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Gun Care Guide BALLISTOL GMBH Ballistolweg 1 D-84168 Aham BALLISTOL Germany Telefon +49 (0) 8744 9699-0 Telefax +49 (0) 8744 9699-96 [email protected] www.ballistol.eu Gun care Guide Tips and valuable information about gun care BALLISTOL – The brand for people, animals and all things mechanical. The Ballistol gun care guide for hunters, sports marksmen and collectors, contains plenty of information and tips for cleaning and maintaining your guns in optimal fashion as well as lots of useful advice and interesting background information. Gun care guide Gun care Guide Tips and valuable information about gun care RELIABLE UNIQUE SINCE 1904 CONTENTS WELCOME Page 7 CONTRIBUTORS Page 9 – 11 CHAPTER 1 GENERAL INFORMATION Page 12 – 15 A BROAD FIELD The right individual gun care . 13 Precision emphasized . 14 The ammunition is decisive . .. 14 For reliability’s sake . 15 CHAPTER 2 DESIGNATIONS Page 16 – 29 THE MOST IMPORTANT TERMS AND COMPONENTS Lands and grooves . 17 Fingerprints . 18 Projectile deposits . 18 Smooth shooting and zeroing-in . .. 19 “Cleaning to death” – a myth . 20 Corrosion/rust . 21 Obturation . 22 Oil shot/cleaning shot . 22 Polygonal rifling . 23 Lubricant ceramic . 24 Teflon® . 24 Tombac . 25 Resinification . 25 Breech mechanisms . 28 CHAPTER 3 UTENSILS Page 30 – 37 THE MOST IMPORTANT CLEANING TOOLS Cleaning rod . 31 Brushes . 32 Mobile cleaning assistants . 34 Gun tow, felt cleaner and patches . 34 Cleaning assistants . .. 34 Chemical detergents . 35 Gun oil . 36 Cases and gun holders . 37 4 Contents CHAPTER 4 CHECKING Page 38 – 47 THE INDIVIDUAL CLEAN Time for care . 39 Everything in its place . 39 Soiling in view . .. 40 According to the ammunition . 41 Lead ammunition . 42 Lead-free ammunition . 43 Molybdenum disulphide-coated projectiles . 44 Projectiles with bismuth . 44 Sintered and soft iron ammunition . 44 Projectiles with tin coating . 45 Black powder ammunition . 46 CHAPTER 5 CLEANING Page 48 – 65 THE RIGHT ORDER Pre-cleaning . 49 Simple cleaning/Normal barrel cleaning . 50 Intensive cleaning/stubborn soiling . 53 Use Robla Solo MIL correctly . .54 Barrel cleaning with Ballistol Black Powder Solvent . 57 Cleaning gas-operated guns . .. 58 Cleaning air pistols and rifles . 59 Magazine cleaning . 60 Cleaning mechanical parts . 60 Cleaning the breech mechanism . 61 Cleaning in the ultrasonic bath . 62 Cleaning silencers . 63 CHAPTER 6 CARE Page 66 – 75 IN SHOOTING SHARP CONDITION The browning . 67 Touching up the browning . 68 Stock care . 69 Oiling and overhauling the stock . 71 Cleaning other stock materials . 73 Cleaning optical systems . 73 Oiling the rifle sling . 74 Contents 5 CHAPTER 7 PROTECTING Page 76 – 79 STORAGE AND PRESERVATION Ready for the gun cabinet . .. 77 The gun cabinet . 78 Ammunition storage . 78 APPENDIX BALLISTOL PRODUCTS Page 80 – 95 Ballistol Universal Oil . .. 82 GunCer ceramic gun oil . 84 GunCer ceramic gun grease . 84 Gunex special gun oil . 86 Robla Solo MIL barrel cleaner . 87 Gun parts cleaner . 88 Black Powder Solvent . 88 Quick-Browning . 89 Cold Degreaser . 89 Balsin Stock Oil . 90 Scherell‘s Stock Oil . 90 Trap oil . 91 Silicone oil . 91 Trophy bleaching . .. 92 Vaseline gun grease . 92 Silk tow Sucolin . 93 Flax tow Sucol . 93 Microfibre Patches . 94 Cleaning rod . 94 Silencer cleaner . 94 Flex-Clean . 94 Felt . 94 THE CORRECT CLEANING OF THE BARREL Page 96 – 97 BALLISTOL Page 98 – 99 The company . 98 The invention of Ballistol Universal Oil . 98 For better legibility, we refrain from gender-neutral language use in the following text, without questioning it. 6 Contents ESTEEMED GUN FAN, Dear hunters, sports marksmen and gun collectors, In this small book, we have summarized our knowledge and experience related to the topic of gun care for you so as to pass on to you all the tips and tricks that you require as a gun collector in order to clean and look after your guns in optimal fashion. Whether you are the owner of a short or long gun and whether you take it with you when going through your hunting ground, on the firing range, in competitions or for professional purposes, your gun should always be reliable, precise and well-kept. The visual impression of the gun plays an important role – and not just for collectors. Therefore, correct and careful gun cleaning and care is essential for all gun owners. To gather and compile the information contained in this book, we have availed ourselves of the expertise and many years of experience of several experts with varying backgrounds. In addition to the BALLISTOL owners, chemist Dr Christian Zettler and hunter and active sports marksman An- dreas Zettler, these also include the well-known and renowned gunsmith Peter Abel, sports marksman and multiple world champion Roman Hau- ber, hunter Wolfgang Forstenaicher and an experienced professional ar- mour-bearer whose name we are not permitted to mention here. We hope that you will find many useful tips and plenty of interesting background information in our BALLISTOL Gun Care Guide that will help you in cleaning and looking after your gun. We wish you a lot of fun browsing and of course always good luck and good hunting. Your BALLISTOL team Welcome 7 PROTECTIVE UNERRING PRECISE MAINTENANCE SAFE Gun care by BALLISTOL – lubricates, cleans, maintains and protects all types of rearms. Reliable and proven from the barrel over the breech to the stock. The right solution for your gun. All BALLISTOL products can be found on: www.ballistol.eu /ballistol BALLISTOL – The brand for people, animals and all things mechanical. U B S-F B A T G D O C C C P C S PROTECTIVE UNERRING PRECISE MAINTENANCE SAFE MAY WE PRESENT ... Your are now holding a new version of our “Small Gun Guide” that is no longer so small at all – you could say that the “Small Gun Guide” has ripe- ned. Much research and discussion was conducted; some areas were elaborated in detail and others only touched upon due to their complexity – in such a large topic as the world of guns and gun care, a claim to com- pleteness would surely be presumptuous. However, we are sure that our new Gun Care Guide is a really good source of knowledge for beginners in which all the professionals and “old hands” among you will also find a great deal of interesting information. Therefore, at this point, we would like to say a big thank-you to the follow- Gun care by BALLISTOL – lubricates, cleans, ing people for their collaboration on our new Gun Care Guide. maintains and protects all types of rearms. Reliable and proven from the barrel over the breech to the stock. The right solution for your gun. All BALLISTOL products can be found on: www.ballistol.eu /ballistol BALLISTOL – The brand for people, animals and all things mechanical. U B S-F B A T G D O C C C P C S Contributors 9 Dr Christian Zettler Andreas Zettler Peter Abel Technical director, graduate Commercial director, hunter Gunsmith, graduate engineer chemist and sports marksman Abel, from Frankfurt, born in Many of the chemical details As Commercial Director of 1948, is a graduate engineer in this gun guide come from BALLISTOL GmbH and F.W. in the subjects of optics and Dr Christian Zettler, the Tech- KLEVER GmbH, business precision engineering as well nical Director of F.W. KLEVER manager Andreas Zettler, born as a passionate gunsmith and GmbH and PRO Ballistol in Bergisch-Gladbach in 1975, cutler. Since 1978 he has run GmbH. The graduate chemist, is responsible for the areas of his own shop in an historic born in Bergisch-Gladbach marketing and sales at BALLIS- square in Frankfurt/Höchst. in 1973, has been responsible TOL. He has been a member of The topic of training has long for production, research and the shooting club since he was been a focus of Peter Abel’s development at BALLISTOL 13, followed the traditional and he has hence made it for more than 15 years. His route via pneumatic guns to his mission to pass on the high quality awareness in the large calibre guns, success- experience from the field that development of oils, auxiliary fully obtained his shooting he has acquired over the dec- materials and gun care prod- licence in Bavaria in 2015 and ades. In 1993, he co-founded ucts is outstanding. has since been an active and the Smith & Wesson®- Club enthusiastic hunter. Much of 30 Germany, which he also his experience in the field has led as 1st chairman for the made its way into the gun first 10 years and influenced guide. accordingly. He contributed his knowledge and ability from over 40 years of experi- ence in the profession to the gun guide. 10 Contributors Roman Hauber Wolfgang Forstenaicher Professional armour- Sports marksman Hunter, graduate engineer bearers Professional firefighter Roman As a practitioner in daily Members of special operation Hauber, born in Regensburg hunting operations, Wolfgang forces of the police and the in 1966, took up large-calibre Forstenaicher, a graduate military were available to us shooting in 1999 and soon engineer in forest engineer- for information regarding the thereafter came his first titles ing, provided valuable tips special needs of professional at club and district level. Par- and suggestions for this armour-bearers; however, ticularly in the DSB National gun guide. Born in 1975, he unfortunately we are not and the BDMP National and studied forestry at Weihen- permitted to name these International, Roman Hauber stephan University of Applied persons here. very quickly closed the gap Sciences and has worked on the top marksmen. He has as a ranger for the Bavarian been a member of the BDMP Forestry Administration since national team for more than 2004. He has been a shoot 10 years and has won 7 world tenant of a Lower Bavarian champion titles in this time.
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