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I love hoppes and use it to clean all my guns, but to do anything to those rings with hoppes I have had to use a stainless steel brush and scrub like mad. On my blued guns I just use a nylon brush with hoppes. Doesn't totally remove them but you can't really see it on a blued gun anyway
 
As Homer says, Hoppes #9 doesn't remove the rings. I too use #9 to clean all my guns. For the blast rings, I simply do a quick wipe with a patch and what doesn't come off 'stays' (no brushes required) ... blued or SS (way less than 10 seconds by the way ;) ). Hoppes #9 does NOT hurt the bluing. Hoppes is a solvent used to clean guns, so the whole revolver gets wiped down with it to remove/loosen any residue (blued or SS).
 
The gun cleaning mania shows an underlying disconnect with, and fear of, the elements of fire and brimstone that are the physical and spiritual bases of the non-socially subjugated animus of the firearm.
 
Precisely what I was thinking, but I was too reluctant to offend anybody by bringing it right out in the open. :)
Denis
 
The gun cleaning mania shows an underlying disconnect with, and fear of, the elements of fire and brimstone that are the physical and spiritual bases of the non-socially subjugated animus of the firearm.
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While others are of the type that always fought with their Mom, when told to clean up their room and put things away. If lucky, some gunnery sergeant set them straight, at least for a few years.
 
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My Revolvers get cleaned after use. Everything from the forcing cone to the rings on the front of the cylinder. I take the time it needs and I get them as spotless as possible. I don't care if others don't. I've been doing this since the 70s and don't intend to change.
 
Change or not, they who have their minds made up won't.

Some of us are just trying to explain to those who don't know any better that worrying about the rings, and the term "spotless", is pointless as far as proper maintenance goes. :)
Denis
 
These rings are on all of my revolvers too. I clean with solvent and don't worry about the rings. However I would bet that another remedy would be 0000 steel wool. It is very fine and soft and is actually used for polishing when blueing a gun. It would probably take it right off. It is also treated with oil so as not to rust. It would likely take very little effort. Then again maybe not since I haven't actually tried it.

Having read some of the other posts on this subject it seems to me that some out there have gotten just a little too serious about this.
 
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Change or not, they who have their minds made up won't.

Some of us are just trying to explain to those who don't know any better that worrying about the rings, and the term "spotless", is pointless as far as proper maintenance goes.
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You go first.;)

Removing rings is not about "proper maintenance" but rather more about how the stainless gun looks, as in "dirty".
 
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And driving a dirty car has nothing to do with performance, and get most if us don't do that either. I never got the aversion to
Cleaning the rings. 10 seconds at most with a lead away cloth and they're gone. Why would you leave them on? Is it the "my gun is a working man's gun" syndrom?
 
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