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Hoppes #9 I have bought 2 gallons since 1984 still have 1/2 gal left. For lubrication and rust suppression I mix mineral spirits and mineral oil with 1% 30w non det oil . I found Kroil penetrates the wood to aggressively
wear those safety glasses
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Hoppes #9 forever! You're shooting a traditional firearm so use a traditional cleaner. It works great too.
John McCain is my war hero.
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Is the Hoppe's being sold today the same as years gone by? I don't think the modern stuff smells the same as what I remember
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What in the hell are you guys shooting that requires industrial chemicals to clean from polished steel?
I use Rem Oil, and only Rem Oil, with a tight fitting bronze brush on a stout aluminum rod.
The 410 requires rotary drive with a 50 caliber brush, but the other gauges get squeaky clean.
Choke tubes get the drill press/tight brush treatment once in a while, but nothing is required to dissolve the plastic. The brush does just fine.
"The price of good shotgunnery is constant practice" - Fred Kimble
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Yesterday I tried Hoppes Benchrest 9 Copper solvent and it shortly became sticky, almost tar like. Never again.
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I really like Shooter's Choice bore and choke tube cleaner #7.
Socialism is almost the worst.
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Hoppe's #9. I would really miss the aroma if I changed to anything else!
Jim
The 2nd Amendment IS an unalienable right.
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I had one of the large glass bottles of Hoppes #9 that I inadvertently left in a box in an attic for several years. It went through several brutally hot summers and brutally cold winters. The stuff turned to varnish and lost its' typical pleasant aroma. A bottle of shooters choice (before the #7) in the same box didn't turn to varnish. Odd, but I lost faith in Hoppes after this inadvertent "experiment".
Socialism is almost the worst.
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I always use Hoppe's No. 9 and, for copper fouling, Sweet's.
GMC(SW) - USN, Retired (1978-2001)
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I really like Shooter's Choice bore and choke tube cleaner #7. +1 on the Shooters Choice. My father recently turned over the last remnants of his gun closet to me, including two old half full bottles of #9. No telling how old this stuff was, but at least 30 years old. Still works good and smells like it did when I was a teenager.
Last edited by Doverham; 03/13/14 10:51 PM.
Such a long, long time to be gone, and a short time to be there.
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