9.15.2017

Art Lander & # 39; Outside: regular cleaning of firearms will help protect your investment

With the current hunting season, rifles and shotguns with no storage space for gun safes or gun in preparation for long-distance travel.

The question to ask every hunter is, how long it has been cleaned thoroughly since this weapon?

Shotguns and rifles buy, new or used - or inherited - represent a significant investment. Routine cleaning is necessary to get the best performance and accuracy and to ensure a long service life. The frequency of cleaning depends on several factors, but in general, firearms should be cleaned away after each output target shooting or viewing session and hunting trips, especially if they get wet or dirty.

Modern guns lock both rimfire and always center is to be cleaned from the chamber into the mouth. Insert a swab of the mouth, how to affect it in the course of the earth to damage the crown of the port accuracy. (Photo by John Lander)

And yet possess weapons at the end of the season, before storing for the year, as it would be higher in a lawn mower zero price change the oil when the grass is still growing autumn.

Cleaning equipment high quality and proper cleaning techniques are the best way to protect your investment and maintain.

Start with the barrel of the gun, and work your way to action and values.

Modern bolt guns

Guns modern bolts, both the rimfire and center must always be purified from the chamber mouth.

A piece of rod length and diameter correct cleaning use. The screw gun, and inserting a guide rod to center the cleaning rod into the bore. Insert a swab of the mouth, how to affect it in the course of the earth to damage the crown of the port accuracy.

In order to clean the hole of the gun, a swab soaked in a bore of the product quality cleaning and passes through the canyon. Then soak a cotton patch or two, and run through the barrel with the wave Patch. Finally, until a plurality of dry spots run clean through the hole.

It is recommended that to prevent sprayed with a lubricant light patch rust, especially at the end of the season. Use can damage the hole only bronze brushes hole than steel brushes.

jags patch should brass or plastic and a cleaning cloth soft cotton should be the right size for the class.

Beware of generic cleaning kits with cheap metal cleaning rods that are screwed together. When portions of the cleaning pin are not accurately aligned, it is sharp edges, where the sections are bolted together. Over time, these sharp edges (barrel ground) spoliation shaving, roll the balls on what affect the accuracy.

Diameter Tech, Inc., Quakertown, Pennsylvania, in business since 1997, manufactures a complete range of cleaning products gun. Phone (267) 347-4436 for customer service or visit the website: www.boretech.com .

Since many centerfire rifles subject groups derive their good plan for deer season with the load in the eyes of his rifle is to hunt and then the gun barrels hole wipe "cold and dirty." Let the gun cool air temperature, and then a shot fouling to fire.

When the kite shows this season, his gun ready for maximum accuracy.

shotguns

Hunting rifles are easy to clean, especially side by side or above and below shotguns, popular among hunters dove and quail. In fact, these Weapons, which open with easy access to the barrels have.

However, shotguns, popular with waterfowl hunters due to their reliability under extreme conditions can be easily and removed for cleaning. The Remington 870 is one of the most popular shotguns of duck and goose, because there are few moving parts and the gun can be removed in seconds.

If the powder gun, the amount of contamination is important often product burns cleanly shotgun barrels.

The first step consists of a swab with a solvent to give the immersion and a good cleaning gun. Then run to clean with a cotton swab or patch through the opening.

Hyssop its range of foam pads, manufactured by Super Brush LLC, they are ideal for maintaining the shotgun. Washable and reusable, sold Stamps in packages of three, 12 and 20 gauge.

Simple screw in a cleaning rod with a 5/16 - more than 27 are, fine adjustment of hard, economic, narrow bores for the cleaning and with solvents or oils can be used.

The product range includes popular weapon foam pads and a gun .22 caliber .45, which is screwed into the cleaning rods in the standard US wire 8/32.

hard to reach places in the actions of firearms for cleaning firearms test their consulting, foam pads, the 9-1 package come in three ways.

The buffers are lint-free and reusable. Visit his website at: www.swab-its.com .

A firearm away with good maintenance last a lifetime and you can go as a family heirloom.

1Art-Lander-Jr.

Art Lander Jr. is foreign editor for NKyTribune and KyForward. He is native man from Kentucky, he completed Western Kentucky University and a long life hunter, fisherman, avid gardener and nature. He worked as a columnist, magazine - Journalist and author, and is a former editor of the editor of the annual journal of Kentucky Afield hunting guides Kentucky and Kentucky Hunting Guide Dock capturing and co-author of Kentucky outside Afield newspaper column.

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