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


  • 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…

  • Politics, Religion, Patriotism, Society, Community, Guns

    I hope I covered most of everything with this blog title. Just trying to make sure I get everyone’s attention. This latest election shows us that believing in the second amendment is not exclusively appreciated by MAGA Republicans. I think my faith is restored if not renewed in America overall as the majority of people…

  • Handgun Care Basics Video: How to Clean and Lube a Glock

    This is a short video of a partially disassembled Glock pistol showing gun owners how to use light duty cleaner and gun lube products after a shoot. Remove carbon fouling, followed by bore conditioning and lubing all friction points and exposed surfaces of gunmetal, using common firearms maintenance accessories. Courtesy of Tetra Gun care, the…

  • Stop Using Low Tech, Old School Gun Solvents and Gun Oils

    The case for being smarter as a gun owner to improve maintenance As a consumer, you may be as compelled as your grandfather to use a gun solvent that smells a certain way, and reminds you of a childhood experience with the old man. I appreciate the nostalgia, but it doesn’t serve you well. You…

  • Step by Step Gun Cleaning and Lubrication Guide

    Clean out a gun bore with Copper Solvent to eat up hard fouling. You want to remove it before lubricating because you want to apply lube to clean, dry parts. Run a bore mop or cotton patches saturated with the bore solvent liquid. Cleaner degreaser aerosol is another form of gun solvent that is great…