Tag: cleaning
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Step by Step Firearm Cleaning and Lube 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…
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Gun Maintenance Chemical Product Information Guide
Grease, oil, cleaner, solvent, buildup, residue, fouling, lubrication. These are all terms that come up when considering which way to go in conducting firearm maintenance. It can be confusing so here is a little bit of an education on the basics in understand the different types of gun cleaning products and firearm lubes alike. Preventing…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Black Powder Hunters and Bore Cleaning Effectively
Tetra Gun care offers tried and true cleaners and lubricants for shooters Thompson Center T17 black powder cleaning products, from the bore solvent and pre-saturated patches to the foaming bore solvent aerosol have been around for decades, but they might be off the market now. The Tetra Gun Carbon Cleaner series is the nearly identical…
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Choosing Best Gun Solvent
Cleaning is the first step in maintaining a firearm to operate reliably Traditional bore solvent, in name, is an aggressive material that will dissolve or at least remove powder fouling and hard fouling like copper residue from gunmetal. Sometimes, active shooters will refer to this phenomenon as burn or crud that can potentially freeze up…
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How To Clean Guns
Use common sense as a foundation for deciding how you go about cleaning and ultimately lubricating your firearms while not overthinking it with fake news from internet narcissists and other clueless big mouths When you think of gun care, it almost always begins with the barrel, but really you should be focused on the inside…
