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Been using the stuff for as long as I've been in to guns. I use Ballistol now and again too, but Hoppe's is the go too. The only thing I don't like about Hoppe's is not having the option of a spray can or bottle. So I bought my own bottles on Amazon and bingo, exactly what I want I usually always buy the 32 oz bottle of Hoppe's and for under $13 that can't be beat. The six pack of glass spray bottles were under $10, so life is good.
Don't mind the dish rag, it's the wife's
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good relaxing smell :-)
They should make truck fresheners
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Hmm, I am just the opposite and USUALLY prefer liquid that I can use drop by drop rather than the spray cans. I actually have a few of the old style brown glass pharmaceutical Dripper bottles and they work great. The only problem with those is that when I break one I have not found anywhere to buy new ones. The spray can chemicals get all over the place, are messy and get used up much faster. Plus I do not like getting any more chemicals airborne than necessary. I do sometimes use the spray version of certain chemicals but I do that outdoors where ventilation is not an issue.
I do like your idea of the brown glass pump sprayers though and think that they would get only a minimal of Hoppes airborne - good move Irn-Bru !!!
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I left Hoppe's #9 years ago because it flakes the nickel on old gun and the chrome bores on AR's. I have primarily used Shooters Choice. I too buy quarts and refill smaller bottles, and like baby food bottles for soaking parts. When I find old Hoppe's from the 60's or before I hide from the adult sons and use it on special projects (with surgical gloves)
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Been using Hoppe's since 1990, and see no reason to change. Good stuff and good smell.
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Been using Hoppe's forever, and your wife's dishrag oh sure, we all believe that one.
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I've been using Hoppes since the '60's.
Still have a quart glass bottle.
Can't imagine wanting to spray the stuff.
A little on a patch, brush or rag is all it takes.
I clean a lot of guns.
Doubt I'll run out of the Hoppes on hand in my life.
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I trashed a small bottle of Hoppe's years back through ignorance. I was dipping patches and bore brushes into the bottle to clean shotguns and transferring the crud to the liquid not seeing through the brown glass. When I began shooting revolvers I picked up a quart bottle and dumped the old stuff when I right away noticed the difference.
I since picked up a few TSA compliant 3 oz. plastic bottles from one of the Mart stores. Added some Hoppe's, let it set for a day or two to see if they were solvent proof and voila! a little dab or drip will do me.
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I wanted the spray so I didn't keep transferring the dirt back in the bottle. I spray the inside and outside of my barrel, or spray it on a patch or toothbrush. Before, I poured some in a smaller container, this just makes it easier for me.
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Just a week ago I scoured the house for a refillable drip bottle and I poured Hoppes into it so I can get a patch wet without having to dip the patch into the Hoppes bottle. It makes things a lot easier!
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I always transfer my Hoppes to a smaller plastic bottle with a long steel needle type dispenser tube. Drop by drop exactly where I want it to go.
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Here ya go, ad this to the collection. Aerosol
Hoppe's #9 Bore Cleaning Solvent 2oz Aerosol
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I use Hoppes #9 as after shave - love the smell of the stuff.
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I inherited my Dad's 1903 w/original box ammo cleaning gear including the bottle of Hoppe's you see in the right. He leased it new from the govt circa 1944. I tried to open the bottle but it wouldn't budge. I wanted to see what condition it was in after that much time but I didn't want to damage the bottle or the cap so I decided to let it be.
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Me too! I just wear it on Sundays for chruch. I wear my Ode de fish guts during the week.
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Still use Hoppe's #9 mixed 1/3rd Kroil and 2/3rd Hoppe's as a general purpose bore cleaner. Way back when in the mid 70's living in a tiny attic apartment there was no room for a gun room so gun cleaning was done on the living room coffee table. Well an open quart bottle of Hoppe's was knocked onto the standard issue green shag carpet. Place smelled great for quite awhile although my wife did not share that opinion.
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The smell of Hoppes #9 solvent always brings back a flood of memories for me.
My dad used it to clean his firearms, and that's how he taught me.
So I've been using that stuff for 50 + years
I keep using it because it works and I trust it not to damage my prized firearms.
The only exception to that, I use CLP on my AR-15s and my Glocks.
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The old Hoppe's #9 had benzene in it. The EPA has decided its a carcinogen so its bad. I still have some in a quart bottle, nicely sealed. The word of the day is waste not, want not. Or the old Brylcream ad, a little dab'll do you. I don't soak my guns in Hoppe's. I use it freely on the bore because I like bright green patches. Drippin it all over solves nothing. Like others, I transfer to a smaller bottle to use it. I also like the clear stuff I find from time to time. Its powder solvent and has no ammonia to scavenge copper fouling. I wish I could still find the old cans of military solvent, the stuff that told you not to drink it. Causes death and its going to be painful all the while. I never was big on CLP for the bore and powder removal. Maybe others are better at it than I am. I do like Collectors CLP.
A trick my now deceased gun show partner taught me was the CLP and shaving brush. John liked engraved guns. So he had a little trick with the stuff. He wasn't shy about putting some on his guns, but then he'd smear it all over the engraving with an old soft shaving brush. I use a camel hair brush because its cheaper and I've got one handy. The idea is to make sure some of it gets in all the cuts, and then in hard to reach places like the junction of the barrel and frame, or under the extractor. I guess he just didn't want his high dollar guns to rust up.
But Hoppe's is a cleaning agent, not an oil (they do make oil). For spray oil in warm weather I like Remoil. No real reason why, maybe its the only good product that company still produces. Who knows.
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I tried using it as a cologne a few years ago but when I went to Walmart all I got was a bunch of old farts in camo following me around.
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One of my prized DU Banquet auction purchases is titled Hoppe's No. 9, by Dennis Minor, print 369 of 4,850. I need a tripod to get a good photo of it because of the frame glass. That print talked to me, and I brought it home to proudly display.
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I tried using it as a cologne a few years ago but when I went to Walmart all I got was a bunch of old farts in camo following me around.
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I inherited my Dad's 1903 w/original box ammo cleaning gear including the bottle of Hoppe's you see in the right. He leased it new from the govt circa 1944. I tried to open the bottle but it wouldn't budge. I wanted to see what condition it was in after that much time but I didn't want to damage the bottle or the cap so I decided to let it be.
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That's a really neat thing to have, especially with it being your dad's. That's a bottle of the old Hoppes lube oil he kept, companion to the #9 cleaning solvent. I used the oil regularly too as well as Hoppes gun grease. Still use them for that matter and have some of the old bottles of oil and #9 solvent I have collected (yeah, I actually have a collection of old gun cleaning gear and supplies).
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Yeah I think I remember you. I'uz one a them old farts. It was tough but I was finally able to fight my way to the front of the pack.
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When my wife cleans her guns she always dabs some Hoppe's 9 behind her ears...works every time!
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The old Hoppe's #9 had benzene in it. The EPA has decided its a carcinogen so its bad. I still have some in a quart bottle, nicely sealed. The word of the day is waste not, want not. Or the old Brylcream ad, a little dab'll do you. I don't soak my guns in Hoppe's. I use it freely on the bore because I like bright green patches. Drippin it all over solves nothing. Like others, I transfer to a smaller bottle to use it. I also like the clear stuff I find from time to time. Its powder solvent and has no ammonia to scavenge copper fouling. I wish I could still find the old cans of military solvent, the stuff that told you not to drink it. Causes death and its going to be painful all the while. I never was big on CLP for the bore and powder removal. Maybe others are better at it than I am. I do like Collectors CLP.
A trick my now deceased gun show partner taught me was the CLP and shaving brush. John liked engraved guns. So he had a little trick with the stuff. He wasn't shy about putting some on his guns, but then he'd smear it all over the engraving with an old soft shaving brush. I use a camel hair brush because its cheaper and I've got one handy. The idea is to make sure some of it gets in all the cuts, and then in hard to reach places like the junction of the barrel and frame, or under the extractor. I guess he just didn't want his high dollar guns to rust up.
But Hoppe's is a cleaning agent, not an oil (they do make oil). For spray oil in warm weather I like Remoil. No real reason why, maybe its the only good product that company still produces. Who knows.
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The original #9 was essentially Jet Fuel! It was pretty potent stuff. Yes, it was/is a solvent for cleaning not a lube or corrosion preventive.
Anyone look at the Hoppes website lately? They make more snake oil products you can't keep track of them.
All kinds of catchy names and supposed uses.
Hoppe's 9 - The Gun Care People
Hoppe's 9 - The Gun Care People
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Works great as a gun solvent. The banana smell has kind of lost it's charm to me, I'd like it better if it were scentless, but as is it's a great solvent available everywhere and works great for general gun cleaning. Daddy like.
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If womenz ever reeliz Hoppe's #9 is an aphrodisiac to males, wez bez in baaaad twubble!
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Hoppes #9 isn't compatible..
Hoppes #9 and other products with ammonia are NOT compatible with the new blueing process used by S&W. It will turn your guns a violet color.
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I used #9 for years. then I was given some Hoppe's Elite: it cleans a lot better and fasteer than #9 so that's what i use now. Pity it doesn't smell as good.
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I was looking at Hoppe's the other day in a sport store and wondered why #9 wasn't in a spray. I wouldn't want aerosol, but a pump like you've done. I think that's better to get just what you want on a patch or brush, or rag. I think some of you guys have been smelling too much of that stuff. I think I'm seeing the results of long term abuse in this thread.
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Hoppes #9 and other products with ammonia are NOT compatible with the new blueing process used by S&W. It will turn your guns a violet color.
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Is this from personal experience or is this documented somewhere? I only ask because I recently acquired a new S&W 442. I don't remember having issues with it on my M&P 9mm, but I've had that for some time now, that and I usually wipe it down with CLP or Rig. Thanks!
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From Hatcher's Notebook (and if you don't have a copy, you should get one), this is what he says is the original formulation of Hoppe's #9:
Oleic acid...............................................16%
Neutral Saponifiable Oil............................24%
Nitrobenzene............................................6%
Light Mineral Oil, such as kerosene plus
Amyl Acetate...........................................54%
The aroma is a result of Amyl Acetate and Nitrobenzene. Amyl Acetate has a banana-like smell. Maybe that is its sole purpose in the mixture, just to give it a more distinctive smell.
I don't know what the current formula is, certainly no Nitrobenzene today. My belief is that it really makes little difference as to which bore cleaner is used. All probably perform equally. Keep in mind that plain old mineral spirits works very well as a gun and bore cleaner. My father's favorite bore and gun cleaner was penetrating oil. He kept a gallon can of it, used it for lots of things. I still have a small bottle of that very same penetrating oil taken from that gallon can to this day just as a memento, and occasionally use it sparingly.
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I have an old pint bottle from the 70's that has gotten so dirty that I don't use it to clean guns anymore. I use new Hoppe's, Shooter's Choice, or Ballstol now. But when I use these other products, I leave the old bottle open on the bench; the aroma somehow gives me confidence that I'm doing a good job.
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I've always used Hoppes #9. It has always done what I needed it to do, and I like the smell. I still have a number of the glass bottles, which I refill from the large size plastic bottles. The Hoopes Elite gun oil works good too, and the bottles don't leak. Back when Penguin Industries owned Hoppes it was made right down the road from me just outside of Coatesville by the airport. The old Penguin/Hoppes facility is now a Sikorsky helo plant.
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Friday nights, I shut out the lights and sniff Hoppy's for a while. Cheaper than going to the liquor store.
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