I've been using Gunzilla cleaner / lube / preservative for cleaning and Brownell's Friction Defense oil for handgun lubrication. I also sometimes use a specialty grease on the slide rails, and I use a high temperature / high pressure grease on the bolt carrier and bolt of an AR-15.SQLGeek wrote:I've done some searching on this and see it has been discussed before but I'd like to start a new thread on this topic to see what folks use for cleaning and lubrication.
Right now I use an Otis cleaning kit (http://www.otisgun.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;) along with some brass and nylon brushes and q-tips and scrap rags from t-shirts to accomplish most of my cleaning needs. I bought a boresnake for my M1 but I'm not really sure how well it works. I use Breakfree for my cleaner and lubricant along with the surplus grease pots in my M1.
My M59 cleans up great but the M1 seems to take a long time to clean well. I will run a bunch of patches through the bore but seem to have a hard time getting a patch to come out clean. When I check the bore with a borel ight, it seems shiny and clean. Any recommendations on what I could do differently?
What do you all use for your cleaning and lubrication needs?
For process, I soak the bore with cleaner, run a patch through it, then scrub it with a bore brush, run another wet patch through it and let it sit 3 or 4 minutes.
For materials, I use precut flannel patches of the military style, which is a bit rougher than the commercial types and seem to work a little better for me. I also use Q-tips or a patch folded and grasped with an angled tweezer to get into the slide cuts and similar tight areas.
After letting the cleaner soak a bit, I repeat the bore brush scrub and patch treatment which usually gets it pretty clean, and I follow that with the boresnake treatment and check the results with a clean patch with a little bit of Gunzilla on it to leave a coating on the bore and verify all the crud is gone.
I don't start out with the boresnake because I get the worst of the fouling out with the disposable patches so I don't have to keep washing the boresnake.
Semiauto handguns take me about 20 minutes. Rifles take a bit longer because they often take more repetitions of the brush scrub / wet patch cycles, depending on the number of rounds fired.
This process leaves a mirror bright finish on the bore at the end.