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Review: Nanoguard gun cleaning liquids after 17 months


I have routinely used Australian-made Nanoguard CLP-X lubricant and cleaner on a weekly basis for 17 months and have seen noticeable improvements in corrosion protection, smoothness and bore fouling in rifles that have been shot extensively during that time. 

My original write-up has a detailed explanation of what it is, but the short story is that Nanoguard makes a gun oil, a cleaner/lubricant/protector and a pure cleaner, and it is proving so good it is quickly being adopted by our military forces.

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These two Parker Hale 7x57s needed work to fix rough functioning in bolt manipulation. Nanoguard to the rescue

Its use of spherical nanoparticles is state of the art technology in firearms and makes it suitable for a wide range of applications — general lubrication, protection of other friction producing mechanical items/tools. 

Nanoguard was also developed in Australia, is made in Australia and comes at a low price point for this kind of protect. The question is, how good has been over almost a year and a half.

Now, I try to optimise the operation of all my firearms with better than average maintenance and preparation. The fact that I came from a long line of soldiers, who looked after their gear assiduously and also shot full-bore rifle discipline as juniors, surely went some way to that attitude.

I live by the sea and the odd speck of “the red devil” (rust, in Army parlance) would surface very occasionally. That is easy to fall victim to because in tiny nooks, like under sight mounts etc, you can fail to get the oily rag in there and remedial action must be taken.

Most of the points for lubricating a Mauser 98 bolt to free up functioning and smoothness. Nanoguard Gun Oil works well here; only a drop was required at each spot

Over the past nine months, I have not detected any “devils” on my firearms in regular use. 

Irritatingly, I dragged a pristine, highly accurate No4 Savage .303 from my safe the weekend before I wrote this account and it had some surface rust on the foresight mount/housing. I had not inspected this rifle – or cleaned it – since before I started using Nanoguard. 

SMOOTHER CYCLING

Since I started using Nanoguard, I have acquired a couple of 40-something year old Parker Hale rifles — Mauser 98 types — in 7×57 Mauser chambering. One, a Deluxe Sporter which had been modified-customised slightly, had done very little work. The other, a standard model with iron sights appears never to have been shot. 

They were both rough in function, the Deluxe being stiff in feeding and extraction — probably typical of the genre — and the other left deep divots on new cartridge case rims while having an almost non-functioning double-stepped feed issue.

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Typical of Trail Boss centrefire loads Marcus uses often. The hard-cast lead loads create sooty black deposits which can be loosened nicely for removal with Nanoguard aerosol and Nanoguard hydrocarbon Gun Cleaner

For the Deluxe model, I applied small amounts of JB Non-Embedding Bore Paste to the rear of lug surfaces and other bearing surfaces which may impede smooth functioning, with a drop of Nanoguard lubricant, applying it to every bearing surface on the bolt, lugs, extractor claw and body bearing surfaces, exposed trigger sear and the internal running surfaces of the receiver. Then I sat down watching Star Trek Next Gen and cycled the bolt rapidly about 100 times. At the end of that process, it was running as slick as a sow’s ear. 

The Standard model was given the same treatment after a visit to my long-suffering gunsmith, who filed and bent the extractor to the point where the feed issue receded. It was still a might rough in function, so I gave it the same treatment as the Deluxe and now they both work beautifully and slickly, presenting no on-range problems with rapid-fire serials and displaying terrific accuracy and consistency. 

ACCURACY AND CONSISTENCY

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Marcus recently shot a multistage walk-down shoot on a reduced size target using the rougher of the two Parker Hales, after it was gunsmithed and slicked up with Nanoguard CLP-X and Gun Oil. Function of the previously rough action was smooth and faultless

In my continuing recovery from quintuple bypass surgery, I have “exercised my tail off” and am on a small raft of drugs to keep me functioning normally, including a beta-blocker every day. To say my shooting has improved to a level when I was winning state championships would be an accurate assessment, even though I do not formally compete as much as I did.

I shoot quite a lot of my rifles on a regular basis with commercial hard-cast lead bullets in .303 Brit, .30-06 and 7mm with light loads of TrailBoss propellents behind them and I had experienced some leading and hard-to-dislodge carbon fouling.

Then I started cleaning my bores using Helmar carbon cleaner followed with Nanoguard gun oil with a little JB bore paste on the patch. Then I follow up with Nanoguard’s hydrocarbon based Spray Cleaner (a squirt up the bore from the receiver), dry patches and finish with little Nanoguard CLP spray on a patch. 

It is a bit of a belt-and-braces approach, but any subsequent leading seems to have greatly reduced or be non-existent and the rifles all group well. 

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The Gun Cleaner spray is not a lubricant, just a pure cleaner that quickly clears buildups of various kinds. It’s particular good in rimfires and high-volume centrefire firearms

With centrefire jacketed bullet loads, mostly in 7×57, I have done what I always have regarding copper and carbon/powder residue removal, eg, apply any copper remover (my solvent de jour is Wipe-Out Patch-Out) followed by dry patches and then a patch lightly sprayed with Nanoguard CLP. I feel that copper fouling buildup is better kept at bay now due to using Nanoguard. 

When I shine a torch at the rifling just inside the muzzle, unless I have more than a week’s worth of shooting accumulated, I cannot detect any telltale coppery-brown colour on the lands. Note that back down the barrel around the leade rifling, there may still be some copper buildup, but the muzzle inspection is an indicator of it being better under control. 

Nanoguard CLP-X is also applied lightly to all bearing surfaces, rubbed over all exposed metal surfaces and pushed into nooks and crannies. The rifle is then right for storage until next time. 

A lot of the shooting I do consists of 10-12 rounds fired over a 20-minute period followed by a couple of rapid-fire serials totalling a further 12 to 20 rounds.

This makes the bore hot, laying down fouling. It’s and enough with copper jackets, but worse with different sorts of jacket materials, including copper washed mild steel ones; not a recipe to see your face in the rifling (if you could squeeze your head inside the muzzle of your rifle, that is).

Without keeping assiduous records, I have a definite qualitative impression from weekly rapid-fire service rifle shooting with all types of centrefire sporters and bolt-action military rifles that copper fouling takes less work – and less solvent – to remove now that I am using NanoGuard. 

The Nanoguard also works beautifully at removing carbon fouling from my barrels, particularly when aided with a stiff bristle brush after the Nanoguard has soaked in for 15-30 minutes. 

In summary: 

  • Nanoguard works at least as well, if not better than any other product for the purposes intended
  • Its nano-technology is truly revolutionary in the firearms space
  • It is unbelievably inexpensive for the job it does
  • It will give our servicemen and women an edge where it counts. It will save lives. 

Watch this space for future revolutionary ballistic application developments coming very soon. For more, visit the Nanoguard website.

 

 

 


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