i spend so much money on.......

[todd]

welp, i did IT again!!!! i bought some g96 gun treatment, not that i NEED it. i was perfectly fine with gunslick's foaming bore cleaner and ballistol. i was fine when i mixed atf and mineral spirits. what more do i need? they have g96 instead of breakfree clp. buy it, you'll like it!!! so i bought it. i'll use a time or two and then it goes on my shelf. and it won't be alone!!!!!

i have
rem oil
hoppe's #9 gun oil
hoppe's #9 bore solvent
birchwood gun scrubber
shooter's choice mc7 bore solvent
sweets
kroil
hornady 1 shot gun cleaner
butch's bore solvent
shooter's choice copper solvent
sharp shooters wipe out bore solvent
remington bore cleaner
shooter's choice lead cleaner
frog lube
3in1 oil
rig gun grease
teflon gun oil
pro shot bore cleaner
pro shot copper bore cleaner
birchwood gun oil
and there is few more to boot!!!!!

i think i got gun cleaner syndrome(gcs) to go along with rifle collection syndrome(rcs) too. i don't want to talk about gun cleaning rods(gcr), the gun brushes/patches(gbp) or the shooting rests and bags(srb) either.

i have a problem............

 

[Rick]

i have a problem.........…

Hhmmm . . . Must be a non-gun problem cause I didn't see anything here that could called a problem.

 

[Pistolero]

I have found G96 to be better than average on helping to harmlessly (or minimum harm) removing
surface rust from guns with burlap, or 0000 steel wool, or even 600 grit or 800 grit, although I prefer
the burlap and 0000 steel wool over the paper. G96 seems to help lift off the rust. I had to clean up some
guns in an non-AC home in Fla for a family member, worked well.

 

[waco]

Kroil and Bore Tech Eliminator are my current go to choices. On occasion I will get out the JB bore compound for VERY copper fouled barrels.

 

[Ian]

What's "copper fouling"?

I just keep Ed's around anymore. There's sudsy ammonia in the kitchen in a Shooter's Choice bottle if I need it.

 

[waco]

What's "copper fouling"?

I just keep Ed's around anymore. There's sudsy ammonia in the kitchen in a Shooter's Choice bottle if I need it.

Well. Some of us people way out West still have large expanses of public land to shoot long distance on. I’m still working on getting PB to a grand.

 

[Ian]

Have Tom make you up a microband paper patch mould for your .338 Lapua and that will be no problem.

 

[Rally]

Geez Todd, no Mobil1?

 

[todd]

Geez Todd, no Mobil1?

thats on another shelf!!!!!!

 

[fiver]

I use quite a bit of G-96.
even if it's just a light spritz and a wipe down on the outside of the gun from time to time.
it does also seem to lift off light rust that you might not even see until you wipe it off.

 

[Bret4207]

I like the smell of G96. Used a lot of it back in the day. Not quite up there with Hoppes#9, but pleasant.

 

[todd]

i used atv and mineral spirits the other day on my m94. it did a good job, so i will not have the rifle cerakoted. the g96 i did my 93 spanish mauser, 98 mauser and mossberg m500(12ga). i gots to say wow to g96. it removed rust, cosmoline and all else. g96 has a place on my reloading bench with ballistol and gunslick foaming bore cleaner.

 

[Pistolero]

I like G96 as a cleaner, esp of Fla surface rust, more than any other purpose, but it seems to be a great
general purpose lube, too. Not sure how it does the rust trick, but a piece of coarse cloth or 0000 steel
wool with G96 does surface rust easier and better than anything else I have used.
I'm kinda neutral on the smell of G96, love the old Hoppe's #9 smell. It just smells like good times with
guns! Imprinted as a teen cleaning guns with H#9, and it is a permanent good memory.

Bill

 

[Ian]

You can put a splash of Hoppe's in with other cleaners just for the smell. I've taken to doing that with Ed's Red. Just a spoonfull in a bottle is all it takes.

 

[462]

Ian,
You just earned the Good Idea of the Day Award! No gold star, ribbon, medal, or parchment though.

 

[Ian]

I put Alberto VO5 hair pomade in my case lube to cover the smell of lanolin too. It may be that I like the smell more than I should for a blonde guy with arrow-straight hair, y m m v.

 

[Pistolero]

Hmmm. My lanolin has no smell at all.

 

[fiver]

spend enough time around sheep and anything associated with them smells of sheep.
as does anything,,, well,, that's been around them.

I know a guy that uses VO-5 conditioner for case and swaging lube.
I have always been under the impression that VO-5 uses lanolin as a base ingredient anyway.

 

[Ian]

I think it's mostly USP petrolatum, but it is slightly amber colored and probably does have (or used to have) lanolin in it. By itself it's a mediocre drawing lube but if you add a little lanolin or even melt it gently with some beeswax it does much better. You're spot on about the sheep, I've done my share of shearing and herding as a teenager and I think the smell is still stuck in my sinuses somewhere. It isn't that the smell is strong even when shearing, it's the nature of the smell that sticks with you. My lanolin came from the Wiljen FWFL group buy about ten years ago and he divvied up a 5-gallon bucket of the stuff so I'm sure it's "Industrial grade" stuff. Lansinoh doesn't smell as strong.

 

[fiver]

I think that lanisol stuff has been brominated or air whipped or somehow floofed up, maybe bumped with some glycerin.
it's too creamy and airy light.

yewah buddy.
that smell is unforgettable, hard to describe too.
like dirt, and butt crack, and hot itchy been in a wood chest without moth balls for 5 years wool blanket that's slightly damp from horse sweat.
with a little pepper thrown in.