Gun Room Aromas -- Hoppes #9 etc.

[Tesoro]

where to buy so I dont have to do drips on my truck carpet! edit: found em and ordered!

 

[Sandstorm]

H4831sc burning down the 1000 yd line....on a cold January morning.

 

[bobinpa]

G96 takes me back to my childhood when I would look through my dads cleaning stuff.

 

[anschuter2013]

The sweet smell of Eley .22LR match ammo on a weekend morning. When you cycle the bolt, you can see the faint remnants of smoke exiting the breech, then it hits your nose.

The next best thing is Hoppe's numba 9 because it reminds me of my first and favorite mom&pop gun shop where I bought my first rifle circa 1989. It was a Ruger Varmint Tang Safety M77 in .308 topped with a Leupold fixed M8 8X. When you opened the door, you entered another world. It's long gone now...

 

[Tommie]

Agreed with Hoppe’s. For me it’s a reminder of my youth. That first .22 is a right of passage. Being responsible for the safe use and care of a firearm was a first step away from being a child - both in my eyes as well as my father’s. Good times.

 

[Old Navy]

Sure hope the DEA isn't reading this. They will be checking #9 to see what you guys are getting high on.

 

[johnfred1965]

The sweet smell of Eley .22LR match ammo on a weekend morning. When you cycle the bolt, you can see the faint remnants of smoke exiting the breech, then it hits your nose.

The next best thing is Hoppe's numba 9 because it reminds me of my first and favorite mom&pop gun shop where I bought my first rifle circa 1989. It was a Ruger Varmint Tang Safety M77 in .308 topped with a Leupold fixed M8 8X. When you opened the door, you entered another world. It's long gone now...

I was wondering when someone would mention 22lr. As a kid and a young man it was always the smell of having fun with my friends while we went through a brick

 

[1shot]

The smell of opening a fresh can of powder.

 

[strut64]

Red Dot powder and paper hulls! now that smell is like no other.

 

[Fuj]

Red Dot powder and paper hulls! now that smell is like no other.

Peters blue paper shot shells had that type of odor.
Canadian paper Canucks also.

Not gun related unless your were on your way for a hunting
trip and had to fill the truck up at the Minute Man Gas station,
The smell of pre 70's Leaded gasoline.

 

[OMW57]

THE SMELL OF FRESH POWDER COMING FROM THE JUG, TAKES ME BACK TO THE 70'S & MY LEE HAND LOADER DAYS!

 

[cwebster]

Hoppes and paper shotgun shells for sure..

 

[Bill K]

For over 70 some odd years, Hoppe's #9 is just the aroma that cries out "Guns" .
Second place is the smell of burnt powder, floating in the air.

 

[ChrisA]

Timely thread, started pellet grill Christmas eve morning and couldn't smell the smoke. Immediately went to gun room and opened Hoppe's #9 bottle...nothing; oh boy, I'm screwed.

Chris

 

[Joe Maisto]

Five or ten shooters shooting three grains of Bullseye & whatever that smoky wax bullet lube was on 38 Special wadcutters on the basement range of the local police dept. with no exhaust fans every Friday night.

Haven't smelled any Hoppe's for years, but remember the change from the original formula smelled different enough to notice.

Yup, but it's the first thing I put down my bore after a match, followed by Butches......

 

[MClark]

A friend was asking why I use BL-C(2) to reload, there are better modern powders. He went on and on. When he finished I looked at him and said, "It smells like old machine guns."

 

[lightman]

I have to agree with Hoppe's #9. Lin Seed Oil and the smoke from burning IMR early in the morning.

 

[ksnyder]

There is nothing like the smell of a two stroke boat motor backing off a boat ramp at 5:00 in the morning in January.

 

[drano38]

Hoppe’s is great stuff. Just bought a quart on Thursday.
Hodgdon Clays smoke rolling out the barrels of my over/under smells awesome, and takes me back to the mid '90s when I shot thousands of rounds each year.

 

[Cloudrepair]

Besides gun oil and cleaner I somehow got to like the smell of hot tar
I guess I picked it up from doing hot tar roofing for a while
I dont like road construction but I do like the smell when there doing the hot tar part