{"id":2847,"date":"2009-07-05T15:53:55","date_gmt":"2009-07-05T22:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2009\/07\/05\/gun-cleaning-kit\/"},"modified":"2009-07-05T15:53:55","modified_gmt":"2009-07-05T22:53:55","slug":"gun-cleaning-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2009\/07\/05\/gun-cleaning-kit\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun Cleaning Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/tackle-box.jpg' title='Gun cleaning kit'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/tackle-box.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Gun cleaning kit' class='right' \/><\/a>For quite some time now, we have been using this fishing tackle box to hold our gun cleaning supplies. We bought the tackle box at a local merchandise liquidation store for under 20 bucks, as I recall, with the intention to use it as a gun cleaning toolbox.<\/p>\n<p>The lid of the box functions as a caddy for patches of various sizes, Q-tips and band-aids. I make most of the patches myself, by cutting up retired T-shirts and other surplus cloth.<\/p>\n<p>Inside, there is a removable tray. That&#8217;s where we keep the bore brushes, small cleaning rods, various bits for the rods, cleaning brushes and several small hand tools. We also keep a small bottle of solvent and some gun oil (Hoppes number nine, in this case). Other special tools, like the choke wrench for the shotguns, lives in this shelf.<\/p>\n<p>The inside of the box is used for longer cleaning rods, towels and cleaning rags, cleaner\/lube\/protectant spray (Strike Hold is what we use), and other goodies like oil wipe packets for the wooden stocks and fore-ends. When we set up to clean the guns, we put the tray on the workbench for access to both the box and the tray.<\/p>\n<p>After our trip to the range today, we took the kit into the patio under the canopy and cleaned up the guns we took with us today. It was a beautiful day for shooting and an outdoor cleanup. Later, we&#8217;re going to barbecue a Porterhouse steak.<\/p>\n<p>We hope everyone&#8217; having a great Independence Holiday weekend. We sure are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For quite some time now, we have been using this fishing tackle box to hold our gun cleaning supplies. We bought the tackle box at a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firearms","category-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}