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no offense taken; life is too short.

Gary,
are you talking about an old John Dickson from Scotland, or the modern turkish (?) Dickenson..?....there's alot of difference.
I wouldn't be buying ebony rods or crystal oil bottles for the latter..though you might need the screwdrivers.
franc

I make my own cleaning patches from cheap Walmart flannel. An hours time and you'll have a lifetime supply. I cut mine about 1 1/4" wide and 2 1/2" long (nothing precise here). Wet with Hoppes and wrap around bronze cleaning brush. Works far better than anything I've ever used. I dry with patches of paper shop towels cut to the same dimensions. Wooden rods are by far the best. To really clean out plastic fouling I have a bronze English brush mounted on a graphite cleaning rod and chucked in a hand drill. Spin it through the bore a couple times and that junk is gone!

A post that reviews good basics. is never bad advice. A set of precision ground s/drivers -- gunsmith's from Brownell's --- and the cleaning dis-assembly experience posted above, should prolly be a sticky for the board. Such an expanded post co-authored by the resident wisdom's would look pretty good in Dave's permanent 'stuff'.

Good thot, John.

For a classic cleaning set of goodies I would point you toward Beretta. I have a primo set of turn screws etc of theirs that has come to the rescue a few times.

That bit of advice about steel brushes of any kind cannot be mentioned often enough.

HOWEVERRRRR I never trust the habits of any previous owner and strip to the bones every gun I get. You only have to find one rust crumpled spring in a several $K gun to bring that home to you. But that might just be me.

have a day

Dr.WtS

Just wait until a bird flushes and he shoulders that John Dickson, after that he'll be buying the best of everything to clean and take care of it. I guarantee it.

1 Bronze bore brush
2 Bronze chamber brush
3 Wool mop (To apply bore protection of your choice after cleaning)
4 Wooden rods stay away from metal types (your choice of wood I use adapted one piece snooker cues)
5 Pipe cleaners for cleaning and lubricating the extractor hole
6 Bronze Jag if you can obtain one though Brass will do for cloth patches
7 The all important grease for the cross pin joint
And above all do the gun cleaning job properly by taking your time. Screw drivers can bring a world of trouble in the wrong hands!!!!!!!!!

Agree with all of the above, but I would add that so called Payne Gallwey pattern brushes are excellent and I use a fibre (rather than metal) Payne Gallwey brush to apply oil rather than a wool mop.

My shotgun is not a John Dickinson & Sons. It is a Turkish made shotgun imported by Cabelas and is a 16 gauge, English straight stock/splinter, DT, ejectors, with screw chokes.

I never use bore solvents. Years ago when cleaning many riot guns
in an armory we used 000 steel wool on wooden dowels chucked in a drill motor. I never measured any metal removal in the barrels. After another gun technician bought some Tornado Brushes and used them without any type of cleaner just a wipe out with oiled patch until clean. I started using this type of brush in my SXS older guns and have access to some very good bore micromerers. The results are fantastic dry scrub with tornado brush and wipe clean and lube with Ballistol and some grease on the hinge pins. If you do this after cleaning with a bristle brush you will find all the residue left and the bores will look better when you look through them.