Hoppe's 9

[Irn-Bru]

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

 

[kamloops67]

good relaxing smell
They should make truck fresheners

 

[jeffsmith]

They Do

 

[chief38]

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 !!!

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

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)

Ivan

 

[rjm6120]

Been using Hoppe's since 1990, and see no reason to change. Good stuff and good smell.

 

[Salty RI]

Been using Hoppe's forever, and your wife's dishrag oh sure, we all believe that one.

 

[Rpg]

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.

 

[soFlaNative]

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.

 

[Irn-Bru]

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.

 

[otisrush]

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!

 

[islamoradamark]

love the smell of Hoppe's and gun oil

 

[H Richard]

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.

 

[Rule3]

Here ya go, ad this to the collection. Aerosol

Hoppe's #9 Bore Cleaning Solvent 2oz Aerosol

 

[vt_shooter]

I use Hoppes #9 as after shave - love the smell of the stuff.

 

[walkin jack]

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.

 

[walkin jack]

I use Hoppes #9 as after shave - love the smell of the stuff.

Me too! I just wear it on Sundays for chruch. I wear my Ode de fish guts during the week.

 

[Vulcan Bob]

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.

 

[mod29]

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.

 

[rburg]

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.