User Panel
User Panel
User Panel
|
Posted: 7/5/2019 8:09:43 AM EDT
[#1]
Shot the hell out of prairie dogs last year with my Savage A17 and I kept cleaning it throughout the day because I was shooting a lot. The gun kept jamming and misfiring by the end of the hunting trip. Turns out I cleaned it too much. It needs to run dirty and I took out all the lubrication.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 7/5/2019 8:12:56 AM EDT
[#2]
I don’t clean my Glocks, except to get the “funk” off from being carried 14 hours a day 7 days a week.
They all get detail stripped and cleaned immaculately every few months, with usually a couple thousand rounds each through them. Similar routine with my AR’s. My heirloom guns get a cleaning after each range trip and periodically in between. MP5 gets pampered a bit, mostly because it’s a pain in the ass once it starts building up. |
|
|
|
Posted: 7/5/2019 8:23:01 AM EDT
[#3]
I clean my heirloom guns, like Dad's Model 94, and my Smith 19-3, every time I get them dirty. My every day 'working' and carry guns, like my stainless Ruger sp101, Glock, and my go-to 10/22, get cleaned maybe twice per year except for blowing off the lint and adding a drop or two of oil once a month or so.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 7/5/2019 8:35:09 AM EDT
[#4]
Cleaning guns is largely a waste of time. Add lube and keep shooting.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 7/5/2019 8:52:48 AM EDT
[#5]
I hate cleaning guns. It is a pain in the ass. It hasn't stopped me from going shooting, but it has made me reconsider how many guns to shoot in a single session. And I don't always clean them after shooting. Usually I will at least run a patch through the barrel and wipe them down, but sometimes they just go back into the safe as-is.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 7/5/2019 8:53:56 AM EDT
[#6]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
It's completely unnecessary to clean guns every time you shoot them. It's an irrational hold over from corrosive powders and primers. As far as scrubbing rifle bores goes, frequent cleaning does more harm than good. The future is now, old man. |
|
|
|
Posted: 7/5/2019 8:58:30 AM EDT
[#7]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
I hate cleaning mine. I've got some I've never cleaned. 
|
|
|
|
Posted: 7/5/2019 9:00:52 AM EDT
[#8]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
It's completely unnecessary to clean guns every time you shoot them. It's an irrational hold over from corrosive powders and primers. As far as scrubbing rifle bores goes, frequent cleaning does more harm than good. |
|
|
|
Posted: 7/5/2019 9:02:41 AM EDT
[#9]
I raised lazy kids, what's wrong with this generation?
Did I about sum that up for you OP? lol goddamn stupid boomers |
|
|
|
Posted: 7/5/2019 9:04:27 AM EDT
[#10]
A prominent custom 1911 builder sends a letter with the gun that says that you should never clean the barrel of his $4-8k guns.
I wonder if it actually might be beneficial because the barrel becomes a bit more snug for the bullet with some build up. Traditional gun cleaning dogma strikes me as opportunistic rather than fact-based....like auto companies suggesting oil changes every 3k miles. |
|
|
|
Posted: 7/5/2019 9:08:45 AM EDT
[#11]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
I clean my rifles when the accuracy falls off, my pistols when I see a heavy buildup or crud. I have seen many guns cleaned so often that the finish is damaged. |
|
|
|
Posted: 7/5/2019 9:13:33 AM EDT
[#12]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Every once in a while I'll take her into the shower, split her in half and fill her full of shaving cream...dirty dirty gurl  In recruit training (1981), we would take brand new boots into the shower with shaving cream and a brush to strip them. Once they dried, we'd re-dye them. This stopped, outside of recruit training at least, when the speed-lace boots came out. |
|
|
|
Posted: 7/5/2019 9:15:09 AM EDT
[#13]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Do you change your oil every time you drive your car? Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted:
It's just like the new cars, you don't even need to change the oil. That's what they make duct tape for- covering over the dash lights. As to the original question, I clean my guns after every range trip. I've owned probably over 200 firearms at this point and only had a few that malfunctioned and those were factory defects that needed to be sent back to the factory. Cleaning also allows you to look for worn / broken parts and anything else that may cause a problem. Some firearms have loose tolerances that allow extended periods of neglect, some don't. |
|
|
|
Posted: 7/5/2019 9:22:31 AM EDT
[#14]
Obviously my black powder stuff gets cleaned at the range when I am done shooting.
Otherwise, stuff I only drag out of the safe once in a great while, I clean and run a kroil patch through the bore before I put it away. Stuff I shoot often gets done at the end of the season or if I start to notice something with accuracy or function. ( really the only time this was an issue was with a leaded up rimfire or chamber gets sticky from the wax lube on the shells) The only exceptions are my match 22 gets done after practice except for the day or two leading up to the match when it is done at the end of the match. And my 50 gets done after 12-15 shots. |
|
|
|
Posted: 7/5/2019 9:24:12 AM EDT
[#15]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
It's completely unnecessary to clean guns every time you shoot them. It's an irrational hold over from corrosive powders and primers. As far as scrubbing rifle bores goes, frequent cleaning does more harm than good. |
|
|
|
Posted: 7/5/2019 9:27:11 AM EDT
[#16]
OCD people gonna OCD.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 7/5/2019 10:05:06 AM EDT
[#17]
I failed to clean my glock after a few months of wearing it while sweating my balls off to lawn care. Fucking slide rusted to the frame rails.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 7/5/2019 10:10:37 AM EDT
[#18]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I keep seing this retarded statement posted over and over...Gues what, if you actualy did change your oil after every trip you'd have a million mile motor since the oil would NEVER carry any appreciable amount of combustion byproducts or suffer ANY effects of thermal breakdown. I've seen personally a guy's engine that used to run a quick change oil place who changed the oil in his ride every month, eince he got the oil & filter so cheap. He pulled the motor apart for a cam change and there was damn near no wear on any of the internals. You had to take a micrometer to it to find any deviation from the initial time he had first rebuilt it. Made a believer out of me. To this day I keep the oil changes up on my vehicles like a religion. Guns too... Why in the world you'd want to leave any old lube & abrasive particles in the gun to keep acting on the parts to increase wear is beyond me. That's like saying why bother to wipe your ass, more shit is just going to come out of it anyway...  |
|
|
|
Posted: 7/5/2019 10:24:36 AM EDT
[#19]
I clean ALL my stuff once a year. It is a ritual and we pick a nice October day, turn up the music, put something on the grill and make a great time of it. Many of these have not been used in the year prior but they still cleaned. Any gun I fire or take to the range or hunt with gets the "light treatment" prior to going back in the safe, car or home. My sons' Comp rifles RARELY get cleaned. It can take him a LONG time to de-copper and then "shoot in" the barrel, re-zero, verify velocity and dope.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 7/5/2019 10:30:32 AM EDT
[#20]
Some of the younger guys I shoot with don't know how to field strip a gun. Seems like they never clean them and then bitch every range trip when the gun jams. I know a guy with a 930 that won't cycle a single round and has been like that for 2 years. Probably just needs cleaned.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 7/5/2019 10:39:47 AM EDT
[#21]
I don't know what you guys are considering young, I'm only 32 and I love sitting down with a beer after a day at the range and breaking everything down to give it a thorough cleaning. In fact, cleaning my guns is the most relaxing thing to me. Put on a good movie or audiobook, sip a dark beer, give the hands something to do the mind a menial task...It's heaven.
I have friends, some much older than me that hate it. I don't get it. |
|
|
|
Posted: 7/5/2019 10:45:12 AM EDT
[#22]
got tired of cleaning guns so i dont go shooting anymore. But, i do clean them at least when i do/did use them
|
|
|
|
Posted: 7/5/2019 10:51:38 AM EDT
[#23]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Also, sometimes I put on an action flick and clean guns just for giggles and shits. |
|
|
|
Posted: 7/5/2019 11:08:20 AM EDT
[#24]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
I raised lazy kids, what's wrong with this generation? Did I about sum that up for you OP? lol goddamn stupid boomers |
|
|
|
Posted: 7/5/2019 1:23:38 PM EDT
[#25]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
I would think that would work pretty well. In recruit training (1981), we would take brand new boots into the shower with shaving cream and a brush to strip them. Once they dried, we'd re-dye them. This stopped, outside of recruit training at least, when the speed-lace boots came out. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted:
Every once in a while I'll take her into the shower, split her in half and fill her full of shaving cream...dirty dirty gurl In recruit training (1981), we would take brand new boots into the shower with shaving cream and a brush to strip them. Once they dried, we'd re-dye them. This stopped, outside of recruit training at least, when the speed-lace boots came out. |
|
|
|
Posted: 7/5/2019 7:56:00 PM EDT
[#26]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
A prominent custom 1911 builder sends a letter with the gun that says that you should never clean the barrel of his $4-8k guns. I wonder if it actually might be beneficial because the barrel becomes a bit more snug for the bullet with some build up. |
|
|
|
Posted: 7/5/2019 8:00:40 PM EDT
[#27]
I almost never clean guns. Mostly I just lube them. I rarely take them apart, spray brake cleaner all over and lube them.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 7/5/2019 8:01:58 PM EDT
[#28]
Call me crazy but one of my favorite things to do is clean guns. I actually look forward to while I'm shooting. Have a whole process that I maintain each time as well. Always buying cleaning supplies.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 7/5/2019 8:05:24 PM EDT
[#29]
I just hold mine by the optic and dunk in a vat of used motor oil.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 7/5/2019 8:12:07 PM EDT
[#30]
You were taught wrong as far as today's materials are concerned.
I run cherry balmz in my shit and clean and re-apply every couple of thousand rounds or so. "Clean after every range session" is dumb and counterproductive. I'll run a bore snake through it after the range session. That's it. |
|
|
|
Posted: 7/5/2019 8:20:45 PM EDT
[#31]
I'm 31 and more anal about cleaning guns than I need to be. I don't avoid the range because of it (there's plenty of other stupid reasons I avoid the range), but I really don't like cleaning when I get home. I've been kinda successful in making myself not obsess over cleaning, but it still bugs me if I know the gun is going to be put up for a while and hasn't been cleaned.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 7/5/2019 9:10:25 PM EDT
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
I almost never clean guns. Mostly I just lube them. I rarely take them apart, spray brake cleaner all over and lube them. |
|
|
|
Posted: 7/5/2019 10:12:02 PM EDT
[#33]
I haven’t cleaned a gun in 2 years. Buy quality firearms and they’ll keep on truckin along.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 7/5/2019 10:14:04 PM EDT
[#34]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
That right there. I grew up in that mindset of cleaning a gun if it had only fired one round. I carried a blue. 38spl for my CCW for almost twenty years. It did not get a full cleaning every day, but the exterior got a wipe down with a slightly oiled cloth every day to prevent rust. My ECD for the last decade is a G27. Its lucky to get a full cleaning after 300 rounds. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted:
Depends on the gun. My ECD for the last decade is a G27. Its lucky to get a full cleaning after 300 rounds. And that is what I did, until I got a Glock and then an AR, they get cleaned and lubed when I feel they need it. I do put them away clean, for long term storage. I want them ready to go fresh out of the safe. 
|
|
|
|
Posted: 7/5/2019 10:16:07 PM EDT
[#35]
Virtue signal all things.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 7/5/2019 10:26:11 PM EDT
[#36]
If I don't have time to clean a weapon, I at least wipe it down. I wish I'd tried to turn an M-60 into the armory, explaining that it didn't need cleaned. Just to see what those understanding fellows said.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 7/5/2019 10:26:16 PM EDT
[#37]
I clean them when they stop working, except my G26 that I carry everyday.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 7/5/2019 10:49:28 PM EDT
[#38]
I usually clean whatever gun I had at the range that day later that evening. Only because I realistically don't know when I might take that particular gun to the range again if ever. It could be three months from now or three years from now.
None of them have shown any degradation in overall performance or accuracy from frequency of cleaning. |
|
|
Win a FREE Membership!
Sign up for the ARFCOM weekly newsletter and be entered to win a free ARFCOM membership. One new winner* is announced every week!
You will receive an email every Friday morning featuring the latest chatter from the hottest topics, breaking news surrounding legislation, as well as exclusive deals only available to ARFCOM email subscribers.
AR15.COM is the world's largest firearm community and is a gathering place for firearm enthusiasts of all types.
From hunters and military members, to competition shooters and general firearm enthusiasts, we welcome anyone who values and respects the way of the firearm.
Subscribe to our monthly Newsletter to receive firearm news, product discounts from your favorite Industry Partners, and more.
Copyright © 1996-2024 AR15.COM LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Any use of this content without express written consent is prohibited.
AR15.Com reserves the right to overwrite or replace any affiliate, commercial, or monetizable links, posted by users, with our own.
