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These days I use Balistol. I run a Bore snake once or twice and the barrel sparkles. wiping down the innards cleans up the guns pretty quickly and efficiently. I have a small tube of TW25 that I got [abbreviated profanity deleted] fee at the Houston TA convention. I touch up the sliding parts with it. The small tube is probably a lifetime supply. If I were to run out I would get a tin of Lubriplate. A tiny bit of oil on the gas rings of my AR. The Balistol seems to do a decent enough job cleaning and lubing everything.

The main disadvantage of Balistol is that it is an aerosol, and tends to go all over the place even with the straw thingy. If after the initial cleaning I find that I need to touch up, something such as a bolt face or gas tube I'll use the Hoppes #9.

My guns don't get all that dirty, I clean them after every shooting and am not particularly meticulous about cleaning them It probably doesn't take me more than 5 minutes to clean any of them.