Cleaning your CCW gun.

[Sheldon J]

Don't know if this has been posted before but...
My CCW gun seems to gather a heap of dust while in the pancake, so every couple of days I blow it down to remove the lint, inspect the mag, I give it a total breakdown cleaning and re-oil about once a month. Of coarse I do a total cleaning and inspection after a round at the range. The mag is checked every time before I go out the door.
But once a few years back I had a friend that had been CCW for some time, and during a typical bull session I asked to see his .380 STAR (that was what I carried at the time too). When he handed it to me I dropped the mag and when I attempted to open the slide to inspect the chamber the action was rusted closed! I quickly reinserted the mag and handed it back to the guy and told him he needed a gun smith badly.
So hence the poll how religious are you about keeping your CCW gun happy?

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[imatt]

Mine gets the dust/lint removed almost every time I wear it/them. As for going an extended time without cleaning (enoughso to rust closed), I try to fire carry guns at least every few weeks, so they get cleaned afterwards.

I cannot imagine how long the gun hadn't been fired to have rusted shut!

[SIXTO]

I dont clean it very often, just after trips to the range. I do wipe down, check lint and function daily though.

[mslaughtertx]

I use a silicon cloth daily to take care of lint and smudge, though it only gets a true cleaning after a range visit. Though it is a Glock! They like it dirty.

[friesepferd]

depends on how often i shoot it.
when at school i shoot around 3-4 times a week. so i do a normal cleaning about 2x a week, and a run with the bore snake when i shoot but dont clean.
now im on christmas break so i only shoot 1x a week. so i have been cleaning it once ever 1-2 weeks.
pretty much i clean every other time i shoot. and run bore snake through when i dont clean.
i have gone a lot longer. never gotten to the point where the gun doesnt work as well. but i have gotten to the point to where i have disassembled and wondered how the heck it was still working fine.

[David in FL]

Like others......really gets cleaned after a trip to the range. That usually ends up being every couple of weeks or so.

[Tye_Defender]

Or should I say, I won't carry it unless it has been shot since I put it together last. Not sure why, but I just feel more confident that it will function when I need it if I have put a magazine through it since it was put together last. That means I probably don't take it apart and clean it more then once a month. I will wipe it down, etc. regularly to keep it looking nice and the lint out of the works.

[DrBart2]

Once a month and always immediately after shooting it (range time). I try to spend some time at the range at least every other week, so the gun usually gets cleaned more than once per month.

[tns0038]

I use a silicon cloth daily to take care of lint and smudge, though it only gets a true cleaning after a range visit. Though it is a Glock! They like it dirty.

I’ll have to say I agree, but I do that with all my guns.

[goawayfarm]

2-3 times a week. Clean it after I shoot it!

[glock27mark]

after each trip to the range, if i notice some dust. if im bored.(a clean gun is
a happy gun)

[UtahRSO]

I don't shoot much in the dead of wintertime, so I don't field strip and clean my guns as often as I do the rest of the year. But I have a bore-snake in my range bag near my loading bench. It's there that I dry-fire a lot, and so I run the snake with break-free on it through the barrel at least every week.

I do a field strip, clean and lubricate, pretty much always after I shoot it at the range.

[tdpalmer]

I try to shoot at least every other weekend if not every weekend, so my carry gun gets a cleaning every week or so. I check it daily before putting it on, and de lint as needed.

TDPalmer

[jualdeaux]

I clean it when I shoot it.

I have a glock 26 that was my yard gun all summer. it had grass all up in it from all the mowing I did with it. I really wanted to take it and shoot IDPA with it at last month but it was cancelled due to rain. I decided to go ahead and give it a cleaning anyway. Even with all the crap in there it functioned fine.

[matdicdad]

I clean mine after a trip to the range. I'll wipe it down every couple of days.