An open bottle of Hoppe's No. 9 is like perfume, to me. And there's something especially mesmerizing about some of these old military surplus pistols: the aroma of old gun oil and solvent, the powder-blasted barrels...mmmmmm!
Update Friend and commenter JeffS has a little help when he cleans his guns...and when I say little help, I mean little help.
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Yesterday I told my buddy a whole lot of guns were gonna be cleaned if they shut down the state.
They just shut down AZ starting tomorrow at 5.
I'm gonna have some clean guns.
So do I, but while Hoppe's No. 9 smells like a beautiful lady (who wears perfume), I prefer Break Free CLP. But I still have Hoppe's on hand, because you just never know.
Or for that extra hard carbon on your bolt? Frog Lube, man. Frog Lube.
I'm a Ballistol guy myself but yeah, it's good to spend time with the toys.
Now that I think about it, back in the Guard, we had a really slick way of cleaning the rifles in large batches and very quickly.
You put the dissassembled weapons into a trough (the motor pool had 'em for cleaning vehicle parts, steel barrels cut in half vertically, and welded onto a frame). Then you dumped in a whole bunch of liquid freon. Cleaned off the carbon toot sweet as the freon bubbled away.
You still had to wipe them down and oil the parts. But it worked great.
Until the freon went away ........
I use both Hoppes and break free.
Break free cuz it works so well, Hoppe's because I love the smell.
That's a great pic. Made me smile.
Yeah, lack of freon sucks. Eh, at least we SAVED THE OZONE HOLE!!!!!
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