Proper way to clean my shotgun?
January 27th, 2010 by eranio
I have a benelli supernova tactical shotgun which I have taken to the range and fired maybe 30 rounds through or so (buckshot and slugs). I purchased a remington universal cleaning kit, I’m just curious what are the steps to clean my gun?
Of course I know how to take off the barrel and such.
I just don’t know the order of things to do, when do I use the bore cleaning solvent, the patches, the bronze brush, etc.?
Do I need to worry about scratching anything? I would assume steel is harder than bronze… but I want to make sure.
Does the order even really matter? Or should I just use the brush until the big chunks of wad and lead oare gone and then use the patch with solvent to finish the job?
Posted in tactical shotgun
January 27th, 2010 at 7:53 pm
Make sure you are unloaded.. really…unloaded
break down your shotgun
swab bore with patch and solvent… set it aside… and let the solvent work
clean out action and camber… rags , brass tooth brush, old nylon tooth brushes Q tips etc. Get all the carbon and old oil out. If the trigger group is mounted with pins drop it out and oil or grease the contact parts after cleaning. Dont take the trigger group apart…you will probably be able to get to everything without it…plus they are pretty hard to assemble without some skills and tools.
Re-lube moving parts…
Now go after that bore with the bronze bore brush… at least 10 passes.
Swab out with solvent and patch… repeat till patch comes out clean.
Swab bore with light coat of oil
Put your shotgun back together and do a fuction check.
Scratches… not from any cleaning brushes… but if your gun requires screws to be turned get a set of gunsmiths screw drivers… they will save the screw slots. Work on padded surface and use common sense to avoid marring your firearm
January 27th, 2010 at 7:53 pm
ok, first of all, put your bronze brush head onto the cleaning rod and run it through the barrel a couple times to loosen any material that’s stuck to the inside of the barrel, remove the bronze brush and put on the shotgun patch head(it has a long hole in it to fit the patch), take a large patch and fold it in half so it’ll fit into the patch head, then soak the patch in the gun cleaning oil until it is well soaked and place into the barrel and run it through the barrel one or twice, but no more.
them you want to remove the soaked patch and put a dry patch onto the patch head and run it through the barrel, continue to remove and place new patches until the patch comes out of the barrel clean and without any oil, if your planning to store the gun for a long time, pass a oil soaked patch through the barrel again after the cleaning so there is a layer of oil to protect the barrel from rusting and is easier to clean before using the gun again.
but 30 shells isn’t much for a smooth bore shotgun, because there is no rifling for debris to accumulate into, I personally only clean my mossberg 500 at the start of hunting season and afterwards, if you’d be using it often, clean it every 150-300 shells, there’s no specific number here, just do it when convenient.
if you use the bronze brush after the patch, it’ll defeat the purpose of doin the patch because the loosened material is left in the barrel afterwards, the bornze brush usually doesn’t take the material with it, it just loosens.
January 27th, 2010 at 7:53 pm
read the owners manuel & follow the directions for cleaning
January 27th, 2010 at 7:53 pm
Check this article out at Box O Truth on how to clean a shotgun……..
Your first thought might be this guy is joking but this method works excellent…….
http://www.theboxotruth.com/docs/edu9.htm
Also take a look at the rest of the website this stuff is most informative……
http://www.theboxotruth.com/