Geds

I have a rule at my house when someone comes over to shoot...you are not done cleaning it until you've run a full mag through it. Cleaning and testing a handgun is just part of the process of target practice as far as I'm concerned. Put a spring in backwards and you may lose your life depending on a gun you didn't test. We always check their reliability after disassembly.

Right, Grady?

mastercapt

Good advice about hand racking a magazine full after cleaning. And, don't forget to clean the magazine itself.

The TV show. CSI: Miami put out a good lesson on fairearm maintenance. In Season 2, (I think) one of the characters got shot and killed in a firefight because the 9MM he carried would not fire, due to lack of cleaning. There is something to be said for revolver simplicity

Majorlk

I have seen more than one revolver so gunked up that the cylinder would hardly turn with the fingers, much less than the also-gunked-up action. They collect unburned powder and other detritus, just like semi-autos.

ANY gun requires periodic maintenance for dependable functionality. Believing anything else is foodhardy.

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Anubis

I counted 30 paragraph breaks in the original post just now (of course they could have been added in the last 5 minutes) before I quit counting. No blank lines between, but there are paragraphs.

Cold Warrior, your .25 story reminds me of my experience with one. Someon gave my father a tiny little .25, about the size of a deringer but it had a mag with capacity of 5 or 6. When I was a teen, we test fired it and it would either jam or fire 2 rounds every time. We put it back in the case. Decades later I inherited it, cut it up, and threw away the pieces.

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Cold Warrior

A newspaper and East Kentucky Magazine story, and for the benefit of people who have or keep a nostalgic or favorite old gun that they keep laying around the house but do not regularly shoot or clean, a warning story, a bad and nasty deadly surprise for some Old Cold Warrior guys who "used" to shoot.

Cold Warrior

I gave this .25 caliber Galesi to Trevor, one of our NRA CCW instructors, which he has used in every one of his subsequent CCW classes to educate any similar dumbasses. I suspect that these pistols are intended to be Mafia guns, to be thrown away after you use them once.

Cold Warrior

Cleaning real guns is a lot easier than those Civil War-replica black-powder ones! Which...also gives you a dandy handy excuse not too, I mean, since they remain relatively clean...and you could let them go for maybe a month or so.

hogdaddy

You let a Smoke pole sit after fireing it for a mounth /Good luck if its
not pitted in the barrel,I know the RUST WILL BE THERE
Clean them thar smoke polels as soon posible H/D

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Kurt Gepke

I enjoyed the book. I give it a 7 out of 10 because it has a good beat and I can dance to it.

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Cold Warrior

This story has been sent to gun magazines and has been passed around by CCW and other NRA instructors, as a warning to themselves and our other CCW sisters and brothers, to watch out for those old cops and soldiers and these retirees who "used" to shoot and are starting to get back into it...with their favorite old gift nostalgic pretty or imported guns that they have been meaning to shoot and clean. All of my new guns are good and clean and have been shot, but not a lot. I have to remind myself that when I see those stunt people performing and shooting on the movie and on my TV screen, they are not ME! Well...sort of maybe how I used to be...a few decades or so ago.