Maintaining Your Gear: Cleaning and Storage Tips for Longevity

Cleaning, maintaining and storing your tactical, hunting and sporting gear is essential to ensuring they perform at their maximum efficiency. The team at Badlands is passionate about the outdoors, and we understand how to ensure your equipment lasts for many years. In this article, we outline some essential steps you can take to ensure all your sporting, hunting and tactical equipment remains usable. Contact one of our friendly team today, or visit our website for a look at our extensive range of cleaning tools, with shipping to Sydney, South Australia, Victoria and Queensland

Maintaining, Storing and Cleaning Hunting Gear

Tactical, sporting and hunting gear maintenance is vital to ensure longevity.

Where You’re Storing Outdoor Equipment

Find a location with minimal risk of damage to your expensive hunting gear. Things to consider include:

• Secure from thieves
• Free from moisture, heat or cold damage
• Clean and dust-free
• Free from insects or pests
• Easily accessible
• In compliance with all legal requirements

Keep All Your Gear Together

It’s common for hunting equipment to scatter around your home during times of high use. Storing outdoor equipment together and keeping an inventory allows you to track what you have and need to replace.

Tactical Gear Care: Clean Blood and Dirt

Cleaning hunting gear is essential for getting the most out of your equipment. Check all your tools for blood, dirt and debris that can accumulate.

Disassemble and Inspect Equipment

Take apart all your equipment to check and clean it properly, checking for wear and tear, stretching, corrosion or parts you need to replace.

Perform Gear Maintenance On Any Trail Camera’s

While you can leave trail cameras outdoors all year, they may require cleaning or updates with the changing seasons.

Disassemble and Clean Firearms

Follow your manual for instructions on proper tactical gear care for your firearms, whether you own rifles, knives or bows.

Clean Your Clothing

Wash all your tactical, sporting and hunting clothes multiple times to remove blood stains and smells. Use unscented detergent to neutralise scents. Store it all in a dry bag in a dry room to reduce the chances of picking up any other smells.

Thoroughly Clean Your Shoes

Remove your shoelaces and use a brush and water to clean your hunting shoes of dirt, blood and debris. Replace your laces if you need them and spray your boots in a waterproof product, then store them somewhere dry.

Clean All Your Optics

Using a lens brush, carefully clean your hunting optics of debris or dust that can build up. Be as gentle as possible, because too much pressure will scratch your lens and reduce the quality of your sight. Optics include:

• Binoculars
• Rangefinders
• Scopes

Store Your Electronics Correctly

Technology is often delicate, and bumps can dislodge key components. Remove all batteries from hunting or tactical tools, including flashlights, headlamps, optics and electric callers, to avoid the risk of losing battery life when you need it most.