Shotgun Cleaning

[DanBettin]

Which kit do you usually use for cleaning your gun? Which oil etc.? And when the pull-through mops have had their day do people buy them separate to the rods again? Seems a waste to keep buying rods every time I need a new kit.

Edited February 26, 2018 by DanBettin

[Newbie to this]

I mainly use the Bisley and Parker Hale stuff, and just replace the bits as and when needed, no need to buy a whole kit again

[bruno22rf]

I don't think I have ever needed to replace a single item in my cleaning kit - bin shooting 30 odd years and have 10+ Shotguns including one Black Powder.

[DanBettin]

 

20 minutes ago, bruno22rf said:

I don't think I have ever needed to replace a single item in my cleaning kit - bin shooting 30 odd years and have 10+ Shotguns including one Black Powder.

What do you do with the brushes etc. when they're black?

[Newbie to this]

48 minutes ago, DanBettin said:

 

What do you do with the brushes etc. when they're black?

Clean them

[DanBettin]

 

1 minute ago, Newbie to this said:

Clean them

How? Someone told me once on a lesson that once they've been used a few times they need to be binned.

[Dave at kelton]

I never bin them they always have some use. Payne Galway type brushes are the best in my view. I have a selection accumulated over the years and from 100 year old plus cases. Just buy a new brush if you think you need it.

I use a mix of spray oils and basic 3in1 types. If it' oily and you scrub the barrels it works.

Blackpowder is different. I mop out with a mix of 50% neat windscreen washer fluid and water before drying and oiling. This mix removes all BP residue.

[JohnfromUK]

There was a good thread here

 

[Newbie to this]

1 hour ago, DanBettin said:

 

How? Someone told me once on a lesson that once they've been used a few times they need to be binned.

I clean my brushes with solvent, the same stuff I use for the barrels.

[Scully]

I use whatever a gun shop has when I need it. I can’t recall the last time I bought a bronze brush or mop. Have started using Gorilla wipes also, as pull throughs, and I have bore snakes for a quick do. 

I am a big fan of Hoppes gun grease for my chokes, but I think that’s mostly because I love the smell. One tube lasts decades! 

[Blackpowder]

3 hours ago, DanBettin said:

 

How? Someone told me once on a lesson that once they've been used a few times they need to be binned.

This works for all cleaning tools.  Put them in a screw top jar of meths and shake up and down, in severe cases you might need to change spirits and repeat.

 

Blackpowder

[ClemFandango]

I bought a single piece tetra gun rod for my shotguns. Expensive but good quality. I have a PB wire brush, Jag for patches/blue roll and wool mop. 

I use Hoppes 009 as a solvent for cleaning and then a thick gun oil after. If it's been particularly wet I'll use WD40. Some people say that WD40 harms blueing but that's ********. I have been shooting for more than 20years and my shotguns are as good as new. 

10 minutes ago, Blackpowder said:

This works for all cleaning tools.  Put them in a screw top jar of meths and shake up and down, in severe cases you might need to change spirits and repeat.

 

Blackpowder

I do this. 

although I do renew my PB brushes when they lose their stiffness. 

[Buck100]

On 26/2/2018 at 17:27, JohnfromUK said:

There was a good thread here

Same with Hoppes #9, lost it's strength and nice sharp smell.

 

[johnnytheboy]

On 26/02/2018 at 19:04, Scully said:

I use whatever a gun shop has when I need it. I can’t recall the last time I bought a bronze brush or mop. Have started using Gorilla wipes also, as pull throughs, and I have bore snakes for a quick do. 

I am a big fan of Hoppes gun grease for my chokes, but I think that’s mostly because I love the smell. One tube lasts decades! 

Do the gorilla wipes affect the blueing at all? 

[Scully]

22 minutes ago, johnnytheboy said:

Do the gorilla wipes affect the blueing at all? 

I only use them as pull throughs so have no idea if they affect the blueing. 

[johnnytheboy]

30 minutes ago, Scully said:

I only use them as pull throughs so have no idea if they affect the blueing. 

If there is any residue on your hands from touching the wipe then touching the blueing does it affect it? 

This is obviously a great idea I just don’t want to kill a gun! 

[Scully]

1 hour ago, johnnytheboy said:

If there is any residue on your hands from touching the wipe then touching the blueing does it affect it? 

 

Not that I'm aware of. The bluing will wear off eventually whatever you use; it isn't anything I worry about. 

Edited April 18, 2018 by Scully

[vampire]

Gun oil or meths and wonder wipes.

[Uilleachan]

Bore snake, a squirt of oil and a couple of tugs through after every use. 

[oldypigeonpopper]

On 2/26/2018 at 15:49, DanBettin said:

 

What do you do with the brushes etc. when they're black?

wash in white spirit and dry off

[oldypigeonpopper]

hello, wood rods with brass screw and a bronze brush plus youngs 303 for nigh on 50 years, a good scrub/ then tissue paper until clean, then a spray of light gun oil and wooly mop through leaving a film of oil in barrel/barrels 

On 2/26/2018 at 17:27, JohnfromUK said:

There was a good thread here

 

hello, thats interesting i may see if there is a anything similar, 

[Muddy Funker]

Same as above pretty much.

I use the original bisley kit I bought with gun 12 years ago.

I don't bother with specific patches, just kitchen towel wrapped around plastic jag so it fits tight, it removes everything.

I have a boresnake too for a quickie, it works very well.

[Harnser]

If you start off with a clean barrel and pull a bore snake through after every use it will stay clean . Some people go over board cleaning their guns . It’s not necessary unless they get wet . It’s then a strip down clean .

harnser

[Farmboy91]

30 minutes ago, Harnser said:

If you start off with a clean barrel and pull a bore snake through after every use it will stay clean . Some people go over board cleaning their guns . It’s not necessary unless they get wet . It’s then a strip down clean .

harnser

+1

By far the quickest and easiest way. 

[rwade545]

I find with fibre wads I do the following

1/ spray with gun oil

2/ push chunk of kitchen roll through with rod to remove most of dirt

3/ spray of gun oil

4/ bore snake and wipe down outside with oily rag and done. This way bore snake does not get as dirty.

 

if I’ve been shooting plastic wads I needs to give a scrub with brush to before step 1.