Favorite gun smells

[Bullshop Junior]

What's your favorite gun related smells.

Mine...probably Hoppys #9 And the smell of a freshly fired shotgun shell.

[dragon813gt]

Burnt gun powder and Hopped #9. I absolutely hate the smell of Ballistol but it's function outweighs my hatred.

[cummins05]

hoppes #9 you know they make air fresheners with that smell

[Freightman]

Real Black Powder!

[Bullshop Junior]

SWMBO hates when I pop open a bottle of #9 but it is one of my favorite smells in the world

[Smoke4320]

Jim Shockeys BP substitute .. Means either I am sighting in or a deer is on the ground :)
followed by Shooters Choice ..

[EMC45]

Kroil, paper hull shotshells after firing, CLP, burning IMR-4895, black powder burning.

[crowbuster]

Dang, you guys took all the good ones. Wifes dad was a big trap shooter. she loves the smell of hoppes more than me. I am a lucky guy.

[ACrowe25]

Eezox

[Doc_Stihl]

Carnuba Red

[wallenba]

hoppes #9 you know they make air fresheners with that smell

Just saw that today... here > http://www.brownells.com/gunsmith-tools-supplies/shop-accessories-supplies/air-freshener/hoppe-s-9-air-freshener-prod44794.aspx

[osteodoc08]

Hoppe's #9, Freshly shot shotgun shell, leather, Kroil, freshly opened can of powder, LBT Blue Commercial (smells like crayons), WD-40, Im sure there are others I'm forgetting.

[fouronesix]

Yep, Hoppes 9 or the acrid smell of fired shotshell smoke held in the damp, early dawn stillness.

[Cmm_3940]

I guess we all like Hoppes #9...

[bhn22]

50/50 bullet lube. Specifically Lees. I keep a stick around just for nose hits.

[wlc]

freshly fired shotshell, speed green when I'm cooking it up or melting it for pan lubing, hoppes #9. The smell of #9 is one of my sensitive nosed wife's favorite smells. WD-40 is pretty good as well.

[Bullshop Junior]

freshly fired shotshell, speed green when I'm cooking it up or melting it for pan lubing, hoppes #9. The smell of #9 is one of my sensitive nosed wife's favorite smells. WD-40 is pretty good as well.

I've been waiting for someone to say speed green.

[Blammer]

chocolate chip cookies, fresh baked, usually coming back from the range my wife has some cooking. :)

[osteodoc08]

chocolate chip cookies, fresh baked, usually coming back from the range my wife has some cooking. :)

That's a might fine wife. Mines pretty good about the little things like that too.

She did have dinner cooked last time I went out for an evening shoot. I guess I'm pretty darned lucky too. I might have to stop and get her some flowers on the way home from work.

[dagger dog]

Randy Rats beeswax, Hoppes #9, Kroil, and like BSJ, fresh fired shotgun shells.


BreakFree CLP could gag a maggot !

[wlc]

I've been waiting for someone to say speed green.
Yea, I love the smell of beeswax anyway, but something about adding the bull plate makes it smell even better to me.

[zuke]

WWII Gi bore solvent. I cleaned a lotta bore's with that stuff.
ALOX in stick form.
Bee's wax

[shdwlkr]

Since you asked the smell of lots of black powder from a few cannons going off

The smell of a 155 battery going off in rapid succession for a hour or more.

Yes the smell of hoppe's and kroil and acetone are ok but the first two are also

[bbs70]

97715

[C. Latch]

My grandfather taught me to appreciate the smell of IMR 4895, surplus GI bore cleaner, and #9.

[Grendl]

Call me strange but the smell of a dirty shotgun and a damp Labrador retriever at the end of a good day's hunt.

[762 shooter]

WW231, spring rain, inside of puppy ears, cooking chuck roast, hickory smoke, Unique, fresh cut pine.
762

[DeanWinchester]

Cosmoline. It's the smell of a new [old] toy.
I always liked the smell of heated cosmoline. I was first introduced to the smell at Knob Creek. Ohh what a smell it is.

[CastingFool]

I love the smell of freshly fired shotshells, and since others have mentioned other smells, I can say one of my favorites is freshly ground coffee! Hoppe's #9 is a good one, too!

[snuffy]

Best is the freshly fired winchester paper shotshell, 20 Ga. to be exact! The wisp of smoke curling up outa that empty shell my dad had just fired. Oh to smell that again and to stand next to him again. I'd be asking "can I shoot it now dad? It would have been 58 years ago +- a year or two.

Yeah Hoppes #9 is a close second, but Kroil makes me sick. Eezox is a nice sweet smell as well.

[btroj]

Freshly fired shotgun smell. Period

[bear67]

Hoppes #9, fresh coffee, real vanilla, hot yeast bread just out of the oven. I also love the smell of spent shotgun shells and think the old paper ones smelled best. I have a few boxes, but save them to maybe show a great grandson what they missed.

I used to tell my daughters when they started to date years ago that the way to get a boy worth a hoot was to use vanilla behind their ears on the first date and #9 on the second. If he responded positively to both, he probably would suit their Dad as a suitor.

[mac60]

Best is the freshly fired winchester paper shotshell, 20 Ga. to be exact! The wisp of smoke curling up outa that empty shell my dad had just fired. Oh to smell that again and to stand next to him again. I'd be asking "can I shoot it now dad? It would have been 58 years ago +- a year or two.

Yeah Hoppes #9 is a close second, but Kroil makes me sick. Eezox is a nice sweet smell as well.

+1 - A freshly fired paper hull shotshell. Brings up a lot of good memories.

[freebullet]

Smokepole nuff said.

[str8shot426]

SWMBO hates when I pop open a bottle of #9 but it is one of my favorite smells in the world

I seen hoppes air fresheners at my local gun shop!

[upr45]

Freshly burnt Reloader-7!

[Iowa Fox]

Nice old original Winchesters

[labradigger1]

I wasnt aware there was a bad smell asscociated with a gun,
#9, rem oil, gi bore cleaner, wd-40, leather straps, bullet lube and probably my most favorite of all, the first day in fall that you smell the oak leaves as they are drying, you know its time to start packing the guns out.
As a second, maybe first as well, the look in my yellow labs eyes on september 1'st every year when he sees me pull the sp-10 out of the cabinet, i swear he knows that gun. Something about hunting with a good dog. Maybe a new thread ?
Lab

[wis40]

Gotta go with the freshly fired ANY weapon! Oh and fresh baked REAL bread.

[Tonto]

Fresh fired 22lr smoke and Hoppes #9, the 22smell jars my memory of early shooting outings

[Bullshop Junior]

I seen hoppes air fresheners at my local gun shop!

Gonna have to find on for my truck.

[Alberta woodsman]

WD-40 and there ain't nothin more addicting than shooting a smoke pole on a cool morning!

Woodsman

[catmandu]

The smell I wish I could smell again is the powder smell from 22LR from the 70's. Olin I think.
Ed's Red in the shop is real nice.
Always liked the smell across the firing line during rapid fire.

The smell when you open the gun safe, like you're in good company.

Paul in WNY

[ph4570]

Many of my favorites are taken. How about a freshly sanded stock during a restoration.

[bhn22]

I do have to agree with paper shotshells.

[LuckySavage]

3-in-1 oil. Dad used it on all his guns, and his gun closet always smelled like it. That smell said hunting for me and my brother. I still use 3-in-1 on his Western Field 12 ga.

[country gent]

Hoppes #9 is a old stand by it scent hasnt changed since I can remember. Melted cosmoline ( means another set of gages are done at work and ready for the next Job also) Leather with a light coat of minks oil worked into it, A fresh walnut stock, Beeswax, rig grease, The scent of a early spring morning, All of these scents bring back many memories. The scent I miss the most is the essence of my wifes Hair.

[sawzall]

Mine used to be #9 as well, it's what I grew up with and used exclusively as an adult. Then I bought a used CZ858 and when it arrived it smelled good enough to eat! I emailed the seller and found out it was G96. Now I use it too! My new favorite smell!

[sidecarmike]

I think mine is a combination of gun oil and gun powder. My favorite smell is when I pop open a freshly fired double barreled shotgun. No other gun smells as sweet. I imagine heaven will smell just like that.

[blaser.306]

G-96 gun treatment! Smells like a gun show!! Or back in the day , there was a guy that did all the gun shows and then it smelled of colt pistols and good cigars. Almost forgot, The smell of my favorite trap gun being opened and the fine smell of clays powder on a humid summer morn.And one thing that all you in the US probably can't relate to , old high brass Imperial shotshells early in the day from a goose blind ! They had a sweet smell all their own.

[Ozarki]

Burned gun powder on a misty morning, and hopes #9

[John Allen]

Hoppes #9 and that smell you get from a blackpowder cartridge gun, stinky but still brings a smile to my face.

[MOcaster]

IMR 4350 and TAC1. I don't know why I like 4350 but TAC1 smells like honey:grin:!

[CGT80]

Carnuba Red

Yes................When in my loading room, I would pop the cap off a tube of Cred and just take a big whiff. I don't know what is in it, but I like it. I bought some one pound bricks of Cred, but they don't have as strong of a smell. Cred makes the boolits look purdy and smell purdy :grin:

[Sweetpea]

Burnt nitrocellulose, and Eezox!

[Bzcraig]

#9 and Alox but Sat I got all teary eyed. After shooting with wife and daughter, the daughter (40) stuck her nose in the pile of empty brass and said to me "is this sick........that smells soooo good." She still knows how to get to dad.

[Rooster59]

Just-fired Fiocchi pheasant loads, bird dogs in gamma grass, George Dickel on the rocks, and pheasant stew. In that order.

[shootmore]

The smell of gun powder either burned or fresh opened can

[retread]

#9 and Alox but Sat I got all teary eyed. After shooting with wife and daughter, the daughter (40) stuck her nose in the pile of empty brass and said to me "is this sick........that smells soooo good." She still knows how to get to dad.

You are a lucky man.

For me it is #9 and paper shotshells and the smell of the old oil fired cookstove in the duck shack we had when I was a kid.

[Boyscout]

Hoppes #9, Leather holsters, Break Free.

[Col4570]

Linseed Oil mixed with Alkanhet Root finished with Terebin Driers.An aromatic delight plus a visual experiencehttp://i1052.photobucket.com/albums/s452/livebattery/002-13.jpg (http://s1052.photobucket.com/user/livebattery/media/002-13.jpg.html).

[captaint]

Guess I'm boring. Just gimme the Hoppes 9 and my nose is happy. Wouldn't change a thing about that smell. Mike

[6bg6ga]

Hoppes #9 makes a good after shave

[danomano]

I know it has been said but.. hand loaded paper hull shot shells after firing.

[shooterg]

The smell of mixed ball and stick powder right after a full relay of CMP or NRA High Power rapid fire stage. Gotta love the smell of gunpowder in the morning !

[HATCH]

This is gun related sort of....
I like the smell of the inside of a 30cal ammo can when you first get them.
I don't know what it is but when I open the can for the first time it has a smell.

[Gar]

Just love the smell of a fresh can of IMR powder!

[9w1911]

Just love the smell of a fresh can of IMR powder!--haha me too!!!
also I love the smell of burnt 231

[northern smith]

i was brougt up shooting the "old" swedish mauser whith its original ammo, the powder was made at bofors. some times at the range i can still come to a halt and really feel the smell. paper shot shells are also fine, me and a friend ordered a box of papershells they will bee delivered this summer. they will be loaded whith real black which is another obsession..

[Bullshop Junior]

This thread has become more popular then I expected it to.

Another one I like. Meat. Fresh, right off the bone and thrown on a fire with a little salt.

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

Hoppes #9 use to be my fav...before I started casting and hanging out at castboolits.com.

Any boolit lube made with Randyrat's Beeswax is #1

#2 would be, NOW that I've learned how to make my own CLP, I love the smell of Ed's Red made with turpentine.

Hoppes is now #3

[bbs70]

#9 and Alox but Sat I got all teary eyed. After shooting with wife and daughter, the daughter (40) stuck her nose in the pile of empty brass and said to me "is this sick........that smells soooo good." She still knows how to get to dad.


Several years ago I was in the ( My man cave ) garage casting boolits and my 40 yr old daughter came over walked into garage and saw what I was doing.
She stood there and watched and then said the melted lead and silver stream was beautiful.
So much so she forgot why she had come over to talk to my wife.

[bbs70]

Fresh cut pine & fresh cut sugar maple.
As a kid I always liked the clean, light, fresh smell of summer after a light rain, wish I could get that back.
But too many years have passed & my sniffer isn't what it use to be.

[gwpercle]

The smell of a freshly fired PAPER shotgun shell, plastic just don't smell the same. I think the waxed cardboard shell adds to the aroma. Before I was old enough to carry a shotgun I would follow behind my Daddy and pick up all the 16 ga. shells he fired while hunting rabbits, put the shells in a cigar box and keep them....till Mom discovered my hoarding and we had an intervention.

I miss the days when paper shells were cheaper than those new fangled plastic hulled thing's

Pine and cedar wood shavings tossed into a melting pot of bullet metal and then add a tiny bit of beeswax because it adds to the heady aroma.

Gary

[Bullshop Junior]

I got some of Randy's beeswax today. Another to add to my favorite list.

[jjsharpshooter]

CLP , every time I smell it brings back old memories of my time in the Coast Guard.

[David2011]

Good thread! My favorite smells are mostly from when I was a kid- early '60s. Is it just me or does .22 not smell as god as it did back then? I used to love the smell of freshly fired .22. I liked the paper shotgun shells, too, before they invented plastic ones. Hoppes #9 is always a favorite. "They" say smell is a very powerful way to be taken back to old memories. I agree.

David

[Rattlesnake Charlie]

A freshly fired paper shotshell with the feathers of a cock pheasant still settling to earth on a crisp autumn morning that still has a little frost still on the ground.

[Bullshop Junior]

I ran into a little back woods gun store today looking for powder. No powder but picked up some oooold 20ga paper shells for 4 bucks a box

[Clay M]

I like the smell of stainless steel, but really prefer the smell of guitars.

[Recluse]

G-96 gun treatment! Smells like a gun show!!

Toss up which I like more--G96 or Hoppes #9. Give me some Hoppes while cleaning up a freshly fired .22LR and it can bring back memories for 45+ years ago in a nano-second.

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=97880&d=1393383996

But G96 is hard to beat. Great stuff.

:coffee:

[Alchemist]

hoppes #9 you know they make air fresheners with that smell

Really? Where might a guy get some of those.

Also like the smell of boolit lube, CLP, even Ballistol in a twisted sort of way...(it stinks so good).

[LUBEDUDE]

hoppes #9 you know they make air fresheners with that smell

I was so excited when those came out years ago. I think I was their first pigeon. It lasted a whole day! Ok, I exaggerate, two days! What a gyp!

But it all worked out. For the same price of the freshner, I had the cap come off of a 4oz bottle in the back seat of the truck.

That was good for 9-10 months. On real hot days you can still smell it years later.

The real McCoy beats an air freshner anyday!

Smells like....... Victory!

[smokeywolf]

Grew up with the smell of Hoppe's #9. I think I must have been smelling that, harness leather and horse sweat about the same time I started smelling the baby powder being sprinkled on my butt.
For the last 3 years, I've also come to like the smell of G96.

smokeywolf

[Jr.]

Break free and any fresh burned powder

[snaketail]

The smell of burned powder from an old Winchester .22LR on a crisp fall morning. That smell brings back good memories.
I shoot Wolf now and the smell just isn't the same.

[Clay M]

I always like the smell of 2400 burning. I remember it from the days my dad took me out to shoot with him back in the 60's

[sidecarmike]

98396

Enough Said! Every time I pop one open, I remember the first time I fired the single shot Stevens 20 gauge. I bought from the neighbor kid for something like $10 or $15 dollars when I was around 13 or so. I love that smell.

[Garyshome]

The NEW gun smell!

[bear67]

Lube dude said he spilled #9 in his back seat--maybe the solution is to just pour an ounce in the carpet every once in a while. Wait a minute, I hate carpet in don't have carpet in my trucks. I buy fleet trucks to get around the carpet and leather fancy seat covers. Maybe just spill it in the seat, my back seat is usually just additional tool or gun storage.

True tale, but not a gun smell. I cook with several Dutch Oven cooking groups and have done cooking demos all over. Several years ago I was doing a bread cooking demo down south and was driving my one ton. Needed sourdough starter so I fed the crock and packed it in the passenger floorboard with other supplies so it would not tip over (I thought). Had to make an emergency stop when someone pulled out in front of me. The crock dumped most of its contents in the vinyl floor mats and ran under to the padding. When it was warm, or humid and the windows rolled up, you could smell the natural yeast for a couple years. Was pulling one of the goosenecks with this truck last fall and thought that maybe I should spill some more sourdough starter in the floor--might cover the smell of cow manure tracked in.

[Dframe]

50/50 bullet lube. Specifically Lees. I keep a stick around just for nose hits.

You beat me to it. Sure gotta agree with you on this one.

[DCM]

Burnt gunpowder! Smells like freeedom!

[Ed1]

hoppes #9 for sure

[Bullshop Junior]

Marvels mystery oil smells good too.

[rexherring]

The old Federal paper hull 12 guage when shooting pheasants.

[garandnutts]

Hoppes 9, Federal paper shells(fired), a fresh can of Varget, nitro methane burnt in a Rolls-Royce V-12(hydroplane motor), 80/87 avgas, burning kerosene from a jet engine and the smell of my shop when I tig weld....wood smoke in the forest on opening day of deer season.....