my carry gun gets stripped, degreased and relubed once a week even if i dont shoot it , my others i gotta admit are hit or miss on cleaning , i try to maintain them but sometimes i am lax on my recreational guns
I used to be a ''recreational cleaner'' in early days- no more! :wink:
I break cleaning down into different categories - and the one that gets least attention is often the bore, if I am shooting jackets. I will tho remove powder residue and crud from breech areas, feed ramps - and still do a normal take down. Much importance placed on lube where it is needed, in minimal quantities.
With revo's I clean chambers, clean burn marks from frame and cyl but again - bore may not get attention every time.
I think serious bore fouling is not really a factor until you get up to high velocities and so rifle bores get more attention as does for example .454 Casull - copper gets deposited on that baby.
I almost prefer to carry after a magfull gone thru post cleaning - sorta check proceedure, which hardly leaves gun soiled at all.
I call my approach minimalist - but within the realms of common sense - well, as I see it :smile:
When I clean my guns [which is once a week regardless if they've been discharged] I usually sit over at my neighbors [they are infantrymen btw], put in a good war movie, tip a few beers down and just enjoy cleaning. Sometimes if I'm lucky one of the boys will offer to clean one up for me!
Since usually when I do go shoot these days I always take 4 or 5 short guns with me.
I do not always get to clean them right away when I get home.
I pop them each into their own Zip Loc Bag when I get them home.
Into each bag I put a fresh Silica Gel & a pinch of Vapor Phase Inhibitor.
Then I can clean them at my leisure without any concern about grunge and powder residue holding moisture against the metal.
"Look Ma No Rust!"
Anyway...that is what I do. It works for me.
Ideally, since my wife is extremely "solvent sensitive" I clean outdoors if possible.
Carry piece gets field stripped and wiped down with Breakfree every week or 2, plus an external wipe down with a Breakfree soaked old sock after every carry session.
After shooting, I clean the carry gun at the range...other than that I clean, inspect, and lube it once a week. The rest get cleaned when I get home from wherever they been used...
I always try to clean my guns when I get home from the range, though sometimes I'll wait until the next morning while the wife's at work. My carry gun gets at least a wipe down and inspection each week, if not an actual cleaning - whether it's been fired or not.
My long guns don't get shot much anymore - only one I've shot in the last 5 years is my 10/22. I try to clean those at least every six months or so.
Do I enjoy cleaning them? Sometimes but not always. I do like knowing my guns are clean and freshly lubed should I really need them - peace of mind goes a long way.
Jack
I clean my guns because I have to and I'll do a good job of it, but I'm not like my brother, who goes into happy obsessive-compulsive Zen mode cleaning his, and then volunteers to clean everybody else's. :lol: Cleaning solvents bother my nose.
My carry guns get regular inspections, lubing, etc. I've seen other people's carry guns look like my tarantulas made nests in them, and were almost "glued" to the insides of their holsters. :dead:
I clean after everytime I shoot, usually the same day. That said, I absolutely despise cleaning. To me it is such a nusaince with the little patches and the little nooks and crap that I need to clean. When I clean the gun is going to look showroom new, no half assing it. Probably why it seems to take forever and as I said, I don't like it one bit.
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