#GunCleaning

Welcome back to another edition of Concealed Carry Corner. Last week, we talked about the proper time to carry certain guns. If you happened to miss that article, be sure to click the link here to check it out. This week, I want to take a look at some of the top items to clean regularly when you're carrying a concealed handgun. Some will be obvious, while others get neglected fairly regularly.

Welcome everyone to the TFB Armorer's Bench! I recently spotted a Sten Mk2 kit for a decent price and couldn't resist picking it up. These kits used to be available for a couple hundred bucks, but lately they've shot up in price as they've become less and less common. People buy these because they're simple to bring back to life in semi-auto form with some new parts and a little know-how. It seemed like a fun project. Mine arrived soaked in thick cosmoline in a plastic bag, which turned out to be the perfect test case for the RCBS Ultrasonic Cleaner 2.

Keeping your AR-15 clean is essential for reliability when you need it most. A properly maintained rifle will function flawlessly and prevent premature wear on critical components. While there are different cleaning philosophies out there, this guide will provide you with a proven approach that works for both casual shooters and serious enthusiasts.

In the past, I have written a few different articles about how to maintain your firearm as well as your equipment. I have been traveling around various states these last few weeks and have been carrying in the South Carolina heat. During my time down there, I realized just how much you can sweat when the summer heat is in full effect. This amount of heat can cause you to sweat an impressive amount which ultimately finds its way into your holster and onto your gun. Over time, the sweat will find any piece of uncoated metal as well as start to work the coating away. It’s important to maintain your summer carry gun so let’s take a look at a few different options to consider.

It’s not often that you have to open up the bolt of your Remington 700 rifle to clean it but when you do you’ll want to make sure you’re not marring it up in the process. Fix-It Sticks is well known for making some very handy and compact tools that can be packed up and stowed away in any range pack for quick access either at home, on the gun bench or in the field when they’re needed. Fix-It Sticks just dropped their new Remington 700 Bolt Opener Tool that makes opening/disassembling a Remington 700 bolt quick and easy giving you quick access to the bolt body and firing pin.

While sometimes the process of cleaning our guns can be quite cathartic, at other times it can be a chore. Especially if you’re an armourer cleaning dozens of guns at a time regularly. Infante, a New Jersey-based company that specialises in ultrasonic firearms cleaning, explains their technology.

Clairvoyance Solutions has just introduced its flagship product, a weapon-mounted light cleaning solution that works in just a couple seconds without damaging your weapon-mounted light. As an added bonus, the cleaning solution is made from 100% safe chemicals for the skin and is non-toxic.

I’ve said it many times before, but for me, cleaning guns went from being a peaceful Sunday afternoon to being an absolute chore in short order. Real Avid has been making great gun cleaning tools and accessories for some time now and has recently come out with their Foul-Out Gunk Blaster for cleaning and degreasing your firearm actions.

If you’re like me you like to keep your firearms in tip-top shape and clean as a whistle. Although I loathe cleaning my firearms and view it as more of a chore rather than something actually enjoyable, I do recognize the need to keep all of your firearms well oiled and free from carbon buildup and other debris – especially your daily carry a gun. For Glock users, this chore has just been simplified with the introduction of the new Glock Professional cleaning kit from Otis. But what makes it different than your standard cleaning kit?

Real Avid have added a new bore cleaning foam to their line of gun cleaning products, alongside their ‘Foul-Out Gun Blaster’ and Gun-Max Gun Oil. Coming in 12oz cans with a flip nozzle, Bore-Max is designed to be fast acting on copper and carbon deposits inside your barrel.

Despite launching numerous new products at the SHOT Show 2020, Strike Industries has branched out yet again by releasing a new gun cleaning mat, aptly named the “Gunmat”, which features incorporated trays for keeping small gun parts from rolling away.  Strike Industries’ new mat is similar to other popular designs in that the mat is padded, but deviates from them with the multiple molded trays for keeping smaller parts where you want them, or by keeping parts separated if working on several guns at once.

The SIG Sauer P-Series is one of the most iconic handgun designs created in the last 50 years in my eyes. It was also one of the easier systems to field strip and clean which a number of different handguns also use in today’s market. Once you know how to disassemble the gun, it becomes easy with practice. Here are the disassembly steps.

I think most people will agree with me that the absolute worst part of owning and using firearms is the cleaning part. That is the subject of Today’s Photo. Gun cleaning comes with gun ownership, there’s no other way.

For 2018, Birchwood Casey will be introducing a number of new cleaning products for maintaining your firearms. Here is a quick look at some of them that will be in the new catalog.

Do you think your M14 could pass this inspection? The precision and movements are almost robotic in nature.