One in three Americans owns a firearm, and they need their guns to perform flawlessly when called upon. The moving parts on firearms must be cleaned and lubricated to ensure top performance and long life. It’s important to perform regular maintenance on your firearms to improve their reliability and protect them whether in use or in storage.
Firearm owners typically fall into at least one of three categories.
- Hunters typically own shotguns to hunt waterfowl or upland birds and rifles to hunt larger game.
- Collectors and Sport Shooters own diverse types of firearms for recreational shooting, including shotguns, rifles and handguns.
- Firearms Professionals, including military, law enforcement, gunsmiths and firearm safety instructors, work with diverse types of firearms as part of their job.
Nothing ruins a hunting trip or day at the shooting range quicker than a malfunctioning firearm. Firearms are often stored for extended periods and then subjected to field use in all sorts of environmental conditions. Opportunities to clean and maintain your guns while on a remote hunting trip are rare.
The best solution is to clean and protect your firearm after every use, to make sure it’s ready to go the next time you need it.
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Clean, lubricate and protect
AMSOIL Synthetic Firearm Lubricant and Protectant guards against damaging corrosion better than a leading competitor’s product. It lubricates to prevent blockage, jams and wear, to extend gun life and help keep firearms working properly for generations.
- Outstanding performance in both hot and cold temperatures
- Lubricates and protects firearms to prevent blockage, jams and wear and help extend product life.
- Specifically formulated to provide superior performance in firearms
AMSOIL Firearm Cleaner and Protectant is an aerosol cleaner and protectant that penetrates deep into hard-to-reach components, effectively cleaning residue from all surfaces and protecting guns for safe long-term storage.
- Penetrates deep into hard-to-reach components
- Cleans fouling and powder residue from all firearm surfaces, reducing misfires and increasing reliability
- Protects guns against corrosion for safe storage and preserving performance, reliability and value
Applications
AMSOIL firearm products provide premium protection and performance in rifles, handguns and shotguns, and are safe to use on all metals, woods, composites and rubbers.
Video transcript: AMSOIL: How to Clean Your Shotgun
After a beautiful day of bird hunting with the pup, one of the important things to do is gun maintenance. You know, you can go out, shoot a couple boxes of shells. There’s a lot of spent powder in the barrel and the receiver. You need to get that stuff out of there so the next time you load some shells in and a bird gets up in front of you, you don’t go “click.” So what we want to do, I’m going to demonstrate here, take this gun apart, clean it up real good so the next time we go out she’s ready to go.
So we’ll spray the rag down here, start cleaning out the barrel. This is the kind of stuff that you’re getting out of the barrel, and this stuff is going to be found in your receiver too. This is the stuff that’s going to gum it up and slow it down. So after we put a nice pass through there with some solvent, we’re going to come back through with a copper brush, spray that with a little bit of solvent as well.
You’re going to run that brush through the barrel a few times. I’m going to go after it again with a little more solvent just to make sure that you get the barrel nice and clean. Typically run one last one through to remove any of the solvent that was in there before we go back after it with some lubrication. Look at the rag.
It’s pretty white. So now we’ve got a good clean barrel. We need to go after the receiver of this thing. So what I’m going to do is just take some of that same cleaner, wipe it on another clean rag.
In this gun, it’s a little harder to take the bolt out without pulling a few pins out, so we just kind of go after it. You can move the bolt back and forth, exposing different parts of the receiver. Make sure that you get that thing nice and clean. After we use our patch with solvent on the inside of the receiver to clean it out, we’re going to go back with a clean, dry one, try to wipe some of that residual solvent back out.
See if there’s any — see if there’s any residual powder left behind. As you can start seeing, a clean white rag goes in; a clean white rag comes out. The gun’s pretty clean. This gun needs to be lubricated now, so what we want to do is we want to make sure that we provide a nice thin film inside the receiver so you get a good smooth action, pull shells and eject shells really good.
And then we’re going to wipe the gun down, get all the dirt out of it from when it’s been out in the field. So, since we cleaned the barrel out, we’re going to want to go back in and give it a little bit of corrosion protection, and that’s where this lube is going to come into play. I’m going to do the same thing with the receiver now, put a little bit of this lubricant on a clean rag, just a thin film, give it a little bit of protection from sliding components back and forth as you’re using it and also to give it that layer of corrosion protection. Go back for a clean rag, a little bit more oil on there and just give a good clean wipe down to the exterior of the gun.
There we have it: a good clean gun, nice smooth action.
This article is part of our AMSOIL Aerosols and Car Care guide. See every article in the guide.
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David Hilgendorf is an AMSOIL Technical Writer who develops content for automotive, powersports and industrial audiences. His work includes technical data sheets, magazine articles, blog posts, white papers, product literature and application guidance. Hilgendorf works with engineers, laboratory personnel and technical specialists to communicate lubricant testing, product performance, maintenance practices, metalworking fluids, grease, motorcycles, marine equipment and industrial reliability.
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