What's best for pistol cleaning & lube products

[seebarg]

Hi there CGN's! Getting back into pistol shooting, just bought a CZ SP-01, what are your favorite gun cleaning & lubes? For what reasons? Would love to hear from you guys who do a lot of shooting as to what works best for both

 

[gnmontey]

CLP.... ask me why.

M

 

[seebarg]

OK, I will ask, why?

 

[GLS_1956]

Hoppe's 9 for the bore, something like CLP for the rest of the gun. Don't over lube.

 

[gnmontey]

OK, I will ask, why?

Because I have a gallon of it. It's going to last me my life time

M

 

[easyrider604]

Ed's Red works for pretty much all my cleaning. Remington gun oil for lube.

 

[jamesD83]

Hoppe's 9 for the bore, something like CLP for the rest of the gun. Don't over lube.

This gets my vote. Hoppe's 9 is a good solvent. I use clp as the lube on pistols.
On rifles i use clp & also feel a need for grease on some - (AR, m14)

 

[j2kool]

Ballistol and G96 gun treatment

 

[Mr. Friendly]

I've always like Hoppe's, but there are so many products that others swear by, it's pretty hard to truthfully know.

one thing you should have in your kit though is Ballistol. one of them lil mini-can's in your range kit and you'll never have to carry anything else for a quick clean or lube at your station.

 

[wayupnorth]

G96.

because half the year im shooting outside in the cold and i dont ever want my AR to freeze up half way through a mag again.

and it smells great!

 

[seebarg]

Do you guys use a bore snake for a quick clean?

 

[seebarg]

sounds good, will check into some of these and see if I can get anything locally, thanks!

 

[StoneHorse]

Another vote for Ballistol as a cleaner because it is nontoxic to me and the environment. But some do find the smell of Ballistol a little hard to take. I've also just started using a synthetic, food grade (N1) oil as a lube (no smell).

 

[bsand]

For lube, I use Royal Purple 0W-20. Mostly cause thats what Angus Hobdell of CZ Custom shop told me to use (motor oil that is).

Isopropyl alcohol for cleaning, then bore solvent like Wipeout for the barrel. I do sometimes use ballistol or G96 too.

 

[mcwalther]

Eezox. Cleans great and has exceptional anti rust properties.

 

[05RAV]

Ballistol.
Smells great like licorice because it contains anise oil. In contrast to many other cleaners that could be carcinogenic, Ballistol is absolutely benign for your health.

 

[Lonesome Donkey]

I started out in 1972 using an Outers cleaning kit with their solvent, oil, and moly lube, patches, and an aluminum rod with a brass bore brush and nylon jags, all packed into the usual hinged flat tin box.

It worked fine, but I switched to Hoppe's #9 and light machine oil, because the oil was easy to get and I liked the smell of the Hoppe's

I've never seen any reason to switch. Guns are still guns and these products do an excellent job.

Ballistol might work okay, but I think that faith placed in a single do-all product is akin to buying snake oil.

 

[DT741]

CLP

Using it at work for 14yrs and never had issues, so its good enough for my personnal firearms

 

[Pencilneck]

G-96 CLP here too. Sig phosphate coating seems to like it and as mentioned earlier, it smells great.

 

[StoneHorse]

I started out in 1972 using an Outers cleaning kit with their solvent, oil, and moly lube, patches, and an aluminum rod with a brass bore brush and nylon jags, all packed into the usual hinged flat tin box.

It worked fine, but I switched to Hoppe's #9 and light machine oil, because the oil was easy to get and I liked the smell of the Hoppe's

I've never seen any reason to switch. Guns are still guns and these products do an excellent job.

Ballistol might work okay, but I think that faith placed in a single do-all product is akin to buying snake oil.

Try it before you condemn it. Ballistol has been around for over 100 years so hardly "snake oil". Some people can't get past the strong black licorice smell on a open bottle/can; I like it myself.