Keeping your guns clean and preventing rust
There has been much improvement in synthetic lubrication in recent years and I’m hoping that the older toxic gun cleaning materials that I have in my home will eventually get used up and cleaned out. I’m not going to push Green Energy or some environmental issues on you, but I have often wondered if I should have been more cautious in the way I cleaned some of my guns and my exposure to some of it. I’m aware that good ventilation is important, but there are many times when I have attempted to use gloves while cleaning, but it’s very hard to get some parts back into place when you are using them.
There was a time when I had large containers of Hoppes gun cleaning liquids and those were some of the harshest. I’ve moved towards using Break Free CLP for most of my gun cleaning, but in recent years I have been using Mobil One synthetic oil for most of my lubrication. Gun cleaning supplies are becoming easier to use and the old cleaning rods of the past can become your newest rack queen. I use pistol cleaning rods fairly often, but I rarely use my one piece cleaning rod and mostly use Otis gun cleaning kits or boresnakes for my semi-auto rifles. The less you have to touch your firearms or the dirty gun patches or cleaning brushes the better you’ll be. Long exposures to toxic materials does catch up to you.