| If the gun fails to fire in that situation, you probably | | | | chamber or muzzle crown from damage. |
| won't live to regret it anyway. Neither will your family. | | | | Clean the action with a blast of pressurized solvent |
| (Of course, you can hide in your room and wait for | | | | such as Gun Scrubber by Birchwood Casey. It cleans |
| your local overworked and understaffed police force | | | | without leaving a residue. |
| to come to your rescue. But that's another subject.) | | | | Oil Lightly! Oil attracts dirt! If you can see oil, you |
| Clean Your Gun! | | | | probably oiled too much! |
| Cleaning Tips | | | | If you're concerned that you've oiled too much, try |
| Use a bronze wire brush for normal bore cleaning. | | | | storing your gun with the barrel down. This will |
| When removing copper, heavy lead fouling, or plastic | | | | prevent oil or solvent from seeping into the wooden |
| shotgun wad fouling use a nylon brush with Shooters | | | | stock. |
| Choice or similar bore cleaner. (Shooters Choice is a | | | | Strip clean about every 800 rounds or so. If you |
| powerful bore cleaner, will eat bronze brushes.) | | | | don't know how and don't have an owners manual, |
| Run the bronze brush through the bore once for | | | | take the gun to a Gunsmith. It doesn't cost that |
| every round fired. (I prefer Hoppes #9 solvent for | | | | much. (It's cheaper than having him replace that |
| light cleaning.) | | | | spring that went flying into the recesses of your oh |
| If you are serious about the care of your gun invest | | | | so clean garage or basement work room.) |
| in a coated steel or brass cleaning rod. Aluminum rods | | | | There's much more to gun care, but this info should |
| are soft. They collect grit and particles that can | | | | put you ahead of the game. If you want to learn |
| scratch the bore. | | | | more, check out a hobby gunsmith course such as |
| Wipe the rod off after every pass through the bore. | | | | one offered here at The Fish Creek House and Gun |
| Use a brass jag to push patches through the bore. | | | | Club in Southwest Montana We offer Firearms |
| Dragging a dirty patch in a slotted tip back through | | | | training repair, rebluing, nickel, chrome plating, teflon, |
| the bore is not what I call cleaning. | | | | custom work from recoil pad installation to complete |
| Use a bore guide or brass "bumper" to protect the | | | | custom rifles and handguns built to your specs. |