What do you listen to while you clean your guns?

[50 Freak]

I'm super boring then....

I listen to classical music. Mostly Bach.

 

[smokemaker]

Everything fjolnirsson mentioned, plus all the great guitar rock from the 70's and 80's. At hunting camp, it's The Outlaw Josie Wales or nothing.

 

[Checkman]

I like Springsteen and Jackson Brown. I'm also partial to George Straight.

 

[Matthew748]

It depends on how much cleaning I have to do. If its not too much, an episode of "Dark Shadows," "Kung Fu," "The A-Team," or "MacGyver" gets thrown in the DVD player. More lengthy sessions call for "The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly," or "Terminator 2."

 

[Tom Servo]

I've been a musician, composer, DJ (the real kind, with spinning vinyl) and for a time I ran a record store, so I have a collection of...about 400 cds and 250 records. Plus the "archived" stuff on the basement, and the stuff on the hard drives.

It's funny, because when I get one of those "what am I in the mood for?" moments, it can turn into several hours of nostalgic crate-digging. When I finally dig out something (that wasn't even remotely what I was looking for at first) that piques me, that "Aha!" puts me in the right mindset for gun cleaning.

Last time was a great mix a friend of mine did called "Power of the Drum." Bulgarian Women's Chorus, Finnish industrial music, Bartok's 2nd Quartet, Mouse on Mars and the Finn Brothers previous times. I can't have any visual stimuls because it throws my concentration.

 

[Zach S]

Hard to say. One, I'm known for not cleaning my guns. Two, I'm a musical schizo. One minute I'll be listening to BB King, and the next I'll be listening to Devil Driver.

 

[Ben Shepherd]

Usually I listen to some good country music, the old time stuf like Buck Owens, Tammy Wynette, Tom T. Hall, etc. Reminds me that this coiuntry used to be a little different. Besides it's only proper:

Half of my rifles are lever action, and ALL of my pistols are wheel guns. I don't like watching movies because I end up spending more time watching the movie then cleaning my guns.

 

[Kamicosmos]

Cleaning guns....whatever is already qued up. I often grab a gun to clean, and will clean it while surfing, so often there is no music.

Now reloading though...I really like to have Haujobb's From Homes to Planets or Funker Vogt's We Came To Kill. Good pace, nice for background music, and the subject matter is also partially relevant!

 

[DonNikmare]

If it's during week days, talk radio. If it is on the weekend, NPR. And rarely to music - oldies or classic.

Nik

 

[Black Majik]

Depends on what I'm in the mood for... I usually let my playlist on my computer run on, so whatever is playing.

Here's some of the bands/groups/artists etc that I listen to while doin' the cleaning...

4 strings, 112, Aaliyah, AFI, Alice Deejay, And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead, Aqua (Antiloop), Armin Van Buuren, ATB, Aurora, Blank And Jones, Big Pun, Blackalicious, B Thugs & Harmony, BT, Bush, Chicane, Concept, Cosmic Gate, Crystal Method, Daddy DJ, Daft Punk, Darude, Dave Mathews Band, Dee Dee, DJ Encore, DJ Jurgen, DJ Quicksilver, DJ Jean, DJ Sammy, DJ Taucher, DMX, Drowning Pool, Evanascence, Eve 6, Ferry Corsten, Foo Fighters, Foggy, Foxy Brown, Gigi D' Agostno, Ginuwine, Goo Goo Dolls, Good Charlotte, Greenday, Guns N' Roses, Hoobastank, Ian Van Dahl, Jimmy Eat World, Johnny Viscious, Kanye West, The Killers, Lasgo, Lazard, Lighter Shade Of Brown, Linkin Park, Live, Lost Witness, LSD, Ludacris, Marc Et Claude, Matchbox 20, Marco V, Matt Darey, Mauro Picotto, Metallica, Milk Inc., Motorcycle, Miss Jane, Nate Dogg, Nickelback, Noemi, Biggie, Offspring, Oceanlab, Lautsprecher, Outkast, Orion Too, Operatica, Paul Van Dyk, Paul Oakenfold, PPK, Prodigy, Robert Miles, Ron Van Den Beuken, Rezonance Q, Ratty, Rank 1, Safri Duo, Sash, Schiller, Scooter, Silverchair, Social Distortion, Soul Asylum, Staind, Stone Temple Pilots, Story Of The Year, Strokes, Svenson and Gielen, Sunbeam, Sublime, System Of A Down, System F, Switchfoot, Three Doors Down, Third Eye Blind, Thrillseekers, Three Drives, DJ Tiesto, Tilt, Tupac, Trust Company, Underworld, The Used, Usher, Warren G, Voodoo & Serano, Way Out West, Weezer, Yanou

 

[texasguy]

Lynyrd Skynyrd
80's Metallica
Pink Floyd
70's Aerosmith
Guns N' Roses

pretty much any classic rock.

 

[SouthpawShootr]

Absolutely nothing. I insist on as close to absolute silence as I can possibly get (usually this means working late at night when everybody is in bed). No visitors either. I have been known to be extremely rude to people who disturb me when I am cleaning or working on a gun. Last thing I need is for something to get lost or to jam up a gun b/c I wasn't paying attention.

 

[Jeff]

while cleaning my firearms:

I usually watch MacGyver reruns and scream at the TV, "Look at me, Richard Dean Anderson! I have a gun! I must be a bad guy!"

Or sports.

 

[GRB]

Hmm, let's see:

I listen to the slide being pulled back to check to make sure it is empty. I listen to the sounds of metal on metal during disassembly. While actually cleaning I listen to the bore brush as it slides over through the depths of the barrels, the brass brush as it scoots over really dirty parts, the spray of the compressed air can to get out any dust or dirt in hard to reach places, the barely perceptible and smooth almost silky sound as the oiled patch glides on the metal surfaces of whatever gun I am cleaning and, I listen to the then slightly muted metal on metal sounds of lightly oiled parts as they go back together smoothly and snuggly. It is all music to my ears because I know it is a job well, if not superbly, done!

I also sometimes listen to sounds of myself talking about whatever it is I am talking to myself about at that moment; no I do not answer back or have arguments with myself, I just tend to think out loud. Last time I cleaned my MP5 mags, I did it outside and got to listen to the birds, and the breeze rustling in the trees and, also an awful lot to the brush as I scrubbed off the rust (issue mags that came to me pretty darned rusty). Still music to the ears, a labor of love.

Best regards,
Glenn B

 

[reload4me2]

Music

Blues on XM radio

 

[Moondoggie]

"60's on Six" on XM Radio.

 

[fjolnirsson]

, I just tend to think out loud.

So, are you saying you have no internal monologue, as a result of the unfreezing process?

 

[GRB]

Monologue yes, and sometime internal (I only tend to talk outloud to myself when I am alone, but never any arguments with myself - it keeps the people around me happier.

 

[Blue Jays]

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[JohnKSa]

Generally leave the TV on tuned to the history channel. Even not really watching--just listening and glancing up now and then--you can still get most of the info.

 

[Zeke Menuar]

At last I checked I had about 5000 individual tunes on my computer playlist. I couldn't tell you what I listened to the last time I cleaned. This morning it was Frank Zappa, Jimi Hendrix, Motorhead, Miles Davis, Neil Young, Buddy Guy, Pink Floyd and many more.

I don't sit and clean much. Too many guns. Use the lazy man's foamy stuff.

ZM

 

[Logan5]

Heh, "The Rustlers of West Fork" by Louis Lamour, as read by Willie Nelson and The Highwaymen. Only book on tape I have handy in the basement.

 

[Bostonterrier97]

Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, Hank Williams Sr.

 

[The Grand Inquisitor]

Music: Exhumed, Immolation, Last Days of Humanity, Graveland, Leng Tch'e, Combat 84, Condemned 84, Abrasive, Incantation, Autopsy, ect ect ect...

Everything else: Start Trek DVD's (either DS9 or the Orginal Series), King of the Hill DVD's, or Futurama DVD's.

 

[Old NFO]

Since I clean mine outside, I listen, like others to nature

Plus the bright light makes me check all the little corners and crevases... I will never ceased to be amazed at the places dirt/powder can get into in a gun... :banghead: