What Do You Use To Clean Your Firearms?

[BHC]

I was brought up on this from my father, and I still use it...The smell just reminds me of his gun shop when I was very young

[FishNHard]

M-PRO7

[mightyhunter]

Hoppe's #9

[Bojaffa]

Hoppe’s #9..Love that smell.   After watching Hickok45 on YouTube quite abit lately I’m wanting to try Ballistol. 

[Greg]

CLP

[230jhp]

It depends on the firearm. 

On my center-fire rifles I start with Birchwood-Casey bore scrubber. However, I have about a half dozen different solvents. I normally clean multiple times with a variety of solvents. Getting the copper fouling out is a process. Once I leave it soak then get a patch through that is not green then I know I got the copper out of the rifling.

On my inlines I use some muzzleloader aquius stuff I forget the name.. I fire the White-Hot pellets in the Triumph. It cleans up pretty easy.  In the Black Diamond I use 777. It doesn't clean up as easy as the WH, but the gun shoots more accurately with the 777.

On the flintlock and the caplock I use the tried and true bucket of hot soapy water pumped through the barrel to clean out black powder residue.

On the savage 220 I use the Bore-scrubber. I have an attachment that allows me to use a 2o gage brush on the rotating cleaning rod I would normally use for rifles.

For my conventional shotguns it's Bore-scrubber 

Both my pistols have stainless barrels.. Bore scrubber again.

With all my guns once they are clean I clean and protect with CLP. Except the muzzloaders, there I use Bore-Butter.

Edited May 23, 2020 by 230jhp

[230jhp]

I also have an ultrasonic cleaning bath. I use it for inline muzzloaders breach plugs and the disassembled bolt and other small AR-15 parts.

Once I was having trouble with my Marlin.22 not ejecting shells. I put the bolt in the ultrasonic fully assembled. After flushing it out with WD-40 it worked fine again.

[vdep217]

Lately been using lucas gun oil.   Very little goes a long way.  If I know the particular gun will be subject to extreme cold I will use solvent to clean oil very lightly dry and then use graphite on moving parts

[nmc02]

Thank me later...

https://www.boretech.com/products/eliminator-bore-cleaner

[Lunatic]

Nothing better than this

[mattg1500]

Clp and wd40 and hoppes. My custom barrels only get a wet patch once through barrel.

[Codaboy]

Clp and Birchwood casey

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[archer36]

17 hours ago, Lunatic said:

Nothing better than this

I bought a big bottle of Gunzilla about 10 years ago at the NJ Sportsman Show. If I had only one thing to clean and lubricate a gun, this is it!

[archer36]

It depends. If I use rounds with plastic collars, I use a plastic cleaner first. If I use copper plated shot, I'll use a copper cleaner. After that a general "gun scrubber" will finish it up. I always leave a slight metal lube, preferably synthetic, as little as possible, almost dry. 

[Mink]

22 hours ago, mightyhunter said:

Hoppe's #9

We even put a drop on our catfish bait!