Best smelling gun oil.
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BowStreetRunner
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gotta go with the cosmo (cosmoline)
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bigmtnman
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Fp-10
mack69
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Re:
Breakfree or Militec.....
Breakfree or Militec.....
roy berkeley
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What's the best-smelling gun oil?
Back in the late 50s I was in Western Europe and discovered a product called "Ballistol". I think it was manufactured in West Germany; I remember buying it first in Switzerland. It worked well enough, but I especially liked the smell of it.
When I returned to the States, I could not find it anywhere, so I sighed, shrugged and went on to other products. Then, a few years ago, I learned that "Ballistol" is available in the US. I hurried to mail-order a small aerosol can of it, and eagerly sprayed some onto a metal surface and sniffed it. It wasn't the Ballistol I remembered! Either the manufacturer has changed the formula or I'm going senile. (Hmm. It occurs to me that the two alternatives outlined here are *not* mutually exclusive.)
Back in the late 50s I was in Western Europe and discovered a product called "Ballistol". I think it was manufactured in West Germany; I remember buying it first in Switzerland. It worked well enough, but I especially liked the smell of it.
When I returned to the States, I could not find it anywhere, so I sighed, shrugged and went on to other products. Then, a few years ago, I learned that "Ballistol" is available in the US. I hurried to mail-order a small aerosol can of it, and eagerly sprayed some onto a metal surface and sniffed it. It wasn't the Ballistol I remembered! Either the manufacturer has changed the formula or I'm going senile. (Hmm. It occurs to me that the two alternatives outlined here are *not* mutually exclusive.)
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Hoppes #9, followed closely by cosmoline.
Of course, I also like the smell of burnt gunpowder. No, not Wolf, but Winchester white box.
Of course, I also like the smell of burnt gunpowder. No, not Wolf, but Winchester white box.
SemperFi83
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SLightly OT even though I shoot/clean every week, the first whiff of CLP always puts me right back at Parris Island...as does the smell of rain hitting a hot July asphalt "Grinder" 
10 Ring Tao
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The smell of Break free CLP and Hoppes always puts me at ease whenever I walk into my workshop.
jefnvk
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Not too many milsurpers, I see (or, maybe many that have cleaned cosmo off one too many guns 
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I don't know how you guys say CLP doesn't smell. It's about the smelliest to me.
)I don't know how you guys say CLP doesn't smell. It's about the smelliest to me.
FlyinGN
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I like FP-10 too.
lycanthrope
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Fp-10.
MoNsTeR
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Hoppe's "orange bottle." Odorless.
Dave Markowitz
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Oil: FP-10
Solvent: Hoppe's No.9
I like Ballistol as a product but it smells like stinky feet! Likewise, Kroil is an excellent solvent/penetrating agent but it REEKS.
Solvent: Hoppe's No.9
I like Ballistol as a product but it smells like stinky feet! Likewise, Kroil is an excellent solvent/penetrating agent but it REEKS.
mcneill
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While not a petroleum product, I like Thompson Center's Bore Butter. Always thought it smelled like Ben Gay. Season your muzzleloader and treat sore/aching muscles with the same product.
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smokemaker
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Hoppe's #9
I also like the smell of that pine scented T/C bore butter.
But I like a good hit of anhydrous ammonia every so often at work, too. Smells like money to a refrigeration guy
I also like the smell of that pine scented T/C bore butter.
But I like a good hit of anhydrous ammonia every so often at work, too. Smells like money to a refrigeration guy
Ryder
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FP-10 smells good enough to put on pancakes.
cracked butt
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After breaking the onerous and tough to quit habit of chewing tobaco, my favorite being kodiak wintergreen, the first time I smelled Bore Butter, I kind of got the shakes.
Alaskanmonte
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Hoppe'd #9, my wife loves it when I clean the guns in the living room .
.Desert Dog
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Birchwood Casey Sheath followed closely by Breakfree CLP.
12-34hom
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G-96 best solvent - oil product for firearms
Smells excellent to boot.
12-34hom
Smells excellent to boot.
12-34hom
ATAShooter
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I use G96, I like the smell... Now Bore butter smells and tastes like those wax lips and teeth we used to get when we were kids... I am glad it's non-toxic, cause I ate some.
I can't believe no one has yet asked WHY this thread was started !
But I'll play along... FP-10 is my all-purpose cologne with a dash of Boeshield T9 thrown in for good measure.
I will also concur with an earlier reply however... that you'd be hard pressed to beat Eezox when you want to make a lasting impression during a brief encounter with the doll of your dreams...
!But I'll play along... FP-10 is my all-purpose cologne with a dash of Boeshield T9 thrown in for good measure.
I will also concur with an earlier reply however... that you'd be hard pressed to beat Eezox when you want to make a lasting impression during a brief encounter with the doll of your dreams...
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