Brushing the Barrel of a Springfield XD 9mm Handgun

Video Transcript

"Here we are with our barrel. It's been soaking in Break Free most of the day. We're just now going to clean the outside of the barrel. What I'm going to do is, this actually shows and you can see a little bit of wear, I'm not going to use my brass or my steel on my barrel, I'm going to use my stiff nylon brush here. I'm just going to stroke it, stroke this nylon brush, right across this barrel and all around. I'm going to make sure we get all the dust, dirt, grim, you know unburnt gun powder that gets fire formed on there, we're just going to scrub it up real nice. When that Break Free gets as much time to work as we've been able to give it. It really sets in and does what it needs to do by loosening up this stuff. It really can make your job with cleaning your firearm a lot easier when you use it that way. You know, if I were to only let that Break Free sit for five minutes, well the Break Free doesn't have enough time to really set into the dirt and grime to get it loose. By us letting it sit most of the day, we let it do its job which, in the end, only helps our job be a little bit easier. I'm just going to keep scrubbing around. Actually, everything is, that Break Free did a wonderful job. Alright. Then right here on the front of the barrel, on the top of the barrel here, these are areas that aren't going to get just so unbelievably dirty. What they're going to do is that's kind of where they're going to collect a little bit of dust. And other particulate matter that may be in the air wherever you may be in your sporting habitat. Alright! We got this barrel scrubbed up pretty good. What I'm going to do next, I'm just going to set this barrel down and I'm just going to move on to my slide. I'm just going to let these pieces sit still, even though I've scrubbed them."