Tag: shooting
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Gun Care Talk: Tricks and Work-Arounds in a Pinch
Sometimes I hear about people having trouble with accessory brushes not easily fitting cleaning rods. Well … Try lubing the brush threads. Magic. Less resistance. Good to go. Look carefully to make sure the threading isn’t mashed. That is a problem. If the brush or more likely a loaded patch holder isn’t moving thru easy…
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Solving Problems For Gun Owner Customers New and Old
Tetra Gun has been in business for 40 years now serving the greater firearms industry as well as other outdoor sports and industrial markets. Of course, as is the case, new gun owners find us and hopefully solve their problems with figuring out best practices in cleaning and lubricating gunmetal. At the IWA Outdoor Classics…
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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: If you leave solvent residue, what happens next is on you. By nature, bore solvent is designed to eat residue,…
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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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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…
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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…
