What do you use to clean your firearms?

[BiscuitNaBasket]

CLP BREAK FREE

This with Hoppes lube and cleaner.

 

[tenring]

Kroil

 

[M67]

G96, Carbon Killer, Slip2000 EWL, Gunzilla (sometimes). Those 4 things will clean about everything. Never been a fan of Hoppes cleaning products, blasphemous in the gun world, I know

 

[CQB]

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.

the two I've been using it on haven't sat in the safe much yet. I'll keep on eye on them. Now that winter is coming, they'll be in the safe more.

 

[USMC-Johnson]

Slip 2000 products are the only ones i let touch my stuff. It works and it isnt break the bank expensive....did i mention it just plain works?

 

[metaldog]

I ocaisionally use Hoppe's Semi-Auto bore cleaner. I mostly use Clenzoil. Clenzoil Field & Range Product - Clenzoil Worldwide, LLC

 

[cswan]

Froglube. Very happy with it.

 

[tk71]

hoppes 9 and follow up with oil for normal cleaning. I occasionally use clp. I use window cleaner with ammonia on mosin after shooting corrosive ammo then follow up with normal clean later.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

the two I've been using it on haven't sat in the safe much yet. I'll keep on eye on them. Now that winter is coming, they'll be in the safe more.

I stripped mine down yesterday and cleaned and lubed with QCG and CLP and now it's working as it should. I know that Frog Lube relies at least in part on heat to make it effective, so I wonder if that is a factor. The cabinet where this gun is stored is in a rather cool room in our house (low 60's for a temp).

 

[Indy_Guy_77]

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!

No need at all to use Windex. This is an Internet-age-old MYTH.

The active ingredient against corrosive salts contained within Windex is nothing but WATER.

WATER WATER WATER. Water will dissolve the corrosive salts and flush them out.

Windex is, depending on the product, 93-95% WATER.

WATER WATER WATER.

But, if you want to pay that much for the WATER - be my guest. But you're wasting your money.

"But - use the Windex that has the ammonia in it!" Wrong again! The salts formed from corrosive primer detonation are, by far an large, Potassium Chloride - or KCl. KCl is, for the most part, NOT soluble in ammonia.

But KCl dissolves readily in water.

WATER WATER WATER.

You then must get rid of the water by whatever means you choose....

WATER WATER WATER!

 

[clelaj]

Ed's Red

 

[pig957]

I use a Maytag set to the gentle cycle.

 

[88E30M50]

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.

This is the reason I stopped using Froglube. It was bad enough that my CZ 75B started to fail. I cleaned throughly and used my normal gun oil and all is fine again. I don't think Froglube works that well in pistols with a lot of slide rail area. At least, it does not on mine.

 

[88E30M50]

Ed's Red

This is my basic lube for all firearms. I'll use a touch of slide glide on 1911 rails, but Ed's Red is my go to lube.

 

[superjoe76]

Hot soapy water and a scrub brush. Rinse thoroughly, air blast, and dry with a towel. After that, I then give a gentle lube with rem oil.

 

[VN Vet]

What cycles do you use with your liquid cleaners? I've never got this right ever since my wife left me.

 

[danielson]

On my rifles and revolvers, I use my own take on eds red, works great, smells better.

Glocks get dry scrubbed, wiped down with alcohol, and I use a touch of dow33 to lube.

 

[bmbutch]

Dewey carbon fiber rods.
Breakfree CLP for initial clean.
Weaponshield for final clean & lube.

 

[slackerisme]

i use the tear of anti-gunner soaked panties of anti-hunters.

 

[UncleMike]

Break Free CLP to clean the guns.
Hoppes #9 to put me in the mood to clean guns. (I've been addicted to the smell of that stuff for fifty five years.)