Do you give certain guns extra TLC?

I usually treat all of my guns about the same. I clean what I feel I have to get out for reliability and ignore the little stuff in corners. I'm a very lazy cleaner.

Yep!

any gun Pops gave to me gets taken care of extra special.

Winchester 94, Uberti SAA, Sig 226 (the stainless one I use in competition), etc.

I use about 15-20 Q-tips and a bottle of 91% Isopropyl Alcohol to get all of the carbon cleaned from the polymer frame of my Glock. So pretty much whatever gun I am cleaning at the time is getting extra TLC

A pressure washer blast down, blow dry and an oiling. The stainless revolvers gets light polish with simichrome occasionally. That it.

No.

All of my firearms are about the same for functionality, durability, reliability, intended use, etc whatever. Treated pretty much the same.

I treat them all with respect and attention to detail. If I were to answer your question I would have to honestly say yes.
My carry gun gets cleaned more often then the rest, wether it has been fired or not. (no dust bunnies allowed)

The majority of my guns are military surplus and parkerized so they seem to hold up very well in storage. The one exception is a favorite Colt M1903 in .32 ACP which has old worn bluing and is very susceptible to light surface rust spots no matter how carefully I clean and oil it. I check it and re-oil it much more often than the others. I hate rust!

Tinpig

T'each their own. I am a great fan of bore snakes and pressurized Gun Scrubber...

I guess it depends on how long it's going to be before its shot again. Some guns get shot regularly and don't necessarily get cleaned every trip to the range others get shot once or twice a year and those get cleaned even if I only shoot 25 rounds through them.

1) Family heirloom Colt 1903 pocket gets cleaned gently after every use, especially external blued surfaces---nothing is thinner than old Colt bluing!

2) ALL blued firearms are wiped down after handling/use, at least externally.

3) Walther KKJ .22 rifle: we pick it up with gloves, think about shooting it, and put it back on the rack.


I used to go crazy with the cleaning but realized it can be true you do more harm than good by over-cleaning sometimes. Also, I'm lazy.

OP, perfectly normal.

Utilitarian guns like the Glock or AR's get a quick bore scrubbing and a simple carbon cleaning and re-oiling.

But the special guns like my 1912 Fox double barrel or other finely blued guns get handled with kid gloves and meticulously cleaned and fingerprints wiped off.

Absolutely. My higher-end shotguns get a wipe down before returning to the safe any time my fingers have touched the barrels. They see good field use, but the mirror bluing deserves that respect. Handguns? Meh....they all are cleaned after being shot, but the $1500 Dan Wesson gets the same love that my $200 Mak gets.

Probably the blued guns get a little more attention only because like many others here I hate any kind of corrosion on my guns. There is also one nickel plated gun which gets the occasional Flitz treatment just to keep the dull tarnish away.

All my Black Powder guns get lots more attention than my smokeless guns.

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Do you give certain guns extra TLC?

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No.

As a general rule, my favorite firearm is the one that I happen to be holding at the time.

GBExpat said:

No.

As a general rule, my favorite firearm is the one that I happen to be holding at the time.

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i agree!

My 629 and Colt AR's get extra care


10/22's---870 Express' and Glocks-----not so much

I clean all my guns to the best of my ability - that being said - I treat my Taurus PT 99 AFS better than the wife LOL

It was my first gun and still my favorite to shoot (I'm most comfortable with it) - although my new 1911 Black Label 380 is gaining ground as my fav to shoot.

I take care of all my weapons, but I have a 32 year old 10/22 that was a Christmas gift when we didn't have the money to buy it...it's handled with much extra care now.

The Mateba has the nicest bluing, hence it gets the most careful handling. The unpainted AR70 kit-build, not so much

Without a doubt. I probably have 3 categories.

1. THe guns we use every day get abused to hell. Thats why we use what we use. We have a lot of sand and dust and the guns get real dirty. But they are shooters and go to work a lot. One particular one is a Fieldmaster from the early .50s. It probably get used on rats and larger rodent types as well as turtles and the occasional coyote once a week. We clean it two or 3 times a year when it finally will not cycle. We shoot rat shot thru it, 22 shorts, LRs, all kinds of stuff. It is to this day the most accurate .22lr I have ever shot. We have a mid sevenites 70 and 760 in 30-06 that get about the same treatment though they are obviously used a lot less often.

2. MY CC and home defense guns I keep clean, but dry. As dry as I can.

3. I like to collect pieces that I think are cool. Those stay in the same condition they were found in, and will until the day I die. They are well oiled and cared for like delicate flowers.

My PPQ and PPK get cleaned so they're spotless.

My Taurus 85 and S&W shield get carried so they're cleaned to be functional. They will have fingerprints on them from use so no sense in buffing them til they're shiny.

Oh heck yes,,,

Oh heck yes,,,
My Tupperware guns get cleaned and oiled,,,
My stainless steel guns get cleaned and oiled,,,
My blue steel rifles and pistols get cleaned, oiled, and polished.

Aarond

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