I finally got my gun home after the long 10 day hold :lol. I went out and purchased this gun cleaning kit http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=4939699 I also have a bottle of Hoppes and also a spay called break something :scratch. I know how to field stip it but am a bit confused and how to actually go about cleaning it. I Also have a few swabs i bought to wipe it down.

Break Free aka CLP works good. Get Q-Tip, lots of Q-tips a plastic brush like an M-16 brush. Bore snakes are nice also. When your Q-tips come clean of carbon, your weapon is clean. Great choice by the way :wink:

I asked a buddy of mine and this is what he told me:

All you are really going to need in that kit is whatever wire brush fits firmly in the barrel, the plastic peice to pull the swob through with and the handle thingy to use them with.

Take the Hoppes, and what you can do it just dip the wire bush in it...this will apply it liberaly, so make sure to do it over a towel or something. Thats another thing you should get....steel a couple small towles from the wife, preferably one terry-cloth and one micro-fiber. Dedicate these to gun cleaning. use the terry cloth to wipe down anythign that is dirty and to soak up any excess Hoppes or Break-Free. Then you can use the Micro-fiber to give the gun its final wipe down before you put it away.

So anyway...Hoppes down the barrel first with the wire brush. Swob it to get rid of excess Hoppes. Spray some break free onto another set of patches, swob the barrel with it. Take a look down the barrel, make sure it looks nice and shiney...make sure the barrel looks like a mirror in there. If it doesn't you either have too much Break Free in there, or it is still dirty. If still dirty, just run the wire brush through a few more times (dont need extra Hoppes for this unless it is really damn dirty still). Then swob it dry. You don't want to leave too much Break-Free behind, just a little film to protech it from rusting. Repeat basicaly the same process on the rest of the gun (i.e. frame and slide). It helps to also have something like a toothbrush to help get the hard to reach places....just make sure you dry off as much of the Hoppes as you can. leaving it pooled up anywhere on the gun can be corrosive to it.

Break Free aka CLP works good. Get Q-Tip, lots of Q-tips a plastic brush like an M-16 brush. Bore snakes are nice also. When your Q-tips come clean of carbon, your weapon is clean. Great choice by the way :wink:

Thanx :cheers

There was a lot of useful advice on cleaning posted in my thread for my XDm. It's been really helpful:

http://www.gixxer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=222261

O6 Gixxer,

I have found that Hoppe's #9 solvent is good for cleaning the slide, FP and extractor channels, etc, (smells great too) but a good bore cleaner like Shooter's Choice will make your chore of gun cleaning much easier. For lubes I like MiliTec 1, TW-25b (http://www.mil-comm.com/ ) and Tetra (hard to find) and Rem-Oil is an OK light ( and I mean, VERY light) lube for actions and as a rinsing agent.

CLP's (Cleaner Lubricant Preservative) like Break-Free brand are usually antiquated formulas that seperate, run, disperse, etc and really offer little in the area of lube and corrosion inhibitor. Old fashioned stuff,....It's cheap, but that's it.

HTH, DH