What cleaners/lubricants do you use? I typically use a bore cleaner & remington oil but there must be a better way.

Cleaner hoppes 9 sweet 7.62(follow directions!) Lubes breakfree clp Lucas gun oil and I have used 10w30 greases lithium frog lube pretty much anything. Butch's bore shine is good. Kroil mixed with shooters choice mc7 is the go to for really filthy.

Be careful what you use if a gun has been camo dipped. Some cleaner/solvents will take the camo off.

Slip 2000 cleaner for actions and carbon. Hoppes, or any other repeatable bore cleaner, formulated to cut copper, lead, or plastic.....whichever is your barrel issue. Take your CLP and Rem Oil to the burn pit for fire starter, or to spray on your bush hog. Get some Slip 2000, other quality LUBRICANT for your firearm and use that where appropriate. Have grease where appropriate. If you want dry lubricant and rust protection, eezox is hard to beat. Actually, CLP isn’t bad as a preservative, but you’ll need to clean before uses, usually. Mobile 1 and synthetic refrigeration oil are as good as most stuff out there, and ATF cleans well. Lucas, Marvels, whatever. Is not rocket science, but there’s a lot of confusion by the marketing sometimes. CLP and others like it, can’t do anything great. A lubricant that cleans, also carries crud to everywhere it needs to flow as a lubricant. If it flows as a lubricant, and cuts impurities as a cleaner, it doesn’t stay on the metal as a protectant......at least as people try to uses them. Use them in steps and sages, and they do okay.

I use Weapon Shield.

In before someone says Buckeye Blue, which has been unavailable for purchase for years now. Must not have been as good as advertised here after all.

Personally, I prefer Lucas Gun Oil.

Hoppes 9, Shooters Choice copper solvent and Bore Tech Eliminator for cleaning. Mainly just use the Eliminator and let is sit in the barrel for an hour then clean it out with dry patches.

Eezox is the lubricant I like.

Rem oil is crap. Throw it away. Terrible rust preventative and the Teflon component can cause accuracy to degrade. Only way to clean it out is Kroil an JB Paste with elbow grease.

Shooter choice mc#7 for solvent .break free clp for oil.kroil for get fouling out before copper cleaning.also been using gun slick foaming bore cleaner on certain guns I don't want solvent all over the finish

My brother is my favorite gun cleaner. He can break down a semi auto pistol in nothing flat.
If I could just get him to say “Done, drill sergeant.”

CLP and Bore Tech Eliminator about every three years

Pro Shot copper solvent for the bore and Hilco Lube for the rest

Do you mind if I piggy back off this and ask, "What do you all use to clean your rifles with after a hunt so you don't have all the oil smell for deer?"

Lucas Gun Oil

Eezox

I make my own bore cleaner and have been for years cost me less than 20 bucks to make a gallon and works great as a lubricant also

You are an interesting feller. And I mean that sincerely, cause I would never tease a man that makes gun solvent and lubricant by the gallon.

It's easy u want the recipe?

Excellent point! So, how good is the lube? Asking for a friend.

Make it slick as a minnners goober
I'll say this about it I had a good friend that was deployed to the sandbox and asked for a "care package" and he said it's the only thing they found to clean weapons with that wouldn't attract the dust over there they went through a lot of it

Spill the beans!

So yuns don't think I'm crazy....Google Ed's red bore cleaner for yuns that don't Google here is the recipe
1-quart kerosene
1-quart mineral spirits
1-quart acetone
1-quart type III automatic transmission fluid

Won't harm wood stock finishes and cleans a barrel very well and also works as a lubricant when j make it i store in pint or quart Mason jars
DISCLAIMER I don't believe I'd smoke while mixing it up or while using it but if you do please video it

And if you make a batch report back on your findings as to how well you think it works

Ed’s red stinks to high heaven. LOL If you’re gonna go that route just drop the metal in a vat of gas, hit it with a water hose and then an air compressor. Worked on M4s forever.

Slip 2000 cleaner works better on carbon than just about anything I’ve seen. They’ve got different formulations, good lubes, etc. The cleaner is citrus based, so it doesn’t stink up the world, but it needs oil behind it. You can soak an AR bolt or gas shotgun piston in slip 200 for 10min, and 99% of the cooked on carbon will wipe off with a paper towel. ProTec is good, too. There’s a myriad of good bore cleaners. Synthetic refer truck oil is some of the slickest, non smelly, non toxic, cold/hot proof stuff around if you can find some.