How To Clean A Gun With Household Items?

Cleaning a gun without the need for a cleaning kit seems to be a difficult task.

But it is preferably a simple process in a favorable condition and can be also done by using some household items you already have in your home.

During the process of cleaning a gun, the main intention is to make the gun function properly without any difficulties.

Your main intention should not be probably to make it look nice but also to work well as per your expectations.

Clean Gun with Household Items

Cleaning A Gun With Household Items

In some cases, due to the unavailability of a cleaning kit at home or misplacement of the kit (at the time of your need) may make you feel uncomfortable.

But the fact is that it is not so difficult as you think, to remove impurities from a gun without a cleaning kit.

Here are some easy ways and procedures to follow for cleaning a revolver or gun at home with household items.

You can try them out to get great results.

What You Will Need?

Here is the list of materials you’ll need for your gun/pistol cleaning at home:

1- Cleaning cloth or rag; you may also use a paper towel

2- Tool to cut (preferably a pair of scissors of a knife)

3- Ram rod or a thin stick which probably can go down the length of your gun’s barrel

4- Gun oil, regular oil or some silicone

Steps You Need To Follow

Step # 1- First, make sure that the gun is not loaded. Reassemble the gun according to the mechanism of your gun model since each and every gun disassembles in different methods.

You must separate well enough in such a way that you are able to look over the bolt, chamber, barrel, and frame.

Step # 2– Now it’s time for you to look into them and start cleaning the bolt in its whole, chamber and as well as its barrel.

Step # 3- Take a piece of clean cotton cloth. Then with the help of cutting equipment being utilized, cut a few small squares out of the cloth.

These squares of rag are required to be small in such a way to fit correctly into the barrel. Place them aside.

Step # 4- With the leftovers of your tidy cloth, make it moist by dipping a little bit of  on it.

Hold on to the bolt with the damped rag and start wiping out all residues of oil, carbon and foreign objects that come out of it till you obtain a smooth shiny surface from the metal parts.

Step # 5- Be sure about the firing pin positioned at the inner side of the bolt is appointed with additional care and attention. Once it is over, keep it to a side.

Step # 6- Holding on to the portion of the revolver that has both the chamber and the barrel, you are about to clear off all the mess that retained in the barrel, but not into the chamber.

Place a small amount of oil on one of the square rags that you had cut out before and insert it onto the chamber.

Using a rod-like an object drive in the tiny piece of cloth inside and out of front terminal of the barrel; repetition of this process must be continued till all dirt comes out.

Step # 7- Grip onto the chamber along with the barrel parts of your gun. Employ the waste rag left up to clean the interior divisions of the chamber in a similar manner as you cleaned the bolt.

Also, wipe off excess oil, impurities of carbon and residues of foreign matters away from the gun till you get a clear shiny surface in the body of the gun.

Step # 8- Restore your gun, check again to ensure that the gun is unloaded and execute a “functions check” by firing it without bullets to notice if it is accurately assembled.

Following this method of cleaning a gun will be really ever easy than before, and makes you not to worry about a situation without a cleaning kit to clean the gun.

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