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Just received these great snap cups with cotton mop from USA. Great accesories for taking care our guns even if they are hammer guns.

A bit WD-40 on the cotton mop and Milady is ready to rest until the start of the new season.

How many of you use these accesories?

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It's not. It is liquefied gas such as butane, isobutane, or propane.

Jimmy, respectfully, there's a big difference between aerosol compressants and compressed air in my shop.

I've used Clenzoil for wiping down my guns, using their wiping pad. It has worked very well and has a good viscosity for most usages.
Karl

Thank you for your words and advice!

I'm surprised because you say that these snap caps with cotton mop can create rust in the chamber. I think quite the opposite. I put some WD-40 oil on the cotton mop and I hope it will be good for the barrel.

Best regards!

If you can’t rust a gun in Mississippi where can you. Take care.

Some time has passed...

The cotton mop is slightly wet from the oil and the chamber is in perfect condition.

To each his own, but there are simply far better products than WD-40 for the care of fine firearms.

I see it the same as the guy who pays $1000-1500 for a quality gun dog pup, feeds it the cheapest supermarket food he can get, and then wonders why it's at the vet all the time.

I don't think air is the propellent in aerosol cans.

Today I have take my lovely single barrel gun with the snap cap inside and have a sad surprise. The cotton had rust and I had to clean the inside of the barrel very well.

Some of you were wright when advice me.

Best regards!

When the hunting season was over I put my shotgun away with the snap cap inside. Yesterday I took it out to check it and found that the cotton had a brown wick. I looked inside the chamber and there was also a stain. I cleaned everything well with a 28ga chamber brush, oil and cotton cloths that I wiped with a ramrod.

To clean my guns I use these two products. The oil for general cleaning and the grease to put on some parts where there is friction or rubbing.

I will not use these cotton snap caps again, where I don't want to put grease on it because I don't like grease in the chamber.

In the 1980's I had a small gunship in western MN. WD-40 was a money maker for me. Duck hunters would spray their triggers and actions with the stuff and it would turn to a thick gummy varnish like crud. Their shotguns would quit working and I made fair money cleaning them and getting them up and running. I won't use it on my rifles and shotguns.

I don't leave snap caps in my shotguns, I fire them on snap caps and remove the barrels take.the snap caps out and put it back together, the springs are.relaxed until you open the barrels and cock it.

It has been posted many times -- by others
WD-40 is not an oil.
I use Ballistol