What gun cleaner do you use?

[Paradude]

What's the best gun cleaner to use?I use Hoppes but I would like to try some other recommended cleaners.

 

[DirtyD]

CLP does it all....

 

[accordingtoome]

Blue Wonder does wonders.

 

[Vellcrow]

Break Free CLP

 

[kville79]

I use either Break Free CLP or Hoppes. Pretty standard. I'll pick up other varieties of extra strength bore cleaners now and then for some heavy duty stuff considering I don't have a dry solvent tank available.

 

[Texas1911]

Not a solvent, but synthetic motor oil contains plenty of detergents. I've noticed that guns clean up alot easier with motor oil versus Hoppes or FP10.

 

[Lumberjack98]

I clean with Brek Free CLP and then Hoppes in the places where it is really gunked up.

I do find that using CLP on all of the areas prone to buildup makes it MUCH easier to clean after the next time I go shooting. Much more so than the standare gun oil I used prior to CLP.

Blue Wonder is fantastic for getting really dirty bbls clean and also removes surface rust without the need for abrasives.

 

[Posit]

Like most, I've tried many. Right now, I use Butch's Bore Shine for for powder residue, and Montana Extreme Copper Killer for copper. The Montana is the absolute best I've used for copper; usually don't need a brush, just patches until it comes clean. When I do use a brush, its nylon.

Bought a used rifle a couple of months ago; nastiest bore I've seen. I resorted to JB's bore paste to get most of the fouling out, then finished with the combination above.

 

[WhiteLightning]

Break Free CLP

+1

 

[sheepdog]

Can't believe nobody's mentioned MPro-7 yet. Good cleaner, no odor, no problems with skin contact. I guess Hoppe's Elite is the same thing, but I don't know for sure.

 

[lonewolf23c]

I use Hoppes on personal weapons, but I have to use Break Free or CLP on military weapons. I like Break free better though.

 

[iratollah]

I've been using Gunzilla lately. Doesn't smell up the room as badly as Hoppes.

 

[phatcyclist]

Can't believe nobody's mentioned MPro-7 yet. Good cleaner, no odor, no problems with skin contact. I guess Hoppe's Elite is the same thing, but I don't know for sure.

I use these because I have skin allergies.

 

[Texas Patriot]

Recently, I started using foaming bore cleaner for rifles and it works really good. I have used about everything ever sold, but I usually go back to Hoppes and CLP. Usually clean with Hoppes and lubricate with CLP.

 

[jfrey]

Most of the time now, I use Hoppes semi-auto. Sometimes I use Shooters Choice or Hoppes benchrest. I have also been known to use Butches Bore Shine and Blue Wonder. If the copper gets really bad I use some CR-10 or JB bore paste.

 

[rick458]

I use FP-10, many Q-tips, soft cotton rags, needle, patches, Bore snake, and Sweet's 7.62 for pistols.
I use Dewey coated rods and brass jags with Sweet's 7.62 on the patches for the Rifles, with FP-10 for wipe down.
on the Stainless pistols I use Flitz for light polishing and a buffing wheel with white rouge
for scratches. It works for me

 

[TXTacticalSource]

I use Break Free CLP + Hoppes.

 

[txsyotehntr]

I have nothing more to add. Great information.

 

[Major Woody]

Any cheap cleaner like CLP, break free or WD 40 to de-carbonize. I use a Sonicare, [just save the old brush heads], with Eds Red Cleaner for the little parts. Wilson Combat oil for re-assembly. Foaming bore cleaner, then patched with Mother's polymer car wax to ultra clean and polish the bore.

 

[Destroyer219]

Rem-Oil all the way