tomorrow I'll be taking this thing out on the range and before I do that I want
to get this thing all cleaned up I don't ever want to fire a gun without having
made sure that you know the chamber the barrel it's all free of any garbage that
might be in there anything that might have picked up from the factory little
bits of metal sometimes just the oil itself or cosmoline or something can
create a high-pressure system where a gun can actually burst from what I've
heard anyway and I also want to make sure that everything is lubricated
correctly so that it's running really smoothly tomorrow and I can give it a
good review I'm going to start by scrubbing out the bore with a little bit
of Hoppy's number nine and I keep it in these jars or jelly jars just because
they tend to have a better seal than the original jars they come in once you've
opened one of those they tend not to hold their fluids anymore so I'm just
gonna use a bore brush and this is one of the floating kind so as it's going
down the bore it can spin with the the rifling inside there you really don't
want to use one that is one of the fixed brushes that just pushes straight
through you want one that can kind of spin to match what's going on in the
barrel I'm gonna run a patch down here with some more of that Hoppy's number
nine look at that I'm guessing this has been fired at the factory once at least
but I'm seeing some tiny little metal fragments in there so it's just nice to
start getting this thing cleaned out a bit on these patches how like to
alternate a wet one and a dry one okay so things are coming out pretty clean
here just to make sure that I have all the fouling and any debris from the
factory worked out of the rifling go ahead and scrub this through a couple
more times got a little bit more powder residue but it's looking pretty good
it's actually looking pretty clean now I'm going to run a patch with some
Hoppe's number nine through the cylinders so I've picked up a little
powder residue or whatever else junk may be in there and now we'll just get the
solvent out with a clean one so what about points of lubrication it looks
like this has come pretty well lubed from the factory there's actually a
pretty good sheen of oil across all the surfaces and I can see where there's
some buildup in some of these little mechanical moving areas but just to be
sure I'm going to go ahead and oil some of the the main points that I want
anything that has high wear anything that moves you want to oil so I'm gonna
start here with the cylinder I'm gonna put a little oil on this rod
let that work in and the oil that I applied there should run all the way
down through to here it's a pretty penetrating oil so it should move around
pretty good now we have some other moving parts right down in here just put
a drop of oil on that put a drop on the cylinder release button kind of down in
that crack now I'll work in as I move this around I'll pull the hammer back
drop a little oil down into where that I know that pin is and I'm gonna go ahead
and put some in here at the trigger hinge down in there that's feeling
pretty good and the last thing I'm gonna do is I'm going to use some of the
excess oil that kind of spilled out from the the oil drops that I placed on here
I'm gonna grab up some of that with one of these patches and how I just put a
little extra on here - it's like a drop or so on the patch and then just go over
the entire gun getting a nice light coat of oil over all the metal surfaces
there's actually a really good reason for putting a light sheen of oil all
over the gun any of the the blued metal parts any especially any place where the
blue is wearing off you want just the littlest bit of oil covering all of that
because even though this this bluing is there is kind of a rust preventative it
doesn't always do the job I've seen a rifle that a solvent had been applied to
it to clean it up and it turned out that it was one that destroys oil is like I
guess I'd had mineral spirits or acetone I don't know what was in it but
afterward that gun was left to sit outside on a humid day and when the
temperature dropped water condensed all over it and within an hour it was quite
rusted so that's a good little word of warning there if you want to keep your
guns looking good keep them oiled just a little bit and actually after
coding all the surfaces here with oil I'm gonna go back over with a clean
patch and just take off some of it because this might be a little bit
excessive so I'll just take a clean dry one here and start removing some of the
oil on the outside the very last thing I'm going to do is I'm going to run just
a little bit of oil down the barrel
and in the cylinder chambers just like what I did with the outside of the gun I
don't want there to be a thick coating of oil inside the barrel here and I
don't want there to be anything in the the chambers inside the cylinder so I'm
going to run a dry patch through and that's not going to get rid of the oil
in there it's just going to reduce it to a very very thin coating over everything
and with that this should be ready to rock everything's feeling pretty good
I'll see you out on the range
you