How do you guys clean your pistols before putting them away

[daddySEAL]

Right, NcongruNt
I've promoted Microlon Gun Juice here also.
I intend to treat and fire all my pistols with it to seal(smoothen)the bores and treat other critical metal parts with it.....and then use the GUNZILLA from then on.

thanks for your input on the Gun Juice also. I too think it is amazing for what it does also. Then I'll use the the All-In-One GUNZILLA for EVERYTHING else instead of it or all the other products.

Write the creator of GUNZILLA, get a free sample and see(Except for the initial pore sealing properties of Microlon) if you think it does away with CPL or with using all the cleaning, lubing moving parts, bore and other rust preventer products, OK?

[KD5NRH]

I'm curious about the process and products other people use to clean and lube their semi-autos after firing (at the range or wherever), before storing them.

Well, since mine are "stored ready," (all the functional pistols are kept loaded) I tend to clean them the same way most of the time.

I keep a few cleaners on hand, but lately I've become a big fan of Blue Wonder's cleaner since it seems to work really well with less work and a lot less smell than some of the others. Really dirty guns get a hosing out with Break Free Gun Scrubber or any brake cleaner first, but this is rarely a problem, since I like to Boresnake anything that starts acting dirty while shooting.

For lube, I've used high-temp lithium grease, Rem Oil, Break Free CLP, and Mobil One 15W50. Avoid the grease in cold weather, but all the others work fine. I'm currently using the Mobil, since it's easy to get a rag just-damp-enough with it and use it constantly during detail strip and reassembly so that everything comes out lubed and protected just right. It's also cheap enough ($6/quart) to really slop it onto anything that will be in less-than-ideal conditions without regretting wasting lube that comes in tiny little bottles.

[nuparadigm]

For cleaning, I use Ed's Red.

For lube, I use Brian Enos' Slide Glide.

[dukalmighty]

I think i got lazy over the years but i spray my barrels with bore scrubber stick a brass bristle brush ona cleaning rod chuck up in my drill and run it in and out a few times,then i run a patch through a few times,rest of gun use cleaner like brake parts cleaner spray it down scrub any deposits with brass brush wipe down with an oily rag, on my carry piece i spray with dri lube on the barrel and contact rails on slide,

[mr surveyor]

I think i got lazy over the years but i spray my barrels with bore scrubber stick a brass bristle brush ona cleaning rod chuck up in my drill and run it in and out a few times,then i run a patch through a few times,rest of gun use cleaner like brake parts cleaner spray it down scrub any deposits with brass brush wipe down with an oily rag, on my carry piece i spray with dri lube on the barrel and contact rails on slide,

just curious, but are you able to get out all the trace metal fouling from the rifling groves with the bore brush rotating? I always figured a brush moving with more rotation than the rifling twist would miss the deeper edges of the rifling groves, kind of like sweeping across a crack in a floor, rather than with the direction of the crack. I have chucked a brush in a drill to clean out .38 spl lead fouling from a .357 mag revolver chambering before.

[Venus Pax]

My uncle talked us into Powder Blast gun cleaner. I oil them well after cleaning.