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jhm Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1497 Location: georgia Joined: Sep 4^th, 2011	Hoppes #9 Oct 17^th, 2022 at 5:26pm	Print Post
	Just opened a bottle of Hoppes #9 barrel cleaner and that smell took me back probably 50 years. When my oldest brother bought his first "deer rifle" back in 1970 it was an old 98 Mauser in 30-06. Well he needed a cleaning kit so he bought an Outers kit (in the old red metal box) at our local Western Auto store and in it was a bottle of Hoppes #9. I can still remember the smell of that stuff when he would clean that old Mauser. Yea sometimes you senses can take you somewhere you haven't been in a long while... JMH


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 16159 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: Hoppes #9 Reply #1 - Oct 17^th, 2022 at 6:53pm	Print Post
	Just a drop behind each ear before a date and the gals will love you!

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4570mike Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 388 Location: On the Peninsula Joined: Apr 11^th, 2013	Re: Hoppes #9 Reply #2 - Oct 17^th, 2022 at 6:55pm	Print Post
	They should have put the aroma in an aftershave


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SSShooter Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2917 Location: Southern NJ Joined: Aug 1^st, 2010	Re: Hoppes #9 Reply #3 - Oct 17^th, 2022 at 7:03pm	Print Post
	Good stuff. I've always used #9 (since the late-50s - I'm old) and never been disappointed. I've started using their BP cleaning fluid and it works just as well on BP.

	Glenn - 2x CPA 44 1/2 w/22LR (Shilen ratchet-rifled & Bartlein 5R rifled), 38-40RH & 38-55WCF (Bartlein 5R rifled) & 40-65WCF (GrnMtn 'X') barrels
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Cat_Whisperer Frequent Elocutionist Offline No 1, 9.3x74R Posts: 3878 Location: Mountains of Virginia Joined: Apr 17^th, 2004	Re: Hoppes #9 Reply #4 - Oct 19^th, 2022 at 8:45pm	Print Post
	I have a 16 oz bottle of the 'old' stuff. Keeping it unopened like a bottle of fine wine.

	Cat Whisperer (trk) Chief of Smoke Pulaski Coehorn Works and Skunk Works Drafted May 1970, Retired Maj. U.S.Army assra #9885
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gnoahhh Oldtimer Offline Posts: 812 Location: Gaithersburg, MD Joined: Mar 31^st, 2010	Re: Hoppes #9 Reply #5 - Oct 19^th, 2022 at 9:29pm	Print Post
	Dump a bottle in your gas tank and it'll clean your fuel line, combustion chambers, and exhaust system. Or not, but you'll leave an odor trail down the road that'll bring every woman between 18 and 70 running after you. Probably every middle aged shooter too.


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RayH Oldtimer Offline ASSRA # 10880 Posts: 753 Location: Oldest City, FL Joined: Jan 4^th, 2012	Re: Hoppes #9 Reply #6 - Oct 20^th, 2022 at 7:48am	Print Post
	Sounds like Castrol R!

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Green_Frog Frequent Elocutionist Offline "It ain't easy being green" ASSRA Life #281 Posts: 4034 Location: Lynchburg, VA Joined: Apr 18^th, 2004	Re: Hoppes #9 Reply #7 - Oct 21^st, 2022 at 2:06pm	Print Post
	Yeah Ray, I miss the aroma of the old Castrol racing oil made from teal castor beans. At SCCA races 50 years ago you could tell the “professionals” from their smell! Back to Hope’s #9… does anyone know what was in the original formula? The smell of older bottles was totally different from what we get today. At an NRA meeting the rep at their booth asserted that they were still using the same formula as always, but the nose knows! I’m guessing they eliminated a carcinogen or something highly toxic. Froggie


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sureshot Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 301 Location: Snohomish Joined: May 27^th, 2007	Re: Hoppes #9 Reply #8 - Oct 21^st, 2022 at 2:56pm	Print Post
	Hatcher reported the analysis of Hoppes No 9, pre WW II to be Ammonium oleate 16% Neutral saponifiable oil 24% Nitro-benzine 6% Light mineral oil (kerosene) and amyl acetate 54% I think it was the nitro benzine that was taken out because of it being carcinogenic. Steve


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Kurt_701 Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1016 Location: Missouri Joined: May 20^th, 2004	Re: Hoppes #9 Reply #9 - Oct 21^st, 2022 at 4:18pm	Print Post
	Yes, the nitro benzine was taken out as a cancer agent. A fellow shooter who was a chemist by trade, carried a can of model airplane fuel ( nitro benzine) and would use a eye dropper to put it back to your bottle of Hoppes.

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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 16159 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: Hoppes #9 Reply #10 - Oct 21^st, 2022 at 5:28pm	Print Post
	At a estate sale a few years back, and sitting on a table were a half dozen brand new small bottles of old Hoppes #9 in the old boxes still! $.50 cents each, and I snatched them up quickly. Lady doing the sale asked me why I wanted all of them, and I just told her they were small bottles, so had to have all of them to do any good.

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condorsc Full Member Offline NRA Life/Benefactor, ASSRA, SCV Life Posts: 152 Location: Beaufort, S.C. Joined: Nov 13^th, 2021	Re: Hoppes #9 Reply #11 - Oct 25^th, 2022 at 1:40am	Print Post
	Thanks for the info, Kurt. A little research indicates they've evidently taken it out of airplane fuel too. However, you can buy it from some chemical suppliers. I keep a small can of the old GI bore cleaner for the express purpose of revisiting a few memories from my start, with the Springfield M2 .22, in an attic range on Ft. McClellan in 1957. Seems like freakin' yesterday. The pain from the sling just left me about two weeks ago.
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PeteG. Participating Member Offline Posts: 14 Location: Nebraska Joined: May 1^st, 2016	Re: Hoppes #9 Reply #12 - Nov 1^st, 2022 at 7:21pm	Print Post
	marlinguy wrote on Oct 17^th, 2022 at 6:53pm: Just a drop behind each ear before a date and the gals will love you! This works.... Ask me how I know.... Married her too!


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 16159 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: Hoppes #9 Reply #13 - Nov 2^nd, 2022 at 11:00am	Print Post
	The last few days I've spent reorganizing my gun/reloading room. I opened a storage box yesterday, and inside was some old collectible gun items. One of the things inside was a small glass bottle of Hoppe's #9 from way back when they were rectangle bottles, and clear, not brown! I thought it was cool, and likely why I had put it away for saving.

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oneatatime Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3897 Location: Rocky Mountains Joined: Oct 30^th, 2011	Re: Hoppes #9 Reply #14 - Nov 2^nd, 2022 at 12:26pm	Print Post
	Vall, no fair going neat on us!


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