Posted: 9/14/2026 5:51:15 PM EDT
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I occasionally clean out the firing pin chamber on my guns, except for the ones that make it difficult to do so. For instance, the Bodyguard 2.0 forces you to push out the rear site. You have to remove the optics plate on the CSX E-Series. How often does one need to clean out the firing pin chamber? |
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The amount of fouling I find depends upon the gun. I usually wait until I have 500 or more rounds through them. Of my pistols, I find that the Glocks have the least of amount of fouling. My P365X, CSX E-Series, and P938 get much dirtier. I have no clue what my Bodyguard looks like, as I don't have a sight pushing tool for it. |
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Honestly, for my old range gun (striker fired), I cleaned when the gun became unreliable (about 4k round or so). Shooting 10x fired brass can lead to a ton of junk in a striker chamber 
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Originally Posted By Precious87: Honestly, for my old range gun (striker fired), I cleaned when the gun became unreliable (about 4k round or so). Shooting 10x fired brass can lead to a ton of junk in a striker chamber Yeah, I would also think that a deep clean interval would be in the thousands (or greater) of rounds not hundreds of rounds for most modern guns, but I suppose it depends on the model. A lot of these modern striker-fired guns are taken to tens of thousands of rounds in military testing. Or even the Hellcat was taken to 20,000 rounds with only the recoil spring being replaced every 2500 rounds (there was no mention of a deep clean in the articles on that at least). Most user manuals that I have seen don't mention specifically cleaning FP/striker channels (though they do make a point to say never oil the striker or striker channel!) IIRC. Anyway, I guess everyone's mileage varies and it is their responsibility to be a responsible gun owner. |
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I don't think I've ever taken one apart just to clean the channel the firing pin/striker moves in. I have sprayed them out with carb cleaner or brake cleaner. I hold the slide by the muzzle end, muzzle up, try to line up the little red tube that comes taped to teh side of the can with the firing pin/striker hole in the breech face and spray. The crud rolls out, or not, depending on how dirty it is. I've had several M&Ps apart (new when I bought them and used when I bought them) to install new striker blocks (Apex usually, or modified my me to look/work like Apex) or to install the newer style 10 degree strikers in them and never really found what I'd call a real dirty channel/liner/striker/firing pin. I recently bought a used LEO trade in M&P 1.0 .45 acp that was so dirty I nicknamed the LEO it was issued to "Pig Pen". It was downright nasty inside and took some cleaning to get the hard/dried carbon out of some spots. When I installed a new striker safety and 10 degree striker in it It was barely dirty inside the striker channel/striker liner. I wonder if lower powered/cheap 9MM ammo contributes to more crud in the striker channel? People who reload are aware that light powder charges sometimes result in incomplete burning of the powder. People who observe their brass see how dirty the outside of the brass can be with lower powered/cheap ammo and it's due to lower pressures not expanding the case walls enough to do a good job of sealing the burning powder in front of the case and some of it blows back down the chamber between the chamber and outside of the case. How much of that makes it's way into the firing pin channel? Steel cased ammo might be worse, too. |
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Originally Posted By Kokodude: I occasionally clean out the firing pin chamber on my guns, except for the ones that make it difficult to do so. For instance, the Bodyguard 2.0 forces you to push out the rear site. You have to remove the optics plate on the CSX E-Series. How often does one need to clean out the firing pin chamber? This is one of the biggest reasons why I like Glock and any generic 1911 in that you can disassemble the slide very easily. But yes, it kind of drives me nuts when you have to use a punch and hammer to access basic things like the fire pin channel or extractor. |
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Originally Posted By dalle0001: This is one of the biggest reasons why I like Glock and any generic 1911 in that you can disassemble the slide very easily. But yes, it kind of drives me nuts when you have to use a punch and hammer to access basic things like the fire pin channel or extractor. Yes, Glock is great for that. |