I like to clean guns...

[Larryjk]

I wouldn't exactly say I love cleaning guns but I feel I need a clean barrel for especially my rifles to perform. I shoot groups from a clean barrel when working up loads and feel the same loads will shoot where I am aiming when fired from a clean barrel. I am also an advocate of "moly'" treated barrels and bullets. Everything below 25 caliber gets the"moly" treatment. I don't put brushes through the barrels but use tight patches with ammonia based cleaners. The last thing I put through the barrel is a patch or two with Kroil, and then a dry patch.
Living with a 17 Remington taught me these principles after a conversation with Walt Berger of Berger bullets.

[PJgunner]

Larry. You might want to be careful with that moly stuff. Gun writer Rick jamison did some experimentation with it and later when he removed the moly coating from his barrel, it was badly corroded under that moly. Apparently is somehow allowed moisture to creep under the coating and caused the corrosion.
I know Rick wasn't very popular after he sued Winchester because of his paptents on the short mag rounds but he really did know his stuff when it came to the technical side of guns and shooting.
Paul B.

[Montana Cowboy]

My gun's are cleaned after every use. I've worked hard for the money to buy them just like my car and truck I take good care of them. When I need to depend on them I don't want any malfunctions. Sure I'm like everybody else I'd rather do something else but I know what it is like to work for the money to buy anything and so I take care of what I own. My wife likes the smell of Hoppe's so she likes to come out and visit while I'm cleaning my gun. MC