6 Steps For Efficient Gun Cleaning

These are the 6 most important steps to gun cleaning:

Step 1. ALWAYS be certain the gun is unloaded and pointed in a protected direction!

Step 2. Rigorously take gun apart, making sure to keep track of all parts. Please reference your house owners handbook for detailed directions on methods to disassemble weapon. For most over/unders, when the action is closed, you remove the forestock (wooden half the place your entrance hand goes beneath the barrel) by pulling down on the lever on the forestock. With the forestock off, you open the motion of the gun and pull up and forward on the barrels (watch out not to let the barrels fall off the gun bore cleaner and to the ground as soon as the action is open). You now have three distinct items, the receiver (stock and set off assembly), the barrels, and the forestock. (Additionally, reference our gun cleaning video to observe along visually).

Step 3. Clean your weapon with a solvent (such as Hoppe's 9). Inside the barrels, use a bore brush or a rod with a patch with solvent applied to the patch. (desireable pushing from the breach to the front of barrels (the same direction the shot/slug travels). Then use a clear dry patch and push that patch by means of the barrels. Proceed this alternating process utilizing clean patches (first with solvent and then without) until the patches no longer come out dirty. Use a toothbrush with solvent to scrub other metal components of gun to remove gathered residue/deposits/"gunk".

Step 4. Remove any remaining solvent from surfaces. Wipe down the firearm and all of the parts to remove any residual solvent (which if left on metal can be dangerous).

Step 5. Wipe down metal elements with light coat of oil/lubricant/rust inhibitor. To guard the firearm and assist it operate correctly, wipe down metal elements with a light coat of gun oil or lubricant corresponding to silicone or RemLube by Remington. Use the lubricant/oil sparingly. A bit goes an extended way. If the storing the gun, try to not go away fingerprints on it. While the fingerprints will probably not do anything to impact the function of the gun, they can be ugly and the oils on your skin might mar the end of the metal.

Step 6. Reassemble weapon and confirm that it is functioning properly. Holding the receiver horizontal and with the barrels at a 45 degree angle to the ground, slide the barrels down onto/into the receiver until the "hook" at the backside of the barrel(s) catches in the receiver. Lift up on the entrance of the barrels until they lock into place. Now reattach the forestock. With the small latch on the forestock open, slide the forestock into place and easily shut the latch. Then open the breach of the gun and shut it again to make sure reassembly was carried out correctly. All components should move smoothly without any excess liquids/oils/and many others visible on any half(s) of the gun. Do NOT use undue drive on the weapon. Chances are high if you must use a lot (if any) muscle, you are doing something incorrectly.