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What are some of the well-loved gun products that continue to face the same persistent problems?
Gun products that still has issues
- Thread starter Alan
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1) I just typed out a looooong sermon about how scopes don’t seem to have evolved as much as guns, projectiles, shotgun shells, etc over the last 100 years.
I answered a text, came back, and it’s gone.
So consider the overlong sentence above as my commentary on that.
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2) Getting more specific, one product came to mind immediately. It has a long history, and is LOVED by many, but to me is nothing great at all.
Brace yourselves, my axe is coming down on a sacred cow.
Hoppe’s Number Nine.
There. I said it. Hoppe’s blows.
Sure, it has that smell. I love it. The effect that smell has is almost magical. The first whiff plants an image in my mind that’s like looking at a painting. I see a wise-looking hunter in a cabin cleaning a Parker double, with his trusted retriever curled at his feet. His cleaning supplies are coming from an oak box with dovetailed joints. Wood and flannel is everywhere.
But clean a gun thoroughly with Hoppe’s No 9, then start again using any of a dozen other brands and look at the crud you get out. It hurts some platings while leaving bore fouling. It has changed over the years while keeping the smell, but the changes didn’t improve it that I’ve seen.
Sorry, but while I like the legend of Hoppe’s, I don’t think it’s much of a product.
Fire away!
I answered a text, came back, and it’s gone.
So consider the overlong sentence above as my commentary on that.
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2) Getting more specific, one product came to mind immediately. It has a long history, and is LOVED by many, but to me is nothing great at all.
Brace yourselves, my axe is coming down on a sacred cow.
Hoppe’s Number Nine.
There. I said it. Hoppe’s blows.
Sure, it has that smell. I love it. The effect that smell has is almost magical. The first whiff plants an image in my mind that’s like looking at a painting. I see a wise-looking hunter in a cabin cleaning a Parker double, with his trusted retriever curled at his feet. His cleaning supplies are coming from an oak box with dovetailed joints. Wood and flannel is everywhere.
But clean a gun thoroughly with Hoppe’s No 9, then start again using any of a dozen other brands and look at the crud you get out. It hurts some platings while leaving bore fouling. It has changed over the years while keeping the smell, but the changes didn’t improve it that I’ve seen.
Sorry, but while I like the legend of Hoppe’s, I don’t think it’s much of a product.
Fire away!
Hmmm. I’ve used it successfully for over 50 years. I guess I just didn’t realize it wasn’t working.
