I'm about to purchase a new hunting rifle and i want to know how to clean it before i shoot it. I know there is a cleaner that you can spray into the action and it evaporates. comes in a blue and black can...? is CLP the same thing without the evaporation part?
Should I do that, wipe down the action and then run a boresnake through once or twice and call it good?
If I have a trademark saying, it would be, "More damage is done while cleaning firearms than while shooting them."
In the case of a new hunting rifle. I would simply use a brass or aluminum cleaning rod of the proper diameter and run two (2) consecutive patches soaked in Hoppe's No. 9 solvent through the barrel, then two (2) consecutive dry patches to clean away any of the solvent. Finally, lightly oil any of the moving parts with a light gun oil.
Much of the preaching that goes on about cleaning new guns, mostly concerns military-style rifles that have been put away in storage for many years using thick coats of cosmoline grease as a rust inhibiting agent. Modern day sporting arms usually leave the factory with just a light coat of gun oil on them to protect them from rust while being stored in wholesale warehouses or gunshop stockrooms. Henc, the cleaning process for hunting rifles is not as labor intensive as it is for military rifles.
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