What Do You Clean Your Weapon With

[wunderkind]

Breakfree or WeaponShield CLP on a patch wrapped around a stiff bristled toothbrush for the action while the barrel is soaking in CLP. Once action (or slide on handgun) is done, 4-5 passes with the correct size Bore Snake. Can clean handguns in 5-7 minutes and long guns in 10 minutes.

 

[snatale42]

Hoppes and Ballistol (Different guns)

 

[Jonah71]

Hoppes #9 and Break Free.

 

[mustang_steve]

Hoppes no9 for most cleaning. To clear out significant copper foulingl, KG12. To lubricate, Hoppes oil.

That's it. To this day, I have not seen a single copper solvent on par with KG12. you can put a soaked patch in a bore that has actual jacket fragments pressure-fused to the rifling, and it will be gone by that time tomorrow.

 

[RugerBob]

WD-40 or Rem-oil. Whatever is closer. I shoot mostly lead and have not seen any lead fouling.

 

[bannockburn]

Quick spray down with WD-40, then Hoppes No. 9 and RemOil when I'm done.

 

[Heretic]

WD-40 unless I'm shooting corrosive, then it's household ammonia and then WD-40. Aftercoat with regular motor oil. Nuthin' fancy.

 

[HGUNHNTR]

I have found that Breakfree does a wonderful job of cleaning, lubing and protecting copper fouling, but it sure doesn't remove it. I used sweets or Butches to remove copper, and a proper lube for lubrication.

 

[Sweet]

Ballistol

 

[kayak-man]

Balistol.

Chris "the Kayak-Man" Johnson

 

[Backwoodsmike]

? I used brake free for my 795 as lub but this stuff seems to never dry and after shooting all the powder and such sticks to the inside of my gun is this normal?

 

[SFsc616171]

Ballistol.

 

[gathert]

Hoppes #9 and Rem Oil if I need it. RIG for metal duties. Has done me right since day one.

 

[Sky]

Corrosive Ammo I use Windex and sometimes break cleaner or hoppe's #9 copper solvent and Breakfree CLP as a lube and rust preventive. Windex on everything then dry and CLP. Normal non corrosive ammo cleaning, (depending on how much shooting I am doing with a particular firearm) I will run Hops #9 down the barrel let it sit for a while and check for color of swab to see if there is more action required. If no fouling then swab with Breakfree CLP clean and lube as usual.
All my rifles and pistols get the same treatment with no problems that I have detected.

http://www.thegunzone.com/rust.html is a test run with different lubes in a salt environment enough said!.

There are many good products available and on a good day I could afford some of the more dedicated gun lube products. My personal experience with the Breakfree CLP is it has not let me or my friends down. Years of no rust or problems for us so why change.

 

[elano]

Balistol for everything, wax on the outside. Car axle grease for slides and certain parts.

 

[FTG-05]

For cleaning, my version of Ed's Red: 50/50 mix of Kroil and Amsoil synthetic ATF fluid.

For lubrication: a mix of the last of my old CLP and Mobil 1 10W-30 synthetic motor oil.

For rifles, I'll sometimes us the non-embedding bore paste someone mentioned earlier (got it from Brownell's years ago).

 

[Doxiedad]

Slip2000 EWL for everything, Glocks, AR15, 12Ga

 

[pockets]

I clean my 'weapon' with the same stuff I clean my 'plinking', 'target', and 'general-messing-around' firearms.

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[BADUNAME37]

Hoppes 9 and CLP-BreakFree

 

[84B20]

I used to use CLP but found a better product, IMHO. I don’t like the way it continues to ooze out of any opening it can find. I now use Gun Scrubber (synthetic) to clean my guns and Gun Butter to lube them. As an example, I just took a week of training at Front Sight, four days of handgun and two days of rifle. I lubed my 1911 and my M4 about a month before leaving. I did a quick test fire of both at my local range before I left but didn't clean either. I went the whole week without even wiping either gun between each session and never had so much as a FTF or FTE the whole time. I’m talking about 500 rounds of .45acp and about 200 rounds of 5.56. I am really sold on the product. And no, I’m not associated with the company.

 

[george d dennis]

hoppes and rig grease

 

[Lonestar49]

...

One word - Eezox


Ls

 

[84B20]

...

One word - Eezox


Ls

I used to use Eezox also and it is great stuff but like CLP it too seeps out of any opening it can find. Gun Butter stays where it's put.

 

[dprice3844444]

fyi,wd-40 should not be used around firearms.it penetrated and kills primers.as far as cleaning my glocks and stainless ruger black powder pistols.i diassemble them and place them in the utencil tray of the dishwasher,pop in a blue electrasol tablet, and let it rip.rem oil to finish

 

[withdrawn34]

Hoppes 9 and/or Breakfree Powderblast depending on the circumstance. I also have a can of Breakfree CLP that I don't use too much anymore, but do on occasion.

Primary lube is WeaponShield. I use Dexron VI ATF on my shotgun. I also have some Mobil 1 5w20 left over that I used to use on my shotgun. No complaints; that action moved like melted butter with M1.

With my handguns, thoguh, I usually just use WeaponShield to clean and lube. Once in a while I'll pull out the Hoppes, but WS does a pretty ok job of keeping things easy to clean if you clean it after each or every other range session.