Cleaning routine.

[mobirdhunter]

Originally Posted by Robin Lewis

I agree! When I was about 8, I remember my dad going out rabbit hunting and when he came home "I got to clean the gun". At that time it was a reason for me to handle a gun and in the process I learned gun safety (muzzle control) as my dad watched, how to maintain any gun and simple appreciation for quality, look and feel. I was taken on my first rabbit hunt when I was 9 (got two) and from then to now I regard game & guns as something special for me to take care to preserve.

Coming home from a hunt and finishing the hunt by cleaning the gun in preparation for the next day, or for storage, is routine for me and is still a pleasure. I too use Hoppes #9; mostly for the aroma and the memories that distinctive smell brings to mind and those are all wonderful memories.

Robin,

I hope you still rabbit hunt. My gateway to hunting was squirrels at age 6. I was my Pop’s “dog” that circled the tree and retrieved them when he brought them down (head shot my biased memory recalls). In the evening Iwould clean his J. C. Higgins .22. Life was good. I still go on at least one squirrel hunt a year just to remember.

[edgarspencer]

Originally Posted by Robin Lewis

I too use Hoppes #9; mostly for the aroma and the memories that distinctive smell brings to mind and those are all wonderful memories.

Me too. I think of the cold winter nights in the unheated tobacco barn where we had a rifle club. Just a woodstove, a couple castaway recliners, half a whiskey barrel for a table. 4 elevated prone benches and a few dedicated dad's with their boys. I believe I smoked a pipe for 45 years, drink only good scotch and still use #9, because my memories of the various aromas is better than the images...................................damn allergies must be playing with my eyeballs

[Big D]

Seems to me that Hoppes, altho it still smells good, is not the same formula I grew up with. Someone said the old stuff had some sort of carcinogenic component to it. Anyone else heard that?

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by John Dallas

Someone said the old stuff had some sort of carcinogenic component to it. Anyone else heard that?

Just in California that I know of...





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[Mills]

It's probably the stuff that makes it smell good

[Double Lab]

I bought a whole case of the old #9 a few years ago. Growing up my dad used nothing but #9 to clean the inside then wipe the outside of all his guns. His guns are still in immaculate condition today. I always said that if they could put the aroma of #9 into a cologne for men.......

[Bindlestiff]

Originally Posted by Daryl Corona

I always said that if they could put the aroma of #9 into a cologne for men.......

You may like this? I had one once but I found it didn't last long

[Kensal Rise]

Here's what the MSDS sheet says is in Hoppe's No. 9. Apparently the toxic nitro-benzene was removed 25 years ago.

[edgarspencer]

Originally Posted by Daryl Corona

I bought a whole case of the old #9 a few years ago.

I did also, Daryl. Allan Swanson had several cases at the Baltimore gun show.

My Hoppes shrine. Maybe I could get Yankee Candle Company to make some for us.

[Double Lab]

Yep, Allan Swanson is where I got them from. Thanks for reminding me. Yankee Candle is not a bad idea but only if they could use a facsimile of the #9 bottle.