End of year gun cleaning

There are many options and everyone has a different favorite bore cleaner. For a deep clean you need a carbon cleaner and a copper cleaner. Only use nylon brushes and jags with patches.

To remove plastic from wads in shotgun barrels a gunsmith recommended mpro 7 , copper brush w extension and cordless drill. Spray in barrel let it soak then use wire brush. Repeat a cpl of times with some patches between. Then use favourite clp. I shoot lots of clays so i try and do this a few times a yr on clay guns and once a yr on hunting shotguns

If you hunt saltwater marshes, you may want to pull the trigger group and clean it as well with CLP. You can use canned air like keyboard cleaner to blow it out. Just be careful and don't dislodge any springs.

CRC 3-36.

I'm not worrying about mine this year. I bought my gun from a buddy in October. The FFL dealer we did paperwork through took it all apart and sonic cleaned it.

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When I shot a lot I would clean with Ed's Red

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not many people know about Ed's Red .... you shot in benchrest or F-class matches. I started using ER back in 1989 for my 6PPC - short range benchrest.

Ballistol top clean and then motul synthetic chain lube on anything that slides. Mobil 1 0w20 on anything that rusts.

What yall using on yalls wooden stocks?

There is a channel on youtube that did an experiment on the best oil protectant a few years ago.

Frog lube won pretty handily.
If it didn't smell like it does, I'd still have it. My wife can't handle the smell though.

I have pretty much used nothing but military-issued CLP and Hoppes #9. CLPs not a great solvent so cleaning with it can be slow (hence the Hoppes), but it is a very good corrosion inhibitor. CLP works over time to get under carbon, good basic cleaning then put mine in the safe with a light coating to keep working for the next several weeks or months. Clean again and repeat. Basically the same as we do in the military, we don't white glove clean anything, get them clean enough then let CLP do the work over time. I have over a gallon on the old CLP that you still have to shake up to stir the teflon solids, made in 1995 and I'll probably still have plenty left when I'm gone. The only thing I don't use it on for main lubrication is my Garand and M1A, use synthetic bearing grease for those.