Tag: guns
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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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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…
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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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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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Essential Gun Care Products
Basic advice for newbies, novices or gun owners who have procrastinated until very recently. Either way, welcome aboard. Before I forget, remember to keep personal safety in mind. Take some Hands-On Lead Removal Wipes to the range so that you can remove powder fouling from your hands before leaving, and definitely before eating. After action…
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Firearm Maintenance Checklist for Essentials
Products that are universally used by Handgun, Rifle and Shotgun users Gun Lubricant – gun grease, gun lube or CLP oil, and don’t forget gun spray Gun Cleaner – bore solvent, cleaner degreaser, aerosol spray, copper solvent Gunmetal Finishing Products – cold bluing, blue and rust remover Gun Cleaning Rod – portable / sectional, or…
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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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