What does Hoppe's #9 smell like? - Page 2

biere · January 31, 2002, 02:28 AM

It is distinctive enough I have never smelled anything even close to it. I work with lots of chemicals and spray stuff, mechanic, and have to say I am tempted to use hoppes as an air freshner after some of the ozone safe junk that is now on the market for brake cleaning and what not.

Course I still have a case or two of evil cleaners from a while back.

SpazzTrap · January 31, 2002, 02:33 AM

#9 smells awesome. Right up there with Original Old Spice aftershave, and the smell of a vintage tube guitar amp that has been played hard for over an hour.

pdmoderator · January 31, 2002, 02:43 PM

Or a Tektronix 535 scope at midnight...

Or 90-weight hypoid gear oil...

Or a freshly lit Cohiba...

Yeah. The finer things in life.

Amazing how you can get attached to certain smells, isn't it?

I guess I'll spring for a bottle of Hoppe's #9.

- pdmoderator

(P.S. Personally, I disagree about the Old Spice

)

glock glockler · January 31, 2002, 02:57 PM

Hippies smell like a combination of BO, week old falafel, marijuana smoke, and general stupidity.

Oh wait, you said Hoppes, sorry, can't help you there.

Indy_SIG · January 31, 2002, 03:00 PM

Quote:

Like all of my most cherished memories of a childhood spent hunting and shooting.

Amen.

Steely - I think you're on to something with the banana oil. I can remember my dad, uncle and others talking about the "banana oil" they used to clean their guns during WW II and how the smell of Hoppe's reminded them of it.

Coronach · January 31, 2002, 03:56 PM

1. Yes, Breugger, like victory. Curse you, you stole my (rather obvious) joke. But it only smells that way in the morning

2. Smell is the stongest memory-evoking sense. It is a verifiable psychological fact that the sense of smell is strongly related to memory. That is why the perfume your first girlfriend wore can still make your heart skip a beat (or three).

3. This reminds me of the old Police Academy movies, where Tackleberry is getting ready to go on a date:

Steve Gutenberg: "Whats that you're putting on? Cologne?"

Tackleberry: "Naw, gun oil."

Mike

Sisco · January 31, 2002, 04:14 PM

Here's an idea. Take one of those tree-shaped car air freshners, soak it in Hoppes. It might remind you of cleaning guns in the woods after the hunt.

Bogie · January 31, 2002, 05:01 PM

Excuse me, Glockish, but _THIS_ hippie tends to smell like either a cigar or a pipe, and not a lot of other crap, since I tend to bathe early and often, given the chance...

Hoppes smells, at least to me, like it doesn't work. Sorry, but if I'm cleaning a rifle, I want something that will cut the copper...

(then again, the wiseass in me wants to say "I love the smell of Hoppes in the morning... it smells like... victory!"

Carbon_15 · February 1, 2002, 02:27 AM

I always likes the smell of the old formula break-free. It kinda smelled like a fresh box of band-aids. For some reason it smelled classy and elegant to me. unfortuantly, my last bottle ran out a while back and the new stuff dosnt smell like that anymore..just smells like regular old oil now. oh well, Wilson ultima-lube works better anyway, i only used it because I liked the smell.

Tom Matiska · February 1, 2002, 08:39 AM

Smells like kerosene and ammonia(and for a good reason). Something about the way the two compliment each other.

Tom

bdhawk · February 1, 2002, 12:11 PM

much better than #8.

seriously, i don't particuarly like the smell of hoppe's #9. yet, it always seems to be a symbolic smell that brings up pleasent memories of shooting over the years. i love the smell of a gun shop that has the smell of gun oil and hoppes #9 (and years ago, pipe tobacco) it is a sensory reminder that i am in a place i like to be in.

Long Path · February 1, 2002, 01:44 PM

Good ole' yellow-label Hoppe's is still a standby for my shotgun and pistol cleaning needs, being just the right amount of solvent for my average powder-and-lead-removal.

It smells like old Saturday and Sunday afternoons, sitting at the knees of men, amidst too much tobacco smoke and coffee and retold stories, while guns are handed back and forth and big plans are made.

BTW, Bogie, Hoppe's also makes an excellent copper solvent that has a black and gold label, and which I use for my rifle cleaning needs. It's nowhere near as lovely-smelling, but that amonia gets out the copper really well. Compare to 7.62 Sweet's. (be sure to wash your brushes off after, though!)

**Bud Helms** · February 1, 2002, 07:38 PM

A lot like Hoppe's #10

RBK · February 1, 2002, 08:32 PM

"It smells like old Saturday and Sunday afternoons, sitting at the knees of men, amidst too much tobacco smoke and coffee and retold stories, while guns are handed back and forth and big plans are made. "

You're right on the money, man!

Rovert · February 1, 2002, 11:52 PM

PDM, if you're really curious, swing down to ShoreShot on Saturday, and I'll let you inhale some of mine.

And if you REALLY behave yourself, I'll let you take a sniff on my Macintosh 2150.

Crimper-D · February 2, 2002, 12:07 AM

And I don't like bananas! Haven't used the stuff in over 25 years, I'm a G-96 fan, it smells like my $ going By-Bye

fed168 · February 2, 2002, 03:44 AM

Smells alot better than Sweets. It's the nectar of the gods.

notbubba · February 2, 2002, 04:06 AM

I guess I'm standing alone over in the "Hoppe's #9 Stinks" line.

But, I don't have childhood memories of cleaning guns.
I also think cleaning guns is a pain in the behind.

I hope you don't think I'm a bad person.

**Bud Helms** · February 2, 2002, 05:38 PM

Bad. BAD! You are not bubba. Bad!

mussi · February 2, 2002, 07:18 PM

Smells to me like military service. Back being corporal, we once had an outing with SIG 510s and 550s, and I intensively fired mine on full-auto, burning through some 2500 rounds in one day. Back at the camp, we took apart the guns, gave every barrel a good brush-up with some solvent oil (Motorex Gun Care if you bother asking), and then, I took my grease brush, dipped in Hoppes, and went through every 7.5 mm barrel and generously pulled a Hoppes number on every one. They came out quite clean afterwards.

I still admire the poor guy who decided cleaning receivers was more fun.

BigC · February 2, 2002, 10:04 PM

Home.

Elizabeth Petersen · February 3, 2002, 03:19 AM

[sniff...sniff...]

Ahhhhhh...

Scent makes me think of my man after he's spent a day at the range.

Gunpowder and Hoppes #9. Whoooooo...

Oh my, I gotta go now.

pdmoderator · February 3, 2002, 06:58 AM

...but the shop was all out. They said that it's difficult to find. Uncle Mike's bought Hoppe's and were busily putting their own label on the bottles.

So I bought some Breakfree CLP instead. For now.

- pdmoderator

7th Fleet · February 3, 2002, 10:44 PM

I think that the smell of Hoppe's No. 9 is much nicer than the most expensive French perfume. My wife of course disagrees.

7th

January 31, 2002, 02:33 AM	#27
SpazzTrap Senior Member Join Date: October 8, 2000 Location: Cincinnati Posts: 467	#9 smells awesome. Right up there with Original Old Spice aftershave, and the smell of a vintage tube guitar amp that has been played hard for over an hour. __________________ "Great Spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds..." -Albert Einstein Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms...sounds like my bachelor party.

January 31, 2002, 02:43 PM	#28
pdmoderator Registration in progress Join Date: November 6, 2001 Location: New Jersey Posts: 1,202	The smell of a fine tube amp Or a Tektronix 535 scope at midnight... Or 90-weight hypoid gear oil... Or a freshly lit Cohiba... Yeah. The finer things in life. Amazing how you can get attached to certain smells, isn't it? I guess I'll spring for a bottle of Hoppe's #9. - pdmoderator (P.S. Personally, I disagree about the Old Spice ) __________________ Give up no state. Give up no ground.

January 31, 2002, 03:56 PM	#31
Coronach Senior Member Join Date: March 25, 1999 Posts: 3,147	1. Yes, Breugger, like victory. Curse you, you stole my (rather obvious) joke. But it only smells that way in the morning 2. Smell is the stongest memory-evoking sense. It is a verifiable psychological fact that the sense of smell is strongly related to memory. That is why the perfume your first girlfriend wore can still make your heart skip a beat (or three). 3. This reminds me of the old Police Academy movies, where Tackleberry is getting ready to go on a date: Steve Gutenberg: "Whats that you're putting on? Cologne?" Tackleberry: "Naw, gun oil." Mike __________________ The axe bites into the door, ripping a hole in one panel. The maniac puts his face into the hole, cackling gleefully, "Here's Johnny...erk." "And here's Smith and Wesson," murmurs Coronach, Mozambiquing six rounds of .357 into the critter at a range of three feet. -Lawdog "True pacifism is the finest form of manliness. But if a man comes up to you and cuts your hand off, you don't just offer him the other one. Not if you want to go on playing the piano, you don't." -Sam Peckinpah "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." -Robert Heinlein

January 31, 2002, 04:14 PM	#32
Sisco Senior Member Join Date: March 25, 1999 Location: KS Posts: 1,558	Here's an idea. Take one of those tree-shaped car air freshners, soak it in Hoppes. It might remind you of cleaning guns in the woods after the hunt. __________________ "I don't mind it when stupid people say stupid things. Stupid people should be encouraged to say stupid things, that way we always know who the stupid people are." ~ Ted Nugent http://www.awbansunset.com/awcountdown_sm.gif

January 31, 2002, 05:01 PM	#33
Bogie Senior Member Join Date: June 5, 2000 Location: Job hunting on the road... Posts: 3,827	Excuse me, Glockish, but _THIS_ hippie tends to smell like either a cigar or a pipe, and not a lot of other crap, since I tend to bathe early and often, given the chance... Hoppes smells, at least to me, like it doesn't work. Sorry, but if I'm cleaning a rifle, I want something that will cut the copper... (then again, the wiseass in me wants to say "I love the smell of Hoppes in the morning... it smells like... victory!" __________________ Job hunting, but helping a friend out at www.vikingmachineusa.com - and learning the finer aspects of becoming a precision machinist. And making the world's greatest bottle openers!

January 31, 2002, 02:28 AM	#26
biere Senior Member Join Date: December 15, 2001 Location: tn Posts: 504	It is distinctive enough I have never smelled anything even close to it. I work with lots of chemicals and spray stuff, mechanic, and have to say I am tempted to use hoppes as an air freshner after some of the ozone safe junk that is now on the market for brake cleaning and what not. Course I still have a case or two of evil cleaners from a while back.

January 31, 2002, 02:57 PM	#29
glock glockler Senior Member Join Date: April 29, 2000 Location: Portsmouth, NH, USA Posts: 905	Hippies smell like a combination of BO, week old falafel, marijuana smoke, and general stupidity. Oh wait, you said Hoppes, sorry, can't help you there.

February 1, 2002, 02:27 AM	#34
Carbon_15 Senior Member Join Date: October 8, 2001 Location: Lexington, SC Posts: 938	I always likes the smell of the old formula break-free. It kinda smelled like a fresh box of band-aids. For some reason it smelled classy and elegant to me. unfortuantly, my last bottle ran out a while back and the new stuff dosnt smell like that anymore..just smells like regular old oil now. oh well, Wilson ultima-lube works better anyway, i only used it because I liked the smell.

February 1, 2002, 08:39 AM	#35
Tom Matiska Senior Member Join Date: April 12, 2000 Location: Wilkes-Barre, Pa Posts: 1,029	Smells like kerosene and ammonia(and for a good reason). Something about the way the two compliment each other. Tom

February 1, 2002, 12:11 PM	#36
bdhawk Junior member Join Date: December 22, 2000 Posts: 114	smell of hoppe's #9 much better than #8. seriously, i don't particuarly like the smell of hoppe's #9. yet, it always seems to be a symbolic smell that brings up pleasent memories of shooting over the years. i love the smell of a gun shop that has the smell of gun oil and hoppes #9 (and years ago, pipe tobacco) it is a sensory reminder that i am in a place i like to be in.

February 1, 2002, 01:44 PM	#37
Long Path Senior Member Join Date: May 31, 1999 Location: N. Texas Posts: 5,899	Good ole' yellow-label Hoppe's is still a standby for my shotgun and pistol cleaning needs, being just the right amount of solvent for my average powder-and-lead-removal. It smells like old Saturday and Sunday afternoons, sitting at the knees of men, amidst too much tobacco smoke and coffee and retold stories, while guns are handed back and forth and big plans are made. BTW, Bogie, Hoppe's also makes an excellent copper solvent that has a black and gold label, and which I use for my rifle cleaning needs. It's nowhere near as lovely-smelling, but that amonia gets out the copper really well. Compare to 7.62 Sweet's. (be sure to wash your brushes off after, though!) __________________ "Welcome to The Firing Line, a virtual community dedicated to the discussion and advancement of responsible firearms ownership."T.F.L. Policy Page Will you, too, be one who stands in the gap? ____________

February 1, 2002, 07:38 PM	#38
Bud Helms Senior Member Join Date: December 31, 1999 Location: Middle Georgia, USA Posts: 13,198	A lot like Hoppe's #10

February 1, 2002, 08:32 PM	#39
RBK Registration in progress Join Date: September 26, 2000 Location: East TN Posts: 352	Long Path... "It smells like old Saturday and Sunday afternoons, sitting at the knees of men, amidst too much tobacco smoke and coffee and retold stories, while guns are handed back and forth and big plans are made. " You're right on the money, man! __________________ "Trust but Verify" --Ronald Reagan

February 1, 2002, 11:52 PM	#40
Rovert Senior Member Join Date: October 6, 2001 Posts: 824	PDM, if you're really curious, swing down to ShoreShot on Saturday, and I'll let you inhale some of mine. And if you REALLY behave yourself, I'll let you take a sniff on my Macintosh 2150. __________________ "Following the path of least resistance is what makes rivers, and men, crooked."

February 2, 2002, 12:07 AM	#41
Crimper-D Senior Member Join Date: July 26, 2001 Location: The Bearflag Republic Posts: 579	Smells Like Banana Oil!... And I don't like bananas! Haven't used the stuff in over 25 years, I'm a G-96 fan, it smells like my $ going By-Bye __________________ "It is evident that scepticism, while it makes no actual change in a man, always makes him feel better.".....H.L.Mencken

February 2, 2002, 03:44 AM	#42
fed168 Senior Member Join Date: March 15, 2000 Posts: 1,040	Smells alot better than Sweets. It's the nectar of the gods.

February 2, 2002, 04:06 AM	#43
notbubba Senior Member Join Date: January 30, 2001 Location: Jackson Michigan Posts: 790	I guess I'm standing alone over in the "Hoppe's #9 Stinks" line. But, I don't have childhood memories of cleaning guns. I also think cleaning guns is a pain in the behind. I hope you don't think I'm a bad person. __________________ www.mcrgo.org Michigan Coalition For Responsible Gun Owners

February 2, 2002, 05:38 PM	#44
Bud Helms Senior Member Join Date: December 31, 1999 Location: Middle Georgia, USA Posts: 13,198	Bad. BAD! You are not bubba. Bad!

February 2, 2002, 07:18 PM	#45
mussi Senior Member Join Date: January 17, 2000 Location: Berne, Switzerland Posts: 757	Smells to me like military service. Back being corporal, we once had an outing with SIG 510s and 550s, and I intensively fired mine on full-auto, burning through some 2500 rounds in one day. Back at the camp, we took apart the guns, gave every barrel a good brush-up with some solvent oil (Motorex Gun Care if you bother asking), and then, I took my grease brush, dipped in Hoppes, and went through every 7.5 mm barrel and generously pulled a Hoppes number on every one. They came out quite clean afterwards. I still admire the poor guy who decided cleaning receivers was more fun.

February 2, 2002, 10:04 PM	#46
BigC Junior Member Join Date: January 26, 2002 Location: Mesquite Texas Posts: 9	Home.

February 3, 2002, 03:19 AM	#47
Elizabeth Petersen Senior Member Join Date: March 6, 2001 Location: Utah Posts: 571	[sniff...sniff...] Ahhhhhh... Scent makes me think of my man after he's spent a day at the range. Gunpowder and Hoppes #9. Whoooooo... Oh my, I gotta go now. __________________ March all you want, sister. This mom prefers to protect her children with a 12 gauge. Vulnus pectoris sugens ne properetis mos naturae dicendi est Ask me about my Hemingway Death Wish. I dare you.

February 3, 2002, 06:58 AM	#48
pdmoderator Registration in progress Join Date: November 6, 2001 Location: New Jersey Posts: 1,202	Well, I tried to buy some yesterday... ...but the shop was all out. They said that it's difficult to find. Uncle Mike's bought Hoppe's and were busily putting their own label on the bottles. So I bought some Breakfree CLP instead. For now. - pdmoderator __________________ Give up no state. Give up no ground.

February 3, 2002, 10:44 PM	#49
7th Fleet Senior Member Join Date: January 28, 2000 Posts: 1,469	I think that the smell of Hoppe's No. 9 is much nicer than the most expensive French perfume. My wife of course disagrees. 7th __________________ SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL POLICE, KEEP THEM INDEPENDENT.