Hoppe's #9 and Hoppe's elite gun cleaner ?

rebs · July 13, 2014, 08:09 AM

Has anyone compared these two ? Is one better than the other ? Is the #9 for cleaning the bore and the elite gun cleaner for the rest of the gun ?

skoro · July 15, 2014, 06:08 AM

I use #9 for most cleaning and it works well for my purposes. I use the Elite on nickeled finishes because the #9 can damage the copper underlay.

celem · July 15, 2014, 11:37 AM

Recently I bought a bottle of hoppes #9 semi auto. What I have noticed is that when I clean with the hoppes #9 semi auto the patches come out much, much blacker. The impression is that it is cleaning a lot more of something out of the barrel. I don't know if anyone has tested one vs the other but I would be interested in seeing some genuine test results.

July 13, 2014, 08:09 AM	#1
rebs Senior Member Join Date: January 10, 2012 Posts: 3,881	Hoppe's #9 and Hoppe's elite gun cleaner ? Has anyone compared these two ? Is one better than the other ? Is the #9 for cleaning the bore and the elite gun cleaner for the rest of the gun ?

July 15, 2014, 06:08 AM	#2
skoro Senior Member Join Date: April 30, 2008 Location: Texas Posts: 1,952	I use #9 for most cleaning and it works well for my purposes. I use the Elite on nickeled finishes because the #9 can damage the copper underlay.

July 15, 2014, 11:37 AM	#3
celem Junior Member Join Date: July 11, 2013 Posts: 12	Recently I bought a bottle of hoppes #9 semi auto. What I have noticed is that when I clean with the hoppes #9 semi auto the patches come out much, much blacker. The impression is that it is cleaning a lot more of something out of the barrel. I don't know if anyone has tested one vs the other but I would be interested in seeing some genuine test results.