[Mongojoe]

I'm sure someone here can suggest other ideas, and I won't/can't say this or that product is "better" than another, but personally, after cleaning a gun, or after handling it, and before putting it away I wipe it down with a silicone treated cloth that I purchased just for this purpose. I keep it in a small, sealed plastic jar on a shelf in the gun room... Occasionally, if I feel the cloth is "drying out", I add a few drops of a product called TIPTON RUST SHIELD REFILL to the jar.......... If I don't plan on having the gun out again for a few years, after cleaning I will wipe it good with a rag I have put a product called BREAK FREE COLLECTOR on, and run a patch with it thru the bore............ Something else I will toss in here...I also use the TIPTON RUST SHIELD cloth to wipe down knives, some reloading tools, and other metal items before putting them away....... What do you use ?

[Hairtrigger]

I use Pledge on my guns when I take them out of the safe and into the field.
I use a Rig Rag on the surface of my guns before going back into the safe and Kroil in the bore

[JDECS]

With all but one gun, I have not found any particular product to be greatly better than another, but for reasons of price, ease of use, availability, and generally high quality, I like Kroil (including the Sili version) and Militec.

For that one gun, a Westpoint single 20GA, not even total immersion in Cosmoline under pressurized dry Nitrogen will stop the bore from rusting! Not a speck on the outside, but if you even whisper the word "humidity" in the same county with that gun, the inside of barrel turns brown.

[BuckBuster310]

Believe it or not good ole WD-40 works great on the exterior of guns!

[Mongojoe]

BuckBuster310, on 06 December 2009 - 01:51 PM, said:

Believe it or not good ole WD-40 works great on the exterior of guns!

WD-40 does work pretty good, on the wood as well as the metal.... I used it for a good many years myself... I also used it on the inner workings when I cleaned the guns, and even ran a patch with it down the bore. In fact, I still keep a can in the gun room for various things, and another can in my shooting/range box...but I don't use it on the inner workings of semi-autos any longer, I found that when the temps started dropping into the single digits and below, it started "getting a bit sticky", and would sometimes prevent the bolt on my semi-auto .22's from moving with enough force to fully close.

BuckBuster310... Welcome... Glad to have you join us.

[Uncle Buck]

I have used WD 40 for years on all of my guns....
Recently I saw some comments from someone on another forum..They claimed a gunsmith told him NEVER to use WD40 on Rem 760's. Seems it eats the O rings where ever they may be on that particular gun????????


Mongojo you probably remember the info we passed back and forth on WD 40. Seems that stuff is made out of fish oil??????I know that a guy on the Bransom River boat told me to use it for catfish down there.. I did have a hit on it when I sprayed it on some cheap hot dogs...
I'm going to have to try it again for Channel, Flatheads, and bullheads... I know that reel started singing when I had them WD 40 hot dogs setting on the bottom of that lake....Only wish that I would have set the hook. I was using two poles and I was maybe 50 yards away when that line started to take off...Glad I had the drag set light on the reel or I am sure the pole would have gone for a swim in that there lake...

[Mongojoe]

LOL... I remember someone telling me about using WD-40 on weiners for catfish...but had forgotten who it was that told me that....but looks like it was you.

[Uncle Buck]

Mongojoe, on 30 December 2009 - 02:12 PM, said:

LOL... I remember someone telling me about using WD-40 on weiners for catfish...but had forgotten who it was that told me that....but looks like it was you.

If your going to try the WD40 on fresh uncooked hotdogs... Use a treble hook and take some light fishing mono line and wrap it around the dog and the treble hook and tie it in a knot too before you cast out...The dogs are soft and tear easy when you swush it out to your fishing spot...Instead of fishing with WD40 and weiners..One ends up Chumming with WD40 and Weiners if you try to put them on the hook with out the leader and the knot.