smelly gun...
4 things that smell better than gunpowder in the morning and that' s bacon and eggs,coffee and hoppes #9
06-19-2003, 10:59 PM
#6
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Saskatchewan Canada
Posts: 6,921
RE: smelly gun...
Here is my take on the gun oil or protectant and it giving you away. If they smell your gun oil, they already smelt you
! While we all try and eliminate our scent and more importantly its impact on the game we chase, their is no way to be 100% scent free.
I do however use a drilube formula for my action, which doesn' t smell or leave the oil film. I can' t recall the name brand but remmington makes one as well. However you can' t use this on your gun as a protectant.
! While we all try and eliminate our scent and more importantly its impact on the game we chase, their is no way to be 100% scent free. I do however use a drilube formula for my action, which doesn' t smell or leave the oil film. I can' t recall the name brand but remmington makes one as well. However you can' t use this on your gun as a protectant.
06-20-2003, 06:34 AM
#7
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Newport Maine USA
Posts: 389
RE: smelly gun...
I have found that using military gun cleaner called rifle bore cleaner - MIL-C-372B & AM 2 6850-224-6656 made by Seaboard Labs Inc. to work about the same as Hoppes with almost no smell.It should be available to you at military surplus stores in your area.When deer season rolls around I clean my gun with it and then rub the outside of the gun down with no-scent spray,then I dry patch the bore and use a mixture of cedar and spruce oil on several patches to cover any solvent smell,I also rub the outside with these oils also.After season I resume the gun oil and hopefully have to clean it from being fired 
Being " scent proof" is impossible to attain as we all breathe on a regular basis but,lowering your foreign scent out-put down as low as possible will help when winds are swirling or changing directions every few minutes and scents like human/sweaty leather/gun solvent/and certain food smells like garlic and onion are the most out of place in the deer woods.Like everything else lowering your scent is another tool to use to run a better chance of seeing a buck before he sees you.
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Being " scent proof" is impossible to attain as we all breathe on a regular basis but,lowering your foreign scent out-put down as low as possible will help when winds are swirling or changing directions every few minutes and scents like human/sweaty leather/gun solvent/and certain food smells like garlic and onion are the most out of place in the deer woods.Like everything else lowering your scent is another tool to use to run a better chance of seeing a buck before he sees you.woods
06-21-2003, 07:21 PM
#9
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: the woods of NJ.
Posts: 5,643
RE: smelly gun...
Are you shooting that many deer that you have to clean your gun during the season? I clean my gun before the season opens, make sure it' s still sighted in, run a bore snake through it and it doesn' t see hoppe' s no9 till after the season. I think the smell of gun powder is less alarming than the smell of oil. Though I do have 2 different shotguns and usually alternate between them depending upon the cover I' m hunting.
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