Cleaning My Old Army
07-15-2012, 06:31 PM
#12
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 21,193
The only thing I found with WD-40 is ... ever clean a gun and store it with WD-40? Then later you wipe the gun down again. And finally you take it down and there is a "varnish" sticky like substance on the gun. That is the WD-40 and all the dust, lint, dirt, what ever. I never use it in my triggers. I just decided that Water Displacement-40, while its good to get things moving or drive water out of some place, I like a good gun oil.
Before you use the revolver again, take a patch and put isopropyl alcohol on it. Run that in the cylinders and barrel. That removes any gun oil. Also if you want to have fun shooting, get some American Pioneer Powder 3f or Jim Shockey Gold 3f powder. Use that. It cleans with simple water. The dish soap is just an added bonus. Your not hunting with the revolver and so you can shoot all day with the APP 3f and the gun never needs to be broken down.
That is a 2" thick spruce plank that is dried out. I set that up and shot combat style at it. As you can see that 25 grains of APP will have some penetration. I shot 60 rounds one afternoon and never had to break the revolver down for a field cleaning.
Before you use the revolver again, take a patch and put isopropyl alcohol on it. Run that in the cylinders and barrel. That removes any gun oil. Also if you want to have fun shooting, get some American Pioneer Powder 3f or Jim Shockey Gold 3f powder. Use that. It cleans with simple water. The dish soap is just an added bonus. Your not hunting with the revolver and so you can shoot all day with the APP 3f and the gun never needs to be broken down.
That is a 2" thick spruce plank that is dried out. I set that up and shot combat style at it. As you can see that 25 grains of APP will have some penetration. I shot 60 rounds one afternoon and never had to break the revolver down for a field cleaning.
