Tag: firearms
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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…
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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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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…
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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…
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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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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…
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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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New Products from Tetra Gun care
Tetra Gun has a new formula that is really better than NSN grade and over-engineered even for military applications, so you can rest assured it will optimize smooth operator performance for any firearm. Not just belt fed. Obex Prime light grease should be polished in to gunmetal parts until not visible, or a gloss on…
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Best Handgun Cleaning Mat
Tetra Gun’s new handgun cleaning mat is simple and straightforward. Value priced, clean design, and it works. Professional gun care, not pretentious. Made of chemical resistant silicone, the new Tetra Gun mat is flexible enough to roll up and store easily. Plus, it features a hang tag and partition lines for better organizing your gun…
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Gun Parts and Addressing Carbon Fouling on Firearms
When it comes to handguns, powder residue can be found, to some degree, all over the gunmetal surfaces as well as on polymer and other firearm materials. To ensure for a properly operating piece of hardware, you need to keep key friction points and sliding surfaces as free of debris as possible. Cleaning is fine,…
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