What Solvent and Oil Do You Use?

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Solvents; Hoppe's #9 and Break Free Powder Blast.
Lubes; Military weapon grease in little vials, Machinegunner's lube, Hoppe's gun oil, LSA, CLP.
 
Cleaning: Hoppe's #9 for blued or stainless; Hoppe's elite for nickel plated.

Lube: Rem Oil, CLP, and a touch of gun grease on the slides of semiautos.
 
Sweets 7.62 for heavy fouling,,
Hoppe's #9 for a cleaner and lube..

We tried the BreakFree when it first came out, Hey Teflon, GOTTA be good... when we used it down the bores of our PPC match pistols, our scores dropped !!!

We put the back into a Ransom Rest, and ammo that was previously shooting MOA and less, was now doubling the size of our groups... after we putt about 200 rounds of wadcutter through the bores, our groups came back.. So, I love BreakFree for lubing slides and actions, but dang it I will ever put it down another bore,,, just my personal experience, and it was with three different Douglas, and Shilen barreled K-Frames.. all three same results, same cure... Just my own observations.. Other than down the barrel, Breakfree is good stuff..
 
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I'm surprised Shooter's Choice fp-10 isn't used more. I love that stuff!

I also have CLP, Hoppe's, Browning, & Outer's around the bench as well.
 
I heard that Weapon Shield was developed by the same guy that did FP-10. Might be worth a look. It seems very effective from my experience.
 
I use FP-10 as a lubricant and Hoppe's No. 9 and Butch's Bore Shine for cleaning. FP-10 seems to last the longest for me and it doesn't gunk up over time. I use it in really tiny amounts and it works very well.
 
There are several good CLP's on the market today. I've had excellent results with both Eezox and Breakfree.
 
RemOil gums up; nasty stuff.
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Gonna have to throw the b.s. flag here. Rem-oils biggest asset is it's so thin it doesn't gum. If you have gumming it's likely grease or old oil the Rem-oil has dissolved.
 
I second the b.s. flag on Rem oil gumming up. I have been liberally using it on my guns for a couple of decades. I have never had it gum up.
 
Winchester CLP at Walmart, $3.97 for a aerosol can, its cheap, cleans, lubes and protects. Its all you really need.
 
I use...

Butch's bore shine solvent and gunslick oils.

I love the gunslick pre-oiled wipes for quick wipe downs.
 
And then if you are going to a wet nasty place like Alaska to hunt something, try Boe-Shield TO9. It will cling to metal like nobody's business (designed for open landing gear protection on icy and snowy runways) and it'll keep the rust away. Drys to a decent film with no downside that I have discovered :)
 
Ed's Red for most cleaning chores. Bore-Tech Eliminator for copper removal.

Lube with Breakfree LP (no C) or white lithium grease.
 
I don't even use oil on my rifle. I do use hoppes nitro solvent and birchwood casey gun scrubber though.
 
On my pistol I use those to but I oil just the barrel with whatever gun oil I can get for cheap. I just oil the inside of the barrel after I clean it. But I only took my pistol out once to the range to break it in. It is just a gun for protection. I carry it about wherever I go. For target shooting I like using a rifle.
 
Bore:
Bore Tech Carbon Remover, Bore Tech Eliminator, Kroil.
Oil:
Rem Oil, Break Free CLP, Mobil 1 10w-30.
 
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