Is it all good or are there real differences in the suggestions above? I’ve been using Slip products for cleaning and lube.

Hoppes No. 9, grabbed synthetic on clearance recently. CLP for everything else. Slide glide on greased parts.

MPro7 works well and has no smell. I also mix Hoppes 50/50 with kroil. You will need a copper cleaner for heavy fouling, Barnes CR10 works well or you can get industrial ammonia from Ace Hardware (just don't leave it in for more than 15 minutes).

MPRO 7

Hoppe's for solvent and cologne. Break Free CLP for anything else.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This

I know I chimed in earlier, but I was on my phone, so I didn't add details.

I used to use Sweet's 762 and it did a good job of cleaning, but it's ammonia based. I have to super-clean barrels for nitriding, which means getting all the copper and carbon out of old or broken in barrels. I can't leave Sweet's overnight without damaging the barrels, so it may take me a couple of days to super-clean a barrel with Sweet's.

After switching to Bore-Tech copper remover, I was cleaning barrels quicker. It is also not an ammonia based cleaner and it's non-toxic, and it doesn't smell. I can leave it in my barrels overnight and let it eat away the copper.

I have also left dabs of their carbon remover on caked-on carbon in the gas system, and the next day, it wipes away.

Their Eliminator is really good and does both, but not as efficiently as the ones made for their respective removal type. I use Eliminator for general purpose cleaning and the other stuff for detail cleaning.

I also use Kroil as well, to remove carbon.

For a gun grease (M14's and Garands), my favorite is XF-7 gun grease, and lately I've been using Lucas gun oil to lube my AR's.

Tony.

I still use Weapon Shield. I've been using it for ten or fifteen years, quite a while anyway.

I have mentioned this several times over the years, but never pictured it. I usually clean my removeable pistol barrels by soaking them for a couple of days or longer in (original) Hoppe’s #9 solvent.
With few exceptions that occasionally require a few passes with a bronze or nylon brush, all the fouling can usually be removed with a tight patch on a proper jag.

Except for the soaking time, it’s a quick and easy method that doesn’t risk damaging the barrel by excessive or improper scrubbing.



Added: And FWIW, I have conducted side-by-side experiments using Kroil and Hoppe's #9 with the above immersion method.
Hoppe's works much better.

I use MPro7 as it is non-toxic and doesn't smell. I do most of my tinkering in a bedroom used as an office. I use MPro7 copper remover as necessary.

SLIP 2000, SLIP EWG, and Brian Enos' Slide Glide for lube.

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For pistols I immersion soak the barrels in original Hoppe’s #9 for a few days.

Huh...
I suppose I would try that if a barrel was really fouled.
But for me, a patch of solvent through the barrel a few times followed by a patch with a little gun oil is usually sufficient.

I use Hoppes Elite water based cleaner for most stuff.

Break Free CLP for boresnakes, Break Free LP for oil, and Break Free Foaming Bore Cleaner for copper fouling.

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Die hard Hoppe's man!!! See no need to change.

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Originally posted by downtownv:
Hoppes is about to run out and there have been a lot of higher-tech cleaners out there in the past 5 years. What are you in love with?
Thanks.

Still in love with Hoppes and haven't found a need to cheat on her yet.

Was a Hoppes man until they changed the formula, since then I have used Shooters' Choice.

Love it!

https://www.midwayusa.com/gun-...2B4294961811%2B20763

Ballistol, nothing finer. Does a good job of getting the debris from plastic shotgun wads out of the barrel and it's not only a cleaner/CLP it is also a food safe anteseptic, leather and wood conditioner, and a rust inhibitor.

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Originally posted by sigfreund:
I have mentioned this several times over the years, but never pictured it. I usually clean my removeable pistol barrels by soaking them for a couple of days or longer in (original) Hoppe’s #9 solvent.
With few exceptions that occasionally require a few passes with a bronze or nylon brush, all the fouling can usually be removed with a tight patch on a proper jag.

Except for the soaking time, it’s a quick and easy method that doesn’t risk damaging the barrel by excessive or improper scrubbing.



Added: And FWIW, I have conducted side-by-side experiments using Kroil and Hoppe's #9 with the above immersion method.
Hoppe's works much better.

Wish I had some original Hoppes, the revised formula isn’t worth a shit to me.
I tried this soaking method with that and I might as well soaked the barrel in piss.

I like Boretech, still requires scrubbing.

I use Ballistol for general cleaning, followed up by a couple of bore swabs using Hoppes just to be sure that the bore is good and clean. I have used Hoppes for over 30 years and switched over to Ballistol a couple of years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7P2IMn4pYE

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Originally posted by sigmoid:
I tried this soaking method with that ....

Odd.
I don’t know exactly when the formula was changed, but if it was at least 10 years ago, and perhaps longer as Internet chatter has it, that was before I acquired the version in the bottle pictured. I’ve been using that supply with complete success for several years now. My usual practice is to leave barrels soaking in the solvent for at least a couple of days, and usually longer. Sometimes overnight soaking produces good results, depending upon the degree of fouling, but I’ve never tried getting away with just a few hours.

FWIW, though, I suspect that urine would probably work pretty well as an immersion cleaner—as long as one didn’t mind its additional effects besides removing the fouling. There are old anecdotes about using pee to soften the heavy fouling in blackpowder musket barrels, so who knows? Shooters are willing to experiment widely enough to support the plethora of choices we have these days, so perhaps there’s an opportunity just waiting for someone to exploit. I mean, if we should be ready to drink our urine to survive in the wilderness, why not clean our guns with it?