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It is no secret I subscribe to Schumann’s take on cleaning barrels. Meaning I don’t.
I do take care of chambers, extraction, magazines, speed-loaders…Bores get something if wet, snow, mud or some-such finds it way there…
Now “somewhere” I do have a Otis Tactical Kit and a Kleenbore 3 pc GI style rod – “somewhere”.
Weekly inspect and clean of CCWs simple to do with pipe cleaners, Q-tips and such. I “had” rawhide in a short and long length, with a slit to hold a patch in a old shoe polish tin, like I have used since I was a little brat. Mentors & Elders did this, and they made me one (okay more than one, this is what one loses as a kid...and gives away to another person...how raised, what we did...) and just I still like and use this method.
For shotguns, I “had” a couple of wooden dowels with slits for using in a drill, and I “had” a couple of aluminum rods and such…including ones cut to make chamber brushes.
Already shared how I bounced a Pro-Shot one piece rod of cement 3 flights down…they bounce nice, just not worth a flip unless you have a crooked barrel. Cutting it up to make chamber brushes and such works tho’…
Hey is it easier to hand a gunsmith buddy a gun, let him deal with it, while I go out back and dirty up/ test/ check out something he has for a customer, is building. I mean someone has to do this - right?
Students get to know how a gun works by cleaning it, so being a nice guy I let them clean mine to practice on….
So I get this real nice gift. Total surprise because of something I did awhile back.
FoxRiver makes a really neat pull thru system like a boresnake. I have used one in 20 ga, and for 45ACP. Otis for me offers more versatility, still I really like the FoxRiver over the Hoppe’s boresnake.
Also received was a brand new Outers cleaning kit in nice box, steel rods, and new product line.
I had this new stuff about 45 minute’s tops.
All I did was run down the road and come back, and find Grandkids coming to visit for the weekend. Seems grandkids have a Birthday.
Two girls; born on the same day, one year apart.
Did I mention they are shooters and both cute as a buttons?
Grandparents have given them guns – again.
Granddaughters “had” aluminum rods for shotguns, seems the boresnakes got lost on an out of town trip.
Did I mention I was a sucker for brunettes with brown eyes?
“Thanks Uncle Steve!” <hugs>
I go to pour coffee, Grandma comes in…” that was supposed to be your gift, we didn’t know the young’uns had a need for..…parents are giving them ammo and cases...".
“No, these gals I changed their diapers, was there when they recited 4 rules…things work out for a reason, so I was supposed to be here to pass forward…”
Uncle Steve can still make chamber brushes out of “old” aluminum rods while Grandpa does the Grandpa part about the new guns. Grandma drives everyone nuts with great smells coming from the kitchen.
Not the first time I have done a weekly inspection and maintain using a stick from a Popeye’s corn on the cob …
Left with a good feeling….grinning…Seems my shoe polish tin with rawhide was confiscated by the younger one…
Grandma scurrying to find a empty shoe polish tin, Grandpa having to clean it out, Grandma hunting for rawhide boot laces “somewhere in all this junk” , and two girls having the best time watching me grinning, egging them on…
“Hey, these gals have to have the same stuff, you old folks get with it and get this made up will ya?”
Grandma still tosses a mean dishtowel.
Sometimes it is good to be the Adopted Uncle, being one does not require owning a cleaning kit.
“Don’t forget a glass vial to put oil in….
…them itty bitty Tobasco Bottles work well…”
I left as the B- day gals were dumping Tobasco into another container from the itty bitty bottles- the dog was told to bite my leg ( he thinks I hung the moon) and walked me out to the truck to get his peppermint…
I sent him back in with a bandana around his neck…
I should have stolen more home baked chocolate chip cookies...
Steve
I do take care of chambers, extraction, magazines, speed-loaders…Bores get something if wet, snow, mud or some-such finds it way there…
Now “somewhere” I do have a Otis Tactical Kit and a Kleenbore 3 pc GI style rod – “somewhere”.
Weekly inspect and clean of CCWs simple to do with pipe cleaners, Q-tips and such. I “had” rawhide in a short and long length, with a slit to hold a patch in a old shoe polish tin, like I have used since I was a little brat. Mentors & Elders did this, and they made me one (okay more than one, this is what one loses as a kid...and gives away to another person...how raised, what we did...) and just I still like and use this method.
For shotguns, I “had” a couple of wooden dowels with slits for using in a drill, and I “had” a couple of aluminum rods and such…including ones cut to make chamber brushes.
Already shared how I bounced a Pro-Shot one piece rod of cement 3 flights down…they bounce nice, just not worth a flip unless you have a crooked barrel. Cutting it up to make chamber brushes and such works tho’…
Hey is it easier to hand a gunsmith buddy a gun, let him deal with it, while I go out back and dirty up/ test/ check out something he has for a customer, is building. I mean someone has to do this - right?
Students get to know how a gun works by cleaning it, so being a nice guy I let them clean mine to practice on….
So I get this real nice gift. Total surprise because of something I did awhile back.
FoxRiver makes a really neat pull thru system like a boresnake. I have used one in 20 ga, and for 45ACP. Otis for me offers more versatility, still I really like the FoxRiver over the Hoppe’s boresnake.
Also received was a brand new Outers cleaning kit in nice box, steel rods, and new product line.
I had this new stuff about 45 minute’s tops.
All I did was run down the road and come back, and find Grandkids coming to visit for the weekend. Seems grandkids have a Birthday.
Two girls; born on the same day, one year apart.
Did I mention they are shooters and both cute as a buttons?
Grandparents have given them guns – again.
Granddaughters “had” aluminum rods for shotguns, seems the boresnakes got lost on an out of town trip.
Did I mention I was a sucker for brunettes with brown eyes?
“Thanks Uncle Steve!” <hugs>
I go to pour coffee, Grandma comes in…” that was supposed to be your gift, we didn’t know the young’uns had a need for..…parents are giving them ammo and cases...".
“No, these gals I changed their diapers, was there when they recited 4 rules…things work out for a reason, so I was supposed to be here to pass forward…”
Uncle Steve can still make chamber brushes out of “old” aluminum rods while Grandpa does the Grandpa part about the new guns. Grandma drives everyone nuts with great smells coming from the kitchen.
Not the first time I have done a weekly inspection and maintain using a stick from a Popeye’s corn on the cob …
Left with a good feeling….grinning…Seems my shoe polish tin with rawhide was confiscated by the younger one…
Grandma scurrying to find a empty shoe polish tin, Grandpa having to clean it out, Grandma hunting for rawhide boot laces “somewhere in all this junk” , and two girls having the best time watching me grinning, egging them on…
“Hey, these gals have to have the same stuff, you old folks get with it and get this made up will ya?”
Grandma still tosses a mean dishtowel.
Sometimes it is good to be the Adopted Uncle, being one does not require owning a cleaning kit.
“Don’t forget a glass vial to put oil in….
…them itty bitty Tobasco Bottles work well…”
I left as the B- day gals were dumping Tobasco into another container from the itty bitty bottles- the dog was told to bite my leg ( he thinks I hung the moon) and walked me out to the truck to get his peppermint…
I sent him back in with a bandana around his neck…
I should have stolen more home baked chocolate chip cookies...
Steve