Anyone ever cleaned their guns with coffee?

[SniperStraz]

I heard someone talking about it the other day and I was wondering if it actually works. They said boiling hot coffee straight through the pipe would clean it out if you needed to in the field. Any thoughts?

 

[El Tejon]

My maternal grandfather cleaned his guns this way. He said it worked very well on blackpowder weapons.

 

[SniperStraz]

Thanx for your input El Tejon

 

[obxned]

Black powder fouling is easily cleaned with any water-based substance.

Don't think this is a good idea for non-BP guns. The cat once tried to clean my notebook computer with coffee, and it wasn't a good thing at all

 

[Jacka L Ope]

Have used just plain old soap & water on black powder guns. Never heard of coffee being used before.

 

[thexrayboy]

I believe it's the "boiling hot" part of the equation that does most of the work
when cleaning black powder weapons. Not so sure if the coffee would make that much difference.

 

[RavenVT100]

Yes, but then again I drink coffee whenever I do just about anything.

As far as actually using the coffee to clean guns, that seems pretty silly.

 

[zoom6zoom]

Makes the coffee taste like crap, though.

 

[SniperStraz]

Makes the coffee taste like crap, though.

Great answer!

 

[MilsurpShooter]

Some of the stains I've seen left on mugs and peoples teeth... I personally wouldn't use it on my gun if I didn't have too. But in a pinch I guess it could be.

 

[Old Fuff]

During the black powder era, and then when corrosive primers were used, boiling hot water was often used to clean out a bore and remove either the powder fouling or the primer's salt residue. Sometimes the only source of boiling water was coffee - especially with military forces in the field. If nothing better was available coffee would do. But it was the hot water, not the coffee that made the difference.

 

[logical]

The stuff they serve here in my office would probably strip the chrome out of a lined barrel.

 

[DoubleTapDrew]

Does decaf work better or the real stuff?

I've heard of boiling water, but not coffee. With as clumsy as I am sometimes I'm sure I'll try this trick eventually whether I want to or not.

 

[Hokkmike]

I like to sip coffee while cleaning my guns.

(sorry, I couldn't resist)

But to answer your question - NO!

 

[slick6]

My guns wouldn't shoot straight-if I'd let them get drunk on caffeine!

 

[bobbytm]

I like coffee!But not to clean my guns!!rsss

 

[Axman]

Don't clean guns with coffee!!!

The darned guns are always going around causing trouble by themselves, just ask any gun-grabber! The last thing we need is a rogue gun on caffeine, it'll get the trigger jitters and could start shooting at anything!

 

[Lupinus]

I dunno bout coffee but the cat decided to be helpful one day and attempted to clean my gun with lemonade. I don't think it worked out as well as kitty had hoped.

 

[Amish_Bill]

I used leftover beer to fill the radiator of my truck one winter, but never coffee to clean a gun.

The things some people's kids think of...

 

[MrPeter]

I used leftover beer to fill the radiator of my truck one winter, but never coffee to clean a gun.

Wouldn't that foam up something awful?

Or maybe that's what I've been doing wrong to my Buick. Maybe it wants beer 'stead of water!

But I could never let my car drive drunk.

(Sorry, couldn't resist)

 

[Geno]

It should be illegal to clean guns with Heaven's nectar! Anyone who wants to waste their coffee in such a way, please just package the coffee and send it my way.

Me when I wake up

Me as I struggle to pour the coffee into my cup

Me as I pontificate, "is there life before coffee?!"

Me after my 20th coffee of the day.

 

[ArfinGreebly]

Office Coffee

Our office coffee (at least downstairs) has that "used to clean guns" taste, but we filter it to remove the particulates.

We have a coffee shop near here that has a "Mocha Hoppes Latte" but it's pretty spendy.

 

[Amish_Bill]

This sounds like an appropriate place to share these little items I've collected.

Caffeine Litany
by Crawdad on Sep 11, 2000 @ 06:00 PST


It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed,
the hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes a warning.
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.

Caffeine Prayer
by Great_Skeeve on Sep 11, 2000 @ 06:35 PST


Let us give thanks to Java and His one true prophet, Saint Juan Valdez.
For He hath given us the bean, and the bean was good.
For He hath shown us The Way to grind the bean and brew it unto His image.
For He hath given us an ambrosia without which we would be forced to unleash the gods Smith & Wesson on our co-workers who, being not in His Grace, seem bound and determined to drive us into madness.
Give thanks unto Java that He, in his infinite Alertness and Perkiness, might raise you above your despair and sorrows.
Give thanks unto Saint Juan who hath helped us to understand His teachings.
Finally, let us give thanks to the many disciples of Almighty Java, those who hath given us the means to become one with Him through their wondrous devices - the coffee machines.

 

[12GA00buck]

Great, now we can expect starbucks to start marketing a special tactical coffee blend aimed at gun owners

Reminds me of a time I was out shooting with my dad, got to the bottom of my coffee mug only to discover I had been ejecting shell cases right into it.

 

[Pax Jordana]

As others have said - it's the hot water. Coca-cola gets bloodstains out of tile floors, that's the only cool one I know about.


Coffee's already tactical - it comes in black and 'coyote'

Now all I need is a MOLLE mug holster.