Hoppe's Gun Medic

[Podmonkey]

Anybody ever see/use/hear about this stuff?
It marketed as a quick fix for stoppages for the range/competition/training.

 

[libertysnake]

Anybody ever see/use/hear about this stuff?
It marketed as a quick fix for stoppages for the range/competition/training.
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Can't say I have. I'm a little leary of using a lot of the hoppe's stuff at home since my gun room isn't huge and I don't want to fume myself out of it each time I'm cleaning. I generally stick to Mpro7's gun cleaner, since it's not water based and you can buy it in bulk (by the gallon.) Highly suggest it for just a regular cleaning followed by an oiling, and the smell is very tolerable.

 

[kev74]

I'm guessing you'll get the same results if you dusche it out with any spray lube, even good old WD-40.

 

[Acer-m14]

whats wrong with the hoppe's smell .. i like it and know of a few female shooter that do too .. i posted hoppe's FB they need to make a after shave too .. they got a big kick over it ..

 

[Bananabandit]

whats wrong with the hoppe's smell .. i like it and know of a few female shooter that do too .. i posted hoppe's FB they need to make a after shave too .. they got a big kick over it ..

I love it too. As long as the aftershave was toned down a bit...id buy it!

 

[libertysnake]

whats wrong with the hoppe's smell .. i like it and know of a few female shooter that do too .. i posted hoppe's FB they need to make a after shave too .. they got a big kick over it ..

I didn't realize people were using Hoppe's as cologne now.

 

[S&W Fan]

I didn't realize people were using Hoppe's as cologne now.

Now? Hell, I’ve been using hoppe’s as cologne for 40 years.

 

[Marine Cpl]

Why not just use Mobil One 5w20 or 30 and be done with it? It's cheaper and holds up better at extreme temperatures anyway than all these expensive snake oils.

 

[libertysnake]

Now? Hell, I’ve been using hoppe’s as cologne for 40 years.

How successful was it? Should we change the name from Hoppe’s to “Tigersex” or something?

 

[kev74]

How successful was it? Should we change the name from Hoppe’s to “Tigersex” or something?

60% of the time it works every time.

 

[MikeyCNY]

I can't speak for this stuff, but I've mainly switched my cleaning/lubrication to Strike Industries AntiVenom XPLC.. I can't stand the smell of Hoppes, but the AntiVenom has a nice peanut-like aroma. Don't see many people talking about it though.

 

[Podmonkey]

Why not just use Mobil One 5w20 or 30 and be done with it? It's cheaper and holds up better at extreme temperatures anyway than all these expensive snake oils.

I do use Mobil 1 high temp bearing grease in small amounts on the wear surfaces of my firearms.
As for the gun medic stuff I'm just curious as to the efficacy of combining a solvent of some kind with a lubricant. And also I do not belive that the solvent used here is the No. 9 stuff as the bottle claims its a non toxic "bio formula" which No. 9 is not.
Regardless a substance that I can spritz under pressure into tge nooks and crannies of my AR as a quick remedy for cycling woes is appealing to me. Nit yhat my AR has issues in that regard. The opposite in fact, I have been quite impressed with its dependability. But I'm always curious about new products.

 

[Mosinitis]

Do you really need to buy exotic sprays to get your AR to function? CLP is all that one needs. If you don't have time to clean your AR as you should, just put a few drops of CLP into 4 visible holes in bolt & carrier and cycle the charging handle a few times.

 

[Darth]

I do use Mobil 1 high temp bearing grease in small amounts on the wear surfaces of my firearms.
As for the gun medic stuff I'm just curious as to the efficacy of combining a solvent of some kind with a lubricant. And also I do not belive that the solvent used here is the No. 9 stuff as the bottle claims its a non toxic "bio formula" which No. 9 is not.
Regardless a substance that I can spritz under pressure into tge nooks and crannies of my AR as a quick remedy for cycling woes is appealing to me. Nit yhat my AR has issues in that regard. The opposite in fact, I have been quite impressed with its dependability. But I'm always curious about new products.

Aren't nearly all lubricants also solvents? Hence they are "CLPs?"

I use Ballistol for everything.

 

[Mosinitis]

I buy a gallon of Break-free CLP every 4-5 years.

 

[Podmonkey]

Aren't nearly all lubricants also solvents? Hence they are "CLPs?"

I use Ballistol for everything.

Motor oil isn't. There are detergents in it but its not quitevthe same.

 

[Podmonkey]

Do you really need to buy exotic sprays to get your AR to function? CLP is all that one needs. If you don't have time to clean your AR as you should, just put a few drops of CLP into 4 visible holes in bolt & carrier and cycle the charging handle a few times.

It didn't seem "exotic" to me. I'll be back in there for something or other, I'll check the price of it. Love Fleet Farm.
Also after 1k+ rounds there gets to be a fair amount of carbony, oily gunk in the gun, I just thought it might be convenient to have a product that knocks some of that down whike leaving an oil film in the same squirt. If that could really work that is. Not sure howba solvent can not strip the oil off when its all in the same bottle.

 

[Marine Cpl]

Motor oil isn't. There are detergents in it but its not quitevthe same.

It cleans the carbon off my guns. In fact, it prevents the carbon from sticking to the metal. Have you ever had to scrape carbon off of a bolt and bolt carrier? I've never had to do that since using motor oil.

 

[Mosinitis]

It didn't seem "exotic" to me. I'll be back in there for something or other, I'll check the price of it. Love Fleet Farm.
Also after 1k+ rounds there gets to be a fair amount of carbony, oily gunk in the gun, I just thought it might be convenient to have a product that knocks some of that down whike leaving an oil film in the same squirt. If that could really work that is. Not sure howba solvent can not strip the oil off when its all in the same bottle.

I am old school. I clean the rifle after every weekend of shooting. It's time consuming so I do it over several days. AR's can be shot for a long time without cleaning, but reliability factor goes down. A change in temperature or humidity and you are screwed. I don't see the benefit of pushing the envelope.

 

[Marine Cpl]

I would never fire that many rounds between a cleaning. Never. As Mosinitus said, why sacrifice reliability? Carbon makes moving parts bigger.

 

[Glenn B]

I didn't realize people were using Hoppe's as cologne now.

You must be very young not to have known about eau de Hoppe's No. 9.

 

[nortatoga]

And with cold weather coming!

We are planning another Winterseed at my club, and the last one this past winter some shooters had issues with there 10/22' not cycling! Could very well have been oil gumming up? So this time around mine will be cleaned and oiled with this Zero Wt. Mobil One for sure!

 

[Podmonkey]

It cleans the carbon off my guns. In fact, it prevents the carbon from sticking to the metal. Have you ever had to scrape carbon off of a bolt and bolt carrier? I've never had to do that since using motor oil.

I just wipe every thing down with patches/rags soaked in Hoppe's #9. Then I re-oil, re-grease.

Also we need to tak into account shooting schedules. My gun may get dirtier and more caked up than some folks as I'll go through 1k rounds a session per month.
If I'm home that month.
Somone that shoots a box every other month might not need to clean their gun hardly ever.

 

[Marine Cpl]

I clean after every outing. The military made me OCD like that.

 

[Podmonkey]

I clean after every outing. The military made me OCD like that.

Me too, but I do nothing beyond maybe squirting a little CLP in the action during a session, which as I have noted often consists of 1k strings, portions of which are done rapid fire. My gun gets pretty sludgy towards the end of the day.

 

[Cleck]

Also not a fan of various name brand gun oils, I also use Mobil 1 for everything. If it's good enough to keep my engine from grenading, then it's good enough for my gun.

Speaking of cleaning - I cleaned before I went hunting this weekend and got something. I'm superstitious, so I'll be repeating the new process this weekend as well

 

[RomanRider]

I learned a lesson about cleaning my gun on the coffee table in the living room, and about not promptly replacing the cap on the Hoppe's #9 bottle. One sloppy move and I knocked the bottle over dripping some onto the carpet. So now we have Hoppe's #9 aromatherapy in the living room. Working on various solutions/cleaning/cover up but it's persistent. Back to cleaning on one of my work benches...

 

[Exonautic]

My gun cleaning is very erratic. The only thing I ever got OCD about cleaning is my mosin cause of the corrosive ammo. My ars will get a thorough cleaning of the bolt after an outing but the barrel could very well be left alone for 2 or 3 outings. My bolt action on the other hand, im meticulous about cleaning the barrel, the bolt will get a quick lubejob.
On to the point of gun medic. If you clean the important parts of your particular gun, unless you put a metric fuckton of rounds downrange, i don't see anything ever gumming up mid range day unless you drop it into some mud or dirt.

 

[FrankenCub]

I haven't used Hoppes since my Ithaca 37 jammed up one winter when I took a shot at a doe, racked through the whole tube before the last fired. When I got home and the temp came up the 37 functioned fine. It might have been just a fluke but the gun was clean and with bottom eject snow can't get in it. I haven't used the stuff since. Since someone brought up using Mobile 1 a long time ago I've used it on everything and noticed my guns do indeed stay cleaner. No problems cleaning crud or carbon off anything.
It's available everywhere and cheap compared to many gun cleaning/lube products and goes a long way.

 

[Podmonkey]

I haven't used Hoppes since my Ithaca 37 jammed up one winter when I took a shot at a doe, racked through the whole tube before the last fired. When I got home and the temp came up the 37 functioned fine. It might have been just a fluke but the gun was clean and with bottom eject snow can't get in it. I haven't used the stuff since. Since someone brought up using Mobile 1 a long time ago I've used it on everything and noticed my guns do indeed stay cleaner. No problems cleaning crud or carbon off anything.
It's available everywhere and cheap compared to many gun cleaning/lube products and goes a long way.

I fail to see how that would be the Hoppe's fault. Did you re lube it after you used it? Hoppes is a cleaning solvent, ot strips oil and grease, it doesn't lubricate or offer corrosion protection.