Part 14. Understanding Firearm Cleaning and Preservation
Understanding Firearm Cleaning and Preservation
Part 14
Eye Balling, The Barrel Inspection
62. Check for rust pits, oil rings, hornet nests, stuck patches, stuck pull-throughs, copper fouling, lead fouling, little fury animals, lumps of copper from gilding material, or lumps of plastic from shotgun wads or just plain dirt.
Hold the firearm or barrel with the breech end near [...]
Part 13. Understanding Firearm Cleaning and Preservation
Understanding Firearm Cleaning and Preservation
Part 13
Guarding the Muzzle
57. If the firearm has a fixed barrel and a bolt that cannot easily be removed the barrel has to be cleaned from the muzzle. Cleaning from the muzzle can be a problem if damage is done to the “crown” of the barrel as it will severely affect [...]
Part 12. Understanding Firearm Cleaning and Preservation.
Understanding Firearm Cleaning and Preservation.
Part 12
USING THE CLEANING EQUIPMENT
Using the Cleaning Rod
52. Clean the barrel, from the breech where ever you can remove the bolt from the rifle or removing the barrel from gun as in a break barrel shotgun. If you have no padded vice or a cleaning stand, place a little piece of [...]
Part 11. Understanding Firearm Cleaning and Preservation.
Understanding Firearm Cleaning and Preservation.
Part Eleven
External Storage of a Firearm.
48. Rusting cannot occur without oxygen, water has no shortage of it , dryness and coldness reduce the rusting process. Warmth melts your rust inhibitors and moisture speeds up the process. Try not to leave guns in any type of gun bag or case, whatever [...]
Part 10. Understanding Firearm Cleaning and Preservation.
Understanding Firearm Cleaning and Preservation.
Part Ten
Protecting the Bore, Storing, Not Boring, I Hope?
43. The barrel has to be clean and dry when its expected to be used for the competition or hunt, always clean out storage grease or any oil before going out shooting. Discharging a firearm with a coating of oil on the [...]
Part 9. Understanding Firearm Cleaning and Preservation.
Understanding Firearm Cleaning and Preservation.
Part Nine
Rust Inhibiting Products
40.There are many products on sale in the gun trade for resisting rust, most suffer from ambitious advertising blurbs that are proved to wash away on the first downpour at the range. Others are for external use on the firearm only. I have been looking for the ideal [...]
Part 8. Understanding Firearm Cleaning and Preservation.
Understanding Firearm Cleaning and Preservation.
Part Eight
Oils Ain’t Just Oils
Lubricating Oil
37. Take some time to chose a good lubricating oil for the moving parts of a firearms mechanism. It can also be used for a short term rust preventative in the barrel, when the firearm is being used every few days. There are many unsatisfactory oils [...]
Part 7. Understanding Firearm Cleaning and Preservation.
Understanding Firearm Cleaning and Preservation.
Part Seven
Cleaning Solutions, Copper or Metal Solvents
31. In today’s, 21st Century centre-fire rifle shooting, high velocity with copper jacketed projectiles is the ‘norm’ not the exception. The propellent powder we burn is non-corrosive and the primer residue is non-corrosive, the copper projectile is not like lead which needs a lubrication to [...]
Part 6. Understanding Firearm Cleaning and Preservation.
Understanding Firearm Cleaning and Preservation.
Part Six
Cleaning Solutions, Powder Solvents
28. A cleaning solution or what is commonly called a ‘Power Solvent’ is fine for cleaning shotguns and most 22 Rimfire rifles, most of them are similar to Hoppe No 9 Powder solvent. Just soak the cleaning brush and apply to the barrel, it’s ideal for removing [...]
Part 5. Understanding Firearm Cleaning and Preservation.
Understanding Firearm Cleaning and Preservation.
Part Five
Cleaning Patches.
24. For many reasons do not use just any old rags to cut up into cleaning patches, other materials do not have the strength or compression especially after they have been washed several times. Sometimes other materials knot up and jam in the barrel, destroying a cleaning rod to [...]