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I'll add to the CLP story. When I was in the National Guard in the early 1990's we had M-16's from Vietnam. When the weather was bad or the training budget was low, we would have a weapons cleaning day or weekend where we would clean all the M-16's & other weapons. We would clean the M-16's with CLP and after very carefully scrutiny from the armorer, the guns would go back in racks when clean. A couple of months after a weapons cleaning weekend the armory got inspected and all the weapons cleaned with CLP had dirty barrels. The CLP had pulled more carbon fouling from the barrels as the guns sat in the armory racks.

More plainly the CLP will continue to pull carbon fouling out of the barrel until there isn't any more. Sounds great in theory, in practice, with an old gun, you could clean it every week for a year and the CLP will still pull fouling out of the steel.

I don't really see any downside to a gun barrel cleaning product that continues to clean out carbon fouling until none remains. In fact, one of the big fears with older vintage guns that may have pitted barrels is that even aggressive cleaning and scrubbing may not get all of the accumulated fouling and residue out of the bottom of the pits. Pits usually aren't as deep as they look, but nobody wants them to get any worse.

I've used a military surplus CLP and a couple commercial CLP products, and never had any issue with them creeping into the wood or anyplace they didn't belong. I still have a bunch of Breakfree CLP from years ago when the local Big Lots Store had it for 19 cents a can. Wicking or capillary action is essential for any penetrating oil to be really effective. And any light thin lubricant will creep downhill due to something called gravity. The trick is to not use an excessive amount.