Favorite gun smells

[Recluse]

G-96 gun treatment! Smells like a gun show!!

Toss up which I like more--G96 or Hoppes #9. Give me some Hoppes while cleaning up a freshly fired .22LR and it can bring back memories for 45+ years ago in a nano-second.



But G96 is hard to beat. Great stuff.

[Alchemist]

hoppes #9 you know they make air fresheners with that smell

Really? Where might a guy get some of those.

Also like the smell of boolit lube, CLP, even Ballistol in a twisted sort of way...(it stinks so good).

[LUBEDUDE]

hoppes #9 you know they make air fresheners with that smell

I was so excited when those came out years ago. I think I was their first pigeon. It lasted a whole day! Ok, I exaggerate, two days! What a gyp!

But it all worked out. For the same price of the freshner, I had the cap come off of a 4oz bottle in the back seat of the truck.

That was good for 9-10 months. On real hot days you can still smell it years later.

The real McCoy beats an air freshner anyday!

Smells like....... Victory!

[smokeywolf]

Grew up with the smell of Hoppe's #9. I think I must have been smelling that, harness leather and horse sweat about the same time I started smelling the baby powder being sprinkled on my butt.
For the last 3 years, I've also come to like the smell of G96.

smokeywolf

[Jr.]

Break free and any fresh burned powder

[snaketail]

The smell of burned powder from an old Winchester .22LR on a crisp fall morning. That smell brings back good memories.
I shoot Wolf now and the smell just isn't the same.

[Clay M]

I always like the smell of 2400 burning. I remember it from the days my dad took me out to shoot with him back in the 60's

[sidecarmike]

Enough Said! Every time I pop one open, I remember the first time I fired the single shot Stevens 20 gauge. I bought from the neighbor kid for something like $10 or $15 dollars when I was around 13 or so. I love that smell.

[Garyshome]

The NEW gun smell!

[bear67]

Lube dude said he spilled #9 in his back seat--maybe the solution is to just pour an ounce in the carpet every once in a while. Wait a minute, I hate carpet in don't have carpet in my trucks. I buy fleet trucks to get around the carpet and leather fancy seat covers. Maybe just spill it in the seat, my back seat is usually just additional tool or gun storage.

True tale, but not a gun smell. I cook with several Dutch Oven cooking groups and have done cooking demos all over. Several years ago I was doing a bread cooking demo down south and was driving my one ton. Needed sourdough starter so I fed the crock and packed it in the passenger floorboard with other supplies so it would not tip over (I thought). Had to make an emergency stop when someone pulled out in front of me. The crock dumped most of its contents in the vinyl floor mats and ran under to the padding. When it was warm, or humid and the windows rolled up, you could smell the natural yeast for a couple years. Was pulling one of the goosenecks with this truck last fall and thought that maybe I should spill some more sourdough starter in the floor--might cover the smell of cow manure tracked in.

[Dframe]

50/50 bullet lube. Specifically Lees. I keep a stick around just for nose hits.

You beat me to it. Sure gotta agree with you on this one.

[DCM]

Burnt gunpowder! Smells like freeedom!

[Ed1]

hoppes #9 for sure

[Bullshop Junior]

Marvels mystery oil smells good too.

[rexherring]

The old Federal paper hull 12 guage when shooting pheasants.

[garandnutts]

Hoppes 9, Federal paper shells(fired), a fresh can of Varget, nitro methane burnt in a Rolls-Royce V-12(hydroplane motor), 80/87 avgas, burning kerosene from a jet engine and the smell of my shop when I tig weld....wood smoke in the forest on opening day of deer season.....