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How do you like to clean your stainless handguns? #11202095 05/23/16
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OP Sakoluvr Campfire Outfitter Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 12,467 Where the wild things are.	Any products you like to use? Simichrome? Mothers mag cleaner? Faith and love of others knows no mileage nor bounds. That's simply the way it is. dogzapper After the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box. Italian Proverb

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Re: How do you like to clean your stainless handguns? Sakoluvr #11202360 05/23/16
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P_Weed Campfire Outfitter P Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 13,780 Dakota Territory	Just regular gun oil & a cotton cloth.

Re: How do you like to clean your stainless handguns? Sakoluvr #11202449 05/23/16
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4ager Campfire Ranger Joined: Jul 2011 Posts: 23,453	You're supposed to clean them? Originally Posted by Mannlicher America needs to understand that our troops are not 'disposable'. Each represents a family; Fathers, Mothers, Sons, Daughters, Cousins, Uncles, Aunts... Our Citizens are our most valuable treasure; we waste far too many.

Re: How do you like to clean your stainless handguns? Sakoluvr #11202484 05/23/16
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gitem_12 Campfire Ranger G Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 17,098	Mine seem to be dishwasher safe The government plans these shootings by targeting kids from kindergarten that the government thinks they can control with drugs until the appropriate time--DerbyDude Whatever. Tell the oompa loompa's hey for me. [/quote]. LtPPowell

Re: How do you like to clean your stainless handguns? Sakoluvr #11202504 05/23/16
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deflave Campfire Sage Joined: Aug 2007 Posts: 115,424 South Florida	Flitz. Dave Originally Posted by Geno67 Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Originally Posted by Judman Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. Originally Posted by KSMITH My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house

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Re: How do you like to clean your stainless handguns? Sakoluvr #11205472 05/24/16
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Idaho_Shooter Campfire Ranger I Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 25,828 West Treasure Valley, Idaho	clean em? THAT'S why I bought SS to begin with! Seriously, cotton flannel and a bit of gun scrubber on the outside. I am still using Hoppe's 9 and a bronze brush on the bore of my revolvers. People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.

Re: How do you like to clean your stainless handguns? Sakoluvr #11205667 05/24/16
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Cheyenne Campfire Outfitter Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 10,582 Wyoming	I use Break-Free CLP just like on everything else. I did want to pimp out an SP101 a little though, so I used Mother's Mag to shine it up. "Don't believe everything you see on the Internet" - Abraham Lincoln

Re: How do you like to clean your stainless handguns? Sakoluvr #11205861 05/24/16
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Reloder28 Campfire Ranger R Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 20,873 Deer Park, Tx	THe most cleaning I do is with some manner of air blast on the rear sight & the Laser lens for lint. "I never thought I'd live to see the day that a U.S. president would raise an army to invade his own country." Robert E. Lee

Re: How do you like to clean your stainless handguns? Reloder28 #11205959 05/24/16
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Dave_in_WV Campfire Outfitter D Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 12,664 West Virginia	Carb cleaner on a rag. The Karma bus always has an empty seat when it comes around.- High Brass There's battle lines being drawn Nobody's right if everybody's wrong

Re: How do you like to clean your stainless handguns? Sakoluvr #11205999 05/25/16
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RoninPhx Campfire Ranger R Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 16,000 arizona	after cleaning i have started using a car usage carnuba wax on a number of them, think it protects the metal. THE BIRTH PLACE OF GERONIMO

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Re: How do you like to clean your stainless handguns? Sakoluvr #11206002 05/25/16
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Re: How do you like to clean your stainless handguns? Sakoluvr #11206237 05/25/16
Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 12,467 Where the wild things are. Sakoluvr OP Campfire Outfitter
OP Sakoluvr Campfire Outfitter Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 12,467 Where the wild things are.	I used a scotch brite pad and kroil on the front of the cylinder and it took most of the carbon off. Carb cleaner not too harsh? Faith and love of others knows no mileage nor bounds. That's simply the way it is. dogzapper After the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box. Italian Proverb

Re: How do you like to clean your stainless handguns? Sakoluvr #11206293 05/25/16
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teamprairiedog Campfire Regular T Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 1,571 flyover country	After cleaning the bore in the usual manner, occasionally I'll remove the grips and hose it down with Gunscrubber, carb cleaner or even brake cleaner. molɔ̀ːn labé skýla

Re: How do you like to clean your stainless handguns? Sakoluvr #11206387 05/25/16
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Son_of_the_Gael Campfire Tracker S Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 6,656 Oklahoma City	Gun scrubber for the crud & a little stainless grease I bought a couple of decades ago on the rails. Lewis lead remover if necessary & a bit of whichever oil is handy for the rest. 'Four legs good, two legs baaaad." ---------------------------------------------- "Jimmy, some of it's magic, Some of it's tragic, But I had a good life all the way." (Jimmy Buffett) SotG

Re: How do you like to clean your stainless handguns? Sakoluvr #11207847 05/25/16
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Steve_in_PA Campfire Member S Joined: Nov 2012 Posts: 109 Pennsylvania	Same stuff I use to clean any other gun; Breakfree/CLP, Hoppe's, etc. I use a Lead Away cloth to clean the front of the cylinder face.

Re: How do you like to clean your stainless handguns? Sakoluvr #11212305 05/28/16
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5thShock Campfire Regular Joined: Aug 2012 Posts: 2,436	The gun cleaning mania shows an underlying disconnect with, and fear of, the elements of fire and brimstone that are the physical and spiritual basis of the non-socially subjugated animus of the firearm.

Re: How do you like to clean your stainless handguns? Sakoluvr #11215494 05/30/16
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VaHillbilly Campfire Outfitter V Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 7,756 SW Virginia	Flitz for the front of the cylinder and around the forcing cone, good old Hoppe's for the bore then a wipe down with Remoil and they look like new again........Hb

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