Gun Cleaning products from KG Industries
by Vince Bottomley
vigorously from chamber to muzzle but don’t let the patch come out. Even though you have started with a clean barrel, the patch will come out black. Now clean the bore in the normal way and your bore will recover that mirror finish and shoot like it did when it was new!
Even if your bore is blackened and starting to fire- crack, a good workout with Bore Polish will rejuvenate it. OK, if your barrel has had it, nothing will provide a permanent cure but it will reduce the tendency to copper-up.
KG 3 Solvent & Degreaser This large aerosol should be in everyone’s cleaning box. It smells like the stuff you can buy in any motorists store as ‘carburettor cleaner’. I use loads of it in the workshop for degreasing parts before gluing, painting etc. or simply as a general cleaner. It removes Devcon from metal parts after bedding and it’s ideal for flushing out bolts and any other gun bits that suffer from a build-up of crud. Use it to clean the solvent off your bore-cleaning brushes. I even use it to clean my GSG MP5 rimfire where it gets clogged around the chamber-mouth. The KG 3 is no better or worse than the motorists version but it costs a bit more so I leave you to make your own mind up on that one!
KG 4 Gun Oil
Although the instructions recommend using KG 4 to oil the bore after cleaning, I don’t routinely oil my guns - I never put any oil in the bore. If you store your
rifles in a clean dry environment there’s no need. I put ‘em away clean and dry and shoot them without any further treatment save for a clean dry patch before the first round, as a precaution – you never know what’s crawled in there!
Are there any occasions where we need to oil our rifles? Maybe if you are a stalker and your rifle gets left in a damp atmosphere for an indeterminate length of time, you might want to oil the bore – but you must thoroughly clean out the oil before shooting. This would be like cleaning your rifle twice! Maybe pistols and lever-actions, having more moving parts need a bit of lube? Triggers shouldn’t be oiled and neither should bolts. OK – always grease your bolt (a trace behind the lugs and on the camming-point) before use but that’s a different matter.
KG Industries have attempted to offer a complete range of cleaning and maintenance products for the shooter and they have done a pretty good job. We haven’t looked at their whole range of products by any means but you can, by visiting
www.kgcoatings.com. Follow the instructions on the bottles and you won’t go far wrong in keeping your rifles clean.
Open Season Ltd. of Oxford are the UK importers
www.openseasonltd.com E-mail Rupert@
openseasonltd.com for the address of your nearest stockist.
The full range of KG cleaning and lubricating products.
KG Product Photographs by Steve Thornton
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