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Cleaning your pocket carry gun
If you pocket (or ankle) carry, how often do you clean your gun, and do you perform a full cleaning as if you had returned from the range, or some abbreviated version?
I recently started to pocket carry a PM9 in a Galco pocket holster that leaves the barrel end open. I'm just curious as to the maintenance that others do on their pocket carry pieces.
Thanks!
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I shoot at least once a month... and I clean them after I shoot.
I don't really give the pocket gun special consideration unless it specifically gets dirty...i.e I spill something on it, step in a puddle or mud when I'm ankle carrying etc.
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Pocket (usually) or ankle a 442. Visual inspection nightly when it goes into the safe. Clean weekly.
Last edited by semperfi.45; June 5th, 2007 at 06:03 PM.
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Daily - visual inspection - and removal of any "pocket lint" etc. Everyday Sunday I field strip and wipe down, and check it. I don't do a full cleaning on it unless I take it to the range. I do visually check it often, and check for proper function.
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Haven't cleaned mine now in a long time. I am trying to make it not work just to see what it would take. I have carried it like this for over a year, and no failures. I am going to the range in a couple of weeks, when I do, it will get shot. Failure or not, it is getting a cleaning and part inspection this time.
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inspect it every day , more often depending on environment if on the ankle . a full cleaning once a week or as needed if sooner ( being in an extremely dusty job ect.. ) Remember that Kahr pms like to run wet , and oil attracts and retains grime . When i say inspect i mean before i pocket/ strap on the little pm i unload , and pop the slide off the frame to see just what is in the nooks and crannys of the barrel hood as well as rail spaces ect. If i am doing a filthy or dusty job ( some earth work , grinding grain ect... ) I may well give it a quick visual glance a time or two thro out the day .
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check mine about once a week. Mainly just remove a little pocket lint and then if it looks dry will go back an put a little oil on it, but this is rare. Usually shoot it at the range before this happens.
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I check mine once a week. Once a month, I'll check it more throughly and see if lube is needed. Found it can accumulate a LOT of pocket lint, holster does not prevent that.
My P3AT gets cleaned weekly, whether it was carried often that week or not.
I don't pocket carry often but when I do, I check it before carry and after for lint and debris. Clean after every shoot. At least once a month, more like every two weeks.
-Bark'n
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"The gun is the great equalizer... For it is the gun, that allows the meek to repel the monsters; Whom are bigger, stronger and without conscience, prey on those who without one, would surely perish."
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My pocket carry is a model 60 & it gets cleaned after shooting & wiped down at least once a week.
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A can of compressed air like you would use to clean your computer out with is great for getting pocket lint (or lint from undershirts from IWB carry) out of pistols.
...He suggested that "every American citizen" should own a rifle and train with it on firing ranges "at every courthouse." -Chesty Puller
Yup, you gotta give them a little extra attention with pocket lint lurking. I'll give them a blast from my air compressor to get all that out, and I inspect it a little more. I wish I could say I do it daily, but that just doesnt happen.
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Any carry gun can get lint, debris , ect in it. I try to atleast weekly clean out the lint and dust on my carry gun.
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I clean my firearms after each use. I shoot my concealed carry handguns often.
I wipe the concealed carry gun down after toting it each day.
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