Cleaning inside the house.

[oomcurt]

Well....last weekend I took my life in my hands and cleaned my rifle in the kitchen...wasn't 1/8th as bad as I thought it might be...even the wife didn't object. Now, I either have a damm good wife or her smeller is off. At any rate, sure is better than doing it out in the cold.

 

[No Deer]

Hmmm....why would she object? It doesn't smell bad. I have been cleaning my guns in the kitchen for years. Guess I got a good wife too :redthumb:

 

[soggy]

:: Boy does that ever bring back old memories; I remember the first time that I cleaned a BP rifle in the basement. I can still hear the wife yelling from upstairs............" WHAT THE H##L IS THAT? "
That was years ago, shes grown acustomed to that smell along with others ,such as boiling horns, tanning deer hides etc. I think I could field dress a skunk down there now and she wouldn't question it (well maybe not that) but she has adapted. :crackup:
Soggy

 

[jtmattison]

I clean in the house a lot. Never heard a gripe from my wife.
My son once asked if I had passed gas but toddlers alway's say what they think.


Huntin

 

[roundball]

I'm lucky to have an attached garage right off the kitchen with a work bench area to clean my rifles...

 

[Slamfire]

:: Boy does that ever bring back old memories; I remember the first time that I cleaned a BP rifle in the basement. I can still hear the wife yelling from upstairs............" WHAT THE H##L IS THAT? "
That was years ago, shes grown acustomed to that smell along with others ,such as boiling horns, tanning deer hides etc. I think I could field dress a skunk down there now and she wouldn't question it (well maybe not that) but she has adapted. :crackup:
Soggy

I've got a dog you can borrow to test out the skunk idea with. He keeps draggin' one under the house, and my wife don't miss it by more'n a minute of when it happens. :no:

 

[soggy]

::Roundball;
I'm suprised that you find time to clean your rifles at all; what with all them horns, you must spend most of your time "gutting & dragging" Nice collection of trophies. :master: :master:
Soggy

 

[soggy]

I've got a dog you can borrow to test out the skunk idea with. He keeps draggin' one under the house, and my wife don't miss it by more'n a minute of when it happens.

:hmm: :hmm: Thanks for the offer, but I think I'll decline for now! :crackup:
Soggy

 

[roundball]

::Roundball;
I'm suprised that you find time to clean your rifles at all; what with all them horns, you must spend most of your time "gutting & dragging" Nice collection of trophies. :master: :master:
Soggy

Well, they're small compared to what you have in your back yard up north, but we have to play the cards we're dealt
:winking:

 

If she can stand the smell of your socks ...you got a keeper!! :crackup: :imo:

 

[Barney]

I clean mine in the house all the time. I sit on the side of the shower and clean it in the toilet. Turn on the vent fan and nobody knows the difference.

 

[musketman]

I clean mine in the house all the time. I sit on the side of the shower and clean it in the toilet. Turn on the vent fan and nobody knows the difference.

Talking about flushing out a barrel... :winking:

Great Idear... :redthumb: :thumbsup: :front:

 

[AeroE]

First time I cleaned the barrel of my hawken in the kitchen sink, it slipped and the breech hook dented the stainless steel sink; I heard about it.

I clean smokeless guns in the kitchen and the whole family complains about the smell (they don't even like Hoppe's No. 9, what the heck it that all about?), but what else is a kitchen for?

 

I'm lucky to have an attached garage right off the kitchen with a work bench area to clean my rifles...

Now we know why you don't build rifles Roundball!!

That workbench is way too pretty to mess up with wood chips!!!

:crackup: :crackup:

 

[soggy]

If she can stand the smell of your socks ...

I will guarentee you that the socks that I was wearing the night my tent leaked at Blue Mountain were well washed (along with everything else) :crackup: :crackup:
Seems somebody :winking: called me "SOGGY" and it's stuck ever since.

Soggy

 

I clean smokeless guns in the kitchen and the whole family complains about the smell (they don't even like Hoppe's No. 9, what the heck it that all about?), but what else is a kitchen for?

Get yourself a bottle of Hoppe's Elite, and they'll stop complaining about the smell, and, it works better than #9 to boot. :redthumb:

 

[Bob J]

Wife and daughters don't complain about the smell until I start spraying some patches with Ballistol :shocking: :nono:
Even for my own sake I now step out on the back porch to spray 'em ::

 

[Protrucker]

I find the kitchen to be the best place to clean my guns. I put the tea kettle on & then start taking my gun apart. By the time the water is boiling I'm ready to start cleaning. I put the breech end into a bucket & pour the boiling water thru a funnel into the muzzle. The heat from the boiling water makes the barrel heat up & it dries out very well when I'm done. The bore butter melts & really gets into the pores too.

My wife has never complained too much, but before I moved out of my parents house, my dad almost fitted me with a size 9 where you don't usually wear your boots for cleaning them in the kitchen! :haha:

 

[Mossyrock]

I guess I'm a little strange. I always clean my guns, flinter and caplock, at the range. It's kind of part of the ritual for me. I clean with Ballistol "Moose Milk", patches and a toothbrush. No buckets. No boiling water. No toilets (although that is a pretty slick idea). The only thing I do when I get home is run a Ballistol-soaked patch down the bore and wipe the gun off with the same patch. Using this method, I have never had a rusty bore. I can't say the same thing when I was using the boiling water method followed by Bore Butter. Hell, I couldn't STOP the bore from rusting using that method!

 

[Bob J]

Could you outline your specific procedure? There are some days it would be nice to walk in the door and just put'em up done! ::