What do you use to clean your firearms?

[VN Vet]

I've tried many products over the years. I have settled down to a couple cleaners: Ballistol and Super QCG. I find that if I use Frog Lube first that cleaning becomes a very easy task. Ballistol has been around since WWI or before. The Germans used it to clean their firearms and their bowels. To do their best fighting, the troops needed to stay regular and Ballistol did the trick (and still does). Super QCG is one of the new wonder products which works great.

If you use Hoppes and like your Hoppes, then you can keep your Hoppes period.

 

[phil1640]

I have use Hoppes for years may have to try Ballistol and Frog lube.

 

[Indy_Guy_77]

I use Breakfree CLP for the most part.

Hoppe's #9 isn't that far away.

RIG Gun grease, Rem Oil, and/or BF CLP for lubrication.

 

[1775usmarine]

Mil surplus CLP, Hoppes #9, Rem gun oil, tons of wooden q tips, 4x4 gauze (for patches), bore snake, and an old m16 cleaning kit I had packed away when I got out.

 

[netsecurity]

I'm kind of a cleaning fanatic. I consider Break Free CLP the standard, but I've recently replaced it with Weaponshield CLP. On my AR-15's I use Slip2000, and love that stuff!

I do not like Eezox. I apply it only to old firearms that need rust prevention more than anything else. That stuff stinks so bad that the smell never quite goes away, even after you stop using it.

I use Remington Dry Lube on firing pin channels and reloading dies, etc. (anything that cannot be wet).

 

[dmarsh8]

I've tried many products over the years. I have settled down to a couple cleaners: Ballistol and Super QCG. I find that if I use Frog Lube first that cleaning becomes a very easy task. Ballistol has been around since WWI or before. The Germans used it to clean their firearms and their bowels. To do their best fighting, the troops needed to stay regular and Ballistol did the trick (and still does). Super QCG is one of the new wonder products which works great.

If you use Hoppes and like your Hoppes, then you can keep your Hoppes period.

so wouldn't that make it bowel-istol

Hoppes #9 here cleaner and oil

 

[Valvestate]

Cant put on here what one guy told me what the Russians did to clean their firearms out in the field when they ran out of cleaning solutions when I got my tokarev

Sounds like you got a lil more of Russian than you bargained for.

 

[bluewraith]

Hoppes #9 and Kroil, mixed 50/50 for the general stuff. Straight Kroil for leaded barrels, straight hoppes for heavy fouling. For lube I use some fancy grade Hoppes gun oil. I don't remember the name, but its was in a black bottle before I transfered it to a needler tip bottle.

When/if I need grease, I have a tube of Tetra. A little goes a long way.

Brushes and jags are all Pro-Shot because they are made in the US.

Other then that, I have a few bore snakes and I make my own patches out of old cotton shirts. Spent 2 days cutting up old undershirts.. I don't think I'll ever have to buy patches again.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I've tried many products over the years. I have settled down to a couple cleaners: Ballistol and Super QCG. I find that if I use Frog Lube first that cleaning becomes a very easy task. Ballistol has been around since WWI or before. The Germans used it to clean their firearms and their bowels. To do their best fighting, the troops needed to stay regular and Ballistol did the trick (and still does). Super QCG is one of the new wonder products which works great.

If you use Hoppes and like your Hoppes, then you can keep your Hoppes period.

I see what you did there...


I use Hoppes on the bores, followed by CLP, then a light coat of QCG on the outside. For semi-autos I also use a little gun grease on the moving parts.

 

[CQB]

I have recently been trying Frog Lube on a Glock and an AR. Haven't found a reason to dislike it yet. Brake clean and the ultrasonic are my favorite cleaners.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I have recently been trying Frog Lube on a Glock and an AR. Haven't found a reason to dislike it yet. Brake clean and the ultrasonic are my favorite cleaners.

Have you ever stored a firearm for a long period of time that was cleaned/lubed with Frog Lube? The reason I ask is, I used it on a 9mm semi-auto that I rarely shoot, and when I took it out of the safe the other day and worked the action, it seemed "gummy". I've never run into that with CLP.

 

[INDPrepper]

Interested stuff in this thread, especially the Russian and German things...

 

[boogieman]

I generally use hoppes to clean and eezox to lube. Never had a problem with any of it.

 

[derrickgoins]

Ballistol and weapon shield.

 

[darinb]

basic brushes,boresnake,CLP,Hoppes#9 and miltec1

 

[scootn103]

Bore guides. Pro-shot for just about everything . Bore snakes , hoppes #9 .patience

 

[FishnHunt]

CLP, Powder Blast on any really nasty stuff (as long as it's not plastic), and Otis cleaning system.

 

[johntheplinker]

Cant put on here what one guy told me what the Russians did to clean their firearms out in the field when they ran out of cleaning solutions when I got my tokarev

Actually fairly common back in the olden days, you use what you got. And as long as you're not too dehydrated, you got that.

 

[modeltman1]

Actually fairly common back in the olden days, you use what you got. And as long as you're not too dehydrated, you got that.

True-I know someone told me to use windex on my sks's when shooting highly corrosive ammo when at the range then when you get home to break it down and do a complete clean out. Have done this for several years and they have not pitted yet. So windex and human cleaning would have about the same ingredients for cleaning!

 

[VN Vet]

I am liking Super QCG more and more each time I use it. It's quick, easy and pricey. A little does go a long way. BGF carrys this product.