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If you’re a new shooter, or just bought your first handgun, learning how to clean a pistol is one of the most basic and important things you can do. Properly maintaining your equipment will make you ...

Think of cleaning as a two-stage process. First, you get out the powder fouling, then you get out the copper. For powder fouling, I use Shooters Choice solvent and phosphor-bronze brushes. When you’re ...

“I can’t stand the smell of that stuff,” said the fellow who walked into my office some years ago. I had my .45 in parts strewn across my desk, and I was running a solvent-soaked bore brush through ...