Cleaning Day

[Hornedfrogbbq]

I clean a few rifles and shotguns during the year when I start to see deterioration in accuracy or cycling. But at least once a year, I get everything out and clean them all. It is a day full of war movies and gun cleaning and I look forward to it annually. Today (and maybe tomorrow) are the days.

Anyone else like to get the "sticks that breathe fire" out, disassemble and reassemble all clean and oiled properly (which is pretty dry for me personally). I even have some new products to try out.

 

[Tundra Tiger]

I clean a few rifles and ahotguns during the year when I start to see defecation in accuracy or cycling. But at least once a year, I get everything out and clean them all. It is a day full of war movies and gun cleaning and I look forward to it annually. Today (and maybe tomorrow) are the days.

Anyone else like to get the "sticks that breathe fire" out, disassemble and reassemble all clean and oiled properly (which is pretty dry for me personally). I even have some new products to try out.

I sincerely applaud your efforts, and wish you an enjoyable day.

We all have different approaches to cleaning. I remember Boddington talking about a buddy of his who claimed to have never, ever cleaned his BAR, despite hunting the globe with it.

I think I am somewhere in the middle, cleaning them as needed - or my perception of 'as needed'.

I am similarly spending my day - watching movies (it's blowing and raining hard). But instead of cleaning guns I am going through hunting gear ahead of a September goat hunt, identifying supplies I need to shore up and tweaking my packing list.

Enjoy your day sir.

 

[Hornedfrogbbq]

Waiting patiently...there are an even dozen to try and get thru this weekend.

 

[Rimbaud]

I clean a few rifles and shotguns during the year when I start to see deterioration in accuracy or cycling. But at least once a year, I get everything out and clean them all. It is a day full of war movies and gun cleaning and I look forward to it annually. Today (and maybe tomorrow) are the days.

Anyone else like to get the "sticks that breathe fire" out, disassemble and reassemble all clean and oiled properly (which is pretty dry for me personally). I even have some new products to try out.

What’s your cleaning protocol? Always curious about this. I use BoreTech cleaners, and rods made by them, and Dewey, chamber guards, etc. I tend to clean hunting rifles at the end of season, but precision rifles from match to match (usually).

 

[Miletic]

I make sure to clean the weapon after every shot. If I don't shoot from the outside, I wipe it with paper oiled with Ballistol. When I shoot, I first pass a dry cloth through the barrel, and then an oiled one with Ballistol. I wait 5 minutes and put a clean cloth through it again. Repeat the procedure once more. If I don't do this, I feel that I have betrayed the weapon. I can't sleep peacefully without it
I use a stick and brushes. When I am in the field for several days,use the Bore snake. With it, I often first clean the dirty pipe before starting to apply oil.
Also clean shotguns like a snake. When I finish cleaning,wash the snake with warm water and some detergent. Optical lenses first clean with a brush,after that spray them with window cleaner (I also have the original Zeiss cleaner) and wipe them with toilet paper. In the end of the season, I clean all the barrels with a string and a thick cloth, so that it squeaks as I pull it through. Then I leave a thin layer of oil in the tube to protect it until the beginning of the new season. Also smear a little more on the outside of all metal parts. wooden parts smear with Robla solo or Cantarion oil. So I put the rifle cleaning in the cabinet with the barrels facing down

 

[steve white]

Dead of summer, cocooning from the heat sounds like a GREAT time to overhaul everything.

 

[Miletic]

Waiting patiently...there are an even dozen to try and get thru this weekend.

You need to clean these beauties right now !

 

[Hornedfrogbbq]

One additional piece of info - this wipe-out cleaner is like nothing I have ever used before. It is shocking.

 

[DieJager]

All my weapons rubbed dry with a cloth after hunting. A minimum of once a year pick them apart and oil them.

 

[Hornedfrogbbq]

What’s your cleaning protocol? Always curious about this. I use BoreTech cleaners, and rods made by them, and Dewey, chamber guards, etc. I tend to clean hunting rifles at the end of season, but precision rifles from match to match (usually).

I still have a bottle of 40 year old hoppes #9 that I have always used. Man, I freaking love the scent too. I have started using both Eliminator and the Wipeout with accelerator today and it is SHOCKING. The amount of copper fouling coming out is insane. Both Eliminator and Wipeout seem to bE working amazingly well. Sadly better than my old stand-by Hoppes.

For copper fouling I was using Butch's Bore Shine but these new products are unreal...never seen so much copper come out of a gun before.

Wipeout says not to use oil after it but I just can't not put a super thin coat of Rem oil down the barrels. The double rifles are done. 2 of the 3 .300WM are done. Slowly working my way through.

Just finished the movie Nuremberg. Now watching Wind Valley (skip it) and then off to a war movie of some kind.

 

[Ray B]

the problem with that is that it would carry-over into several days.

 

[rdog]

I still have a bottle of 40 year old hoppes #9 that I have always used. Man, I freaking love the scent too. I have started using both Eliminator and the Wipeout with accelerator today and it is SHOCKING. The amount of copper fouling coming out is insane. Both Eliminator and Wipeout seem to bE working amazingly well. Sadly better than my old stand-by Hoppes.

For copper fouling I was using Butch's Bore Shine but these new products are unreal...never seen so much copper come out of a gun before.

Wipeout says not to use oil after it but I just can't not put a super thin coat of Rem oil down the barrels. The double rifles are done. 2 of the 3 .300WM are done. Slowly working my way through.

Just finished the movie Nuremberg. Now watching Wind Valley (skip it) and then off to a war movie of some kind.

I clean a few rifles and shotguns during the year when I start to see deterioration in accuracy or cycling. But at least once a year, I get everything out and clean them all. It is a day full of war movies and gun cleaning and I look forward to it annually. Today (and maybe tomorrow) are the days.

Anyone else like to get the "sticks that breathe fire" out, disassemble and reassemble all clean and oiled properly (which is pretty dry for me personally). I even have some new products to try out.

Cleaning my rifles is process i go through ingrained in to me by the army, may be unnecessary but i am compelled to do it . Yesterday i shot a 22 RF match at the local range about 90 rounds this morning i will clean out the carbon out of the bore wipe over the metal work & put the rifle away . i may not use it fore a another month, on a 2 week hunting trip with a centerfire rifle i will wipe the rifle over every night & clean the bbl after may be 50 rounds, on a pig hunting trip to western QLD you shoot a lot of ammo.
I live in a semi tropical area about 5 km from the ocean in summer rifles & tools go rusty over night even stainless gun rust. looking at used guns in local gun shops i am surprised at the rust on some them. i can not sleep at nite with a dirty rifle . In Vietnam in the 1960s you were told look after your rifle & your feet as both will save your life . have lived by those rules all my life. I was a 50 BMG gunner on a M113 for some time that gun & me lived together i looked after it as well as i looked after my kids in later years, i loved that gun. Shooting it at night the tracers looked like red golf balls!

 

[BigGame]

Interesting thread. I thought I was the only one that did an annual cleaning day! Since they are clean from when I put them away. I run a couple of patches through them. 1) Butch's Bore Shine 2) clean bolt face 3) dry patch 4) Rem Oil patch 5) Wipe the entire gun with Rem Oil 6) Back in Safes

Please note: During this process my wife thinks I'm completely nuts and comments a lot about the mess I'm making in the house so I try to do it when she isn't home!

 

[Hornedfrogbbq]

Interesting thread. I thought I was the only one that did an annual cleaning day! Since they are clean from when I put them away. I run a couple of patches through them. 1) Butch's Bore Shine 2) clean bolt face 3) dry patch 4) Rem Oil patch 5) Wipe the entire gun with Rem Oil 6) Back in Safes

Please note: During this process my wife thinks I'm completely nuts and comments a lot about the mess I'm making in the house so I try to do it when she isn't home!

Funny - I am alone at home with the dogs in our house for about the 5th time in our 35 years of marriage. Violent movies and gun cleaning.

 

[steve white]

the problem with that is that it would carry-over into several days.

More than several days if you do stock refurbishing....dry weather is a great boon for that, though.

 

[BigGame]

Forgot to mention that I have to air the house out from the cleaning solution smell before she returns or a its a few days of can't you do that somewhere else. @Hornedfrogbbq remember to air house out!

 

[deewayne2003]

I still have a bottle of 40 year old hoppes #9 that I have always used. Man, I freaking love the scent too. I have started using both Eliminator and the Wipeout with accelerator today and it is SHOCKING. The amount of copper fouling coming out is insane. Both Eliminator and Wipeout seem to bE working amazingly well. Sadly better than my old stand-by Hoppes.

For copper fouling I was using Butch's Bore Shine but these new products are unreal...never seen so much copper come out of a gun before.

Wipeout says not to use oil after it but I just can't not put a super thin coat of Rem oil down the barrels. The double rifles are done. 2 of the 3 .300WM are done. Slowly working my way through.

Just finished the movie Nuremberg. Now watching Wind Valley (skip it) and then off to a war movie of some kind.

I used Montana Extreme to take all the copper out of my .470 barrels shortly after getting it- lesson learned it took 9rnds in each barrel for the groups to tighten up.

Now I just swab with Balistol in the bores and rub it down with the same.

As for the rest of them…yes, prefer a self produced Dirty Harry marathon while servicing weapons and clean not only the bores but disassemble the bolts and clean them too.

 

[SStomcat]

wooden parts smear with Robla solo or Cantarion oil. So I put the rifle cleaning in the cabinet with the barrels facing down

Isnt Robla solo a bore cleaning solvent?