and I paraphrase) “… Everyone is now…