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