Would you pay to have your gun cleaned?

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Someone jacked my cleaning kit and we went over to my friends roommates house, guy cleaned my guns for free so heck i didn't mind it. Sometimes cleaning can be a pain but I realize it's no different than taking car of yourself in the real world.
 
Prob not for me. Cleaning is sort of my meditation and private time...hard to think of someone else doing that for me. I only have a few firearms but I bet there's more of a demand among folks that have dozens and want them maintained in working order. Good Luck!
 
You might have to deal with someone that (rightly or not) thinks for some reason the gun now acts differently or sees a scratch that he says wasn't there before.
 
I have a friend who's a gunsmith, who gets most of his business off of owners who don't do their own cleaning. They need heavy cleaning, and like you say, small repairs.

There have been times when I have cleaned my dad's rifles, and they were so bad, I considered taking them out to a pro. (He believes in cleaning them once after eack war.) But he's got a Ruger Mk 1 that is out of service for want of a $3 part, and he's been getting around to it for 10 years. HE would NEVER pay.
 
I think it could work. In the outdoor store i used to work in they did cleaning and small repairs. It worked well for them. You just have to know when to tell them to go to a gunsmith.
 
A lot of gunsmiths make a fair amount of their money cleaning guns. A lot of hunters just won't clean their own guns, so they bring them in before hunting season for a cleaning and checkup.

I was surprised when a gunsmith told me this, but he explained these are guys who will buy a $3000 gun to shoot a few geese once a year. Money is just not an issue with them.
 
Not on a small scale... IE I would never pay someone to clean my personal guns.
On a large scale... like for a private security firm or a LE agency it makes more sense.
 
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO....no
I wish people would pay me to clean their guns I love to clean guns I think it's cool to learn how to take them apart and put them back together.
 
Not me. But there could be quite a few people out there who have a gun for self defense, fire it once a year or so, and who would love to have someone clean the gun for them. These folks are not mechanical, are not "into" guns at all, really don't know how and don't care to learn. Post an ad at your local gun shops and pawn shops. Many people don't like to get dirty. Heck, when I was in college I kept in beer money by shining shoes for guys too lazy or proud to shine their own. Go for it!
 
people get way to deep into cleaning their guns, a good cleaning on a handgun should take no more than 5 minutes, for general use that is. a rifle like an ak and an ar, no more than 10 minutes.

put it like this at work today we went to the range. there were 6 m4's that we took out. it took me 12 minutes to clean 2 of the rifles, each had approx 400rds through them.( i timed it to make a point to the privates) the privates were cleaning for about 30 minutes, they went to turn em in and they got kicked backed for not being clean. Mine went right on in and looked beautiful if i may say so myself!:)

alot of people spend undo time on parts of the gun that don't matter.

i tell my soldiers this, when in garrison make them beautiful inside and out, especially on the outside, because that is what they are gonna look at and if the outside looks good then they aren't gonna worry with the inside. however if we are in the field or deployed, the inside is what matters, and as long as it is clean enough that they could fire a whole combat load + without faliure due to the weapon being filthy then i am happy.
 
I would pay to have a firearm really cleaned. I'm thinking of an old Mossberg semi 22 that I have. It needs some TLC also beyond cleaning and some parts may need to be replaced. I've completely torn the thing apart in the past, I just don't feel like doing it.
 
I just did... Took my Browning BPS down to their service facility and they completely took it down (as in every single part) replaced any worn parts, cleaned it and put it back together. This is the first time I have done this but it really needed to be done, mostly because the manual says not to take it down past removing the barrel :rolleyes: The gun has had about 8,000 rounds through it and many wet hunts so I figuered why not!

HB
 
Theres a local gunsmith that has a sign on the counter advertising gun cleaning for $40. I've often wondered why someone would hire it done. But apparently there are plenty of folks that do, to justify that sign in his shop.
 
I'd never trust someone else to take my gun apart. I barely allow others to shoot it.

You want to make some $$$ . . .

Clean out gutters, sweep roofs, hang Christmas lights.
 
My local range has a sonic cleaner that I have been tempted to try out, just to see how well it cleans. They charge $10 for the service, and will do it while you window shop their stuff. There have been more than a few times that I leave the range, want to do some handgun window shopping and thought about letting them run my semi-auto through the cleaner while I wandered. Haven't done it, mostly because I don't mind cleaning the thing, since I would already be cleaning the revolver, so the $10 tag is very tempting, but has not pushed me over the edge yet.
 
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