Getting rid of cigarette smell on multiple guns.

Bottle of hoppes 9! maybe leaving them in soaked rags of gun cleaner over a couple days.....

Ballistol? Or like folks say, it's a glock. Soak it in mud, hose it off and shoot it.

I'll 2nd ballistol, although you might prefer the cig smell

Dryer sheets

If you could put them inside of some sort of container, a cardboard box would be great and put a few dryer sheets in they might soak up some of the smell. It will probably mean changing them every couple of days until it is gone.

It may not work but it doesn't cost much.

charcoal briquetes

I would try laying them in a large plastic container and covering them top and bottom with charcoal briquets.

You could just keep it simple and let them lay in the sun for an afternoon- like on your roof (just write a note so you don't forget there's guns on your roof). Go to chemical warfare if that doesn't work.

I HATE cigarette smell, too. But until you've cleaned the guns with Hoppe's number 9 - which you should do anyway - there's no point in soaking them in it (even if that was intended as hyperbole. ) I would think the only part of the gun to retain the smell after they're cleaned would be the wood stocks...in that case...baking soda, like in the refrigerator maybe (?) Not ON the wood, of course, but nearby. Hoppe's won't hurt polymer, of course, and be sure to throw away all the rugs, cases or rags they may have been wrapped in, as that may be part of what you're smelling. Good luck.

Vinegar 10%.

Of course need to rub off thoroughly and oil afterwards.

Vinegar is very good for getting rid of smells.

I am into radio.

I have purchased used radio gear that smelled like smoke and I did the dryer sheets thing already mentioned and it worked pretty well.

Shoot them! Then clean, then shoot them some more.

Hoppe's three or four times first should really cut into the smell. Actually the ammonia in Hoppe's will help. I would also hit the plastic with Simple Green, scrub, rinse, dry well and shoot. The wood, start with Murphy's Oil Soap.

Dry and oil well between shooting. Setting outside while you have an eye on them is a good idea. Don't store in your safe until at least treated a couple times, unless bagged with dryer cloths.

Most of the smell is in the stocks. Remove the B/A and wipe the would down with a cotton cloth dampened with mineral spirits to get any surface contamination off. This generally won't hurt any finish. Then hang them to air out. It takes awhile but the smell diminishes to where it doesn't bother you. I or my family never smoked so I hate the smell. But after airing them they don't bother me. On wood you could also seal bare wood where the inletting is with some laquer. I'm sure that area soaked up the smell more than the finished surface. Or simply rub some Vicks under your nose when shooting them. Good Luck.

Two items that are generally used to get cigarette smoke smell out of objects are baking soda and ground coffee. Both will absorb the smell from the object.

You could try field stripping the Glock and putting it in a 1-gallon plastic bag and then covering it with baking soda or ground coffee, sealing the bag and leaving it overnight.

For the rifle stocks, remove them from the gun, put them in a box and cover the surfaces with baking soda or coffee.

You may have to treat them more than once to get all of the smell completely out of the guns.

Best solution I've found is ionizing.

We get pieces like this from time to time at the shop.

Place the guns upright in a closet, put an ionizer in there with the cord under the door, and let it do it's thing for a couplea days.

I'd strongly advise against vinegar. It's known to be bad for most bluing finishes, and citric acid crystallized in stock material is only a small rain event away from a ruined finish.

Remove the stocks and clean the bejeebers out of everything. The metal parts will be the easy part.

Wash the finished parts of the stocks down with a grease cutting dishwasher soap/water mixture. This will clean any surface contamination off, including tobacco tars. Repeat a couple times, if necessary.

A really, REALLY serious cleaner/stripper would be to rub down the stocks with MEK. You can pull a lot of stuff out of wood with this, including the finish. So be prepared to refinish the stocks when this is all over.

Store the cleaned and preserved metal gun parts in your gun safe, or wherever you normally keep your guns.

Expose your wood stocks to the sun and fresh air. And by "expose", I mean essentially keep them stored where sunlight and fresh air can get to them for several weeks. Time will eventually leach out most of the odors this way. The advent of the start of warmer weather right now makes this an ideal time.

Since many people often go months, or years, without shooting certain guns, you should have no problem with keeping the wood stocks stored in open, sunlit air for as long as it takes.

Refinish the stocks afterwards, if required.

Oh...and feel free to shoot them and clean them any time you wish during this time. Just don't store them with your other firearms until the smell fades away.

DO NOT USE VINEGAR it will destroy the bluing.

I'd get a bag of charcoal brickets and a big tupperware container (since you can use the charcoal afterwards) or a lot of baking soda.

I bought a car that had cigarette smoke imbedded in it, and put a big bowl of baking soda in it for a few days... and it leached the smell out.

I bought a couple of room deodorizers from Home Depot. Had a room in the apartment that I rented that smelled badly of cigarette smoke,they worked like a silica gel pack and absorbed the smell over a few day. The only problem is do you like your firearms to smell like citrus or spring morning.

I would certainly think that Hoppes solvent would get rid of cigarette smell. That would work on the metal. As for the wood, try wood oil. Here's some stock cleaning instructions here:

http://thecmp.org/training-tech/armorers-corner/wood-cleaning-article/

I've bought several guns under the same conditions. Break them down, hose the metal with gun scrubber until clean and re-oil, clean the wood with mild detergent and lemon oil, leave them sit in the sun for a day or two and wipe them down with lemon oil again. I had two that were so bad they dripped brownish-yellow tar like material from them when cleaned. It took a while for the wood to release the odor on those.

Time and patience works wonders. I inherited a box of paperwork after my dad passed away that positively reeked. A year later and there is not much left. I would think firearms which had passed through a couple of cleaning cycles would fare even better. I'm hoping it's not going to be a big problem.

As someone mentioned above coffee. Unless you don't like the smell of coffee, I do.