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Maybe just take it to your gunsmith

As I said earlier, I would use a gun solvent myself but WD-40 would probably work as a cleaner. You can always use a brass brush if you need to. But to each his own. I am sure everyone likes the way they do it after years of cleaning a gun, right? Can't go wrong with doing it your own way.

If you only shoot when it’s warm, maybe.

If you want your guns to malfunction, just spray them up with WD-40 and go hunting when it’s cold.

WD-40 leaves a waxy sticky material that collects more shit, not less. And when it’s cold, good luck with your firing pins.

When I’m cleaning a shotgun barrel, there is usually a can of WD-40 on my bench. Right next to that is a proper bore solvent, Outers and Remington brands are there today. I toot some compressed air down the bore, which, removes some of the dry crud. Then, mostly because it has a tube to direct the spray, I hit the bore with WD-40, and run a patch or three down the bore. I spray the bore cleaner (both come in pump plastic bottles) down the barrel, brush with a bronze brush, and finish when the patches come clean. I never oil a bore. The guy who ran the French proof house in St. Etienne explained why I should never do that, and, I don’t.

Nobody ever told me to use WD-40 to initiate bore cleaning. I think I just started doing it because it was handy, moved the heavy crud, and allowed me to see the bore in a bit cleaner fashion when I got busy with actual bore solvent, and a bronze brush.

I will use a bit of WD-40 on a clean cloth to wipe fingerprints off of blued metal. It actually gets used for very little in my world, and a can runs most of a decade if the pressure doesn’t seep out of it over time. A few have done that to me.

If you are taking a stock off a double, hosing it with WD-40, and calling it cleaned and lubed, you need to up your game. It isn’t clean, or, lubed.

Best,
Ted