Cleaned my Glock!

[GLOOB]

You can submerge your unloaded gun in 10W-30 motor oil for an hour, pull it out, slap a loaded mag in it, and I'll guarantee it will run that mag and the next fifty mags you feed it.

And if you don't clean it at all, we know you can get over 7,500 rds. So which one do you think will fail, first?

You can absolutely overlube a Glock or any other firearm. They do pick up more gunk when you are putting oil where it's not needed. And some parts should specifically never be lubed - striker channel on a Glock and gas port on an AR, for instance - for that very reason.

Aside from the barrel, I clean my Glock with a dry nylon brush and only apply a smidge of oil where it's (arguably) needed. The dry residue falls away, and it doesn't get dirty, again, as fast. Submerge it in oil, and you'd make your job much harder the next time around. You'll also accelerate wear if your gun is exposed to abrasive dust, say a sandy environment. You know what lapping compound is, right? Oil/wax + abrasive dust.

 

[scaatylobo]

All my tools

I clean all my tools no matter what they are designed or used for.

I sharpen all my blades and even wipe off my hammers,axes,hawks,etc.

I clean my Glocks after shooting,with the exception of my target G-35 that I use for shooting team.

I only clean it after the season is over,many shooters follow that superstition.

All my other guns get cleaned and oiled and then the oil is wiped off.

They all 'appear' dry.

Do as you please,and believe me = I will do the same.

I am 65 and can rely on any of my guns to save my butt ,s'all I can ask of um.

But still I carry a BUG,they are only a simple tool and as prone to failure as any tool.

 

[Trent]

Yeah, all this talk about cleaning guns.

I took a spotless FS2000 that was freshly cleaned the day before Thanksgiving, on Thanksgiving day to let my cousin shoot it in the back yard. Throw an empty green bean can off the back deck, hand him a mag (he already had the rifle).

He put the mag in and slapped the charging handle down. I notice the cocking lever didn't move all the way forward. Say "hold on, hand me that."

Pop open the cover and see a round 1/2 way in the chamber. Have to remove the magazine and cycle twice to get it ejected. Round was bent to hell and gone.

I'd never, ever had a jam on that rifle. Ever.

Went through the other 29 rounds without a problem.

Problem is, I keep that rifle tucked away in the livingroom as a back up to my Taurus PT92 I keep on my person. I rely on that rifle. The Taurus PT90 is kept Condition 1, the FS2000 is kept in condition 3. It's a "back up rifle", if you will. If the handgun fails or isn't sufficient that rifle should be.

Except .. now I don't trust to keep it in condition 3.

If someone kicked in my door and I went for that rifle first, by the time I'd cleared that initial jam I'd be in deep trouble.

Now I have an AK47 in condition 3 sitting where it used to sit. A dirty. Ugly. AK.

Firearms failures rattle me bad.

Still trust my Glock. Dirty or not.

Still trust that PT92, if it's clean.

Don't trust the FS2000. I *used* to... until yesterday.

 

[Trent]

Yeah, all this talk about cleaning guns.

I took a spotless FS2000 that was freshly cleaned the day before Thanksgiving, on Thanksgiving day to let my cousin shoot it in the back yard. Throw an empty green bean can off the back deck, hand him a mag (he already had the rifle).

He put the mag in and slapped the charging handle down. I notice the cocking lever didn't move all the way forward. Say "hold on, hand me that."

Pop open the cover and see a round 1/2 way in the chamber. Have to remove the magazine and cycle twice to get it ejected. Round was bent to hell and gone.

I'd never, ever had a jam on that rifle. Ever.

Went through the other 29 rounds without a problem.

Problem is, I keep that rifle tucked away in the livingroom as a back up to my Taurus PT92 I keep on my person. I rely on that rifle. The Taurus PT90 is kept Condition 1, the FS2000 is kept in condition 3. It's a "back up rifle", if you will. If the handgun fails or isn't sufficient that rifle should be.

Except .. now I don't trust to keep it in condition 3.

If someone kicked in my door and I went for that rifle first, by the time I'd cleared that initial jam I'd be in deep trouble.

Now I have an AK47 in condition 3 sitting where it used to sit. A dirty. Ugly. AK.

Firearms failures rattle me bad.

Still trust my Glock. Dirty or not.

Still trust that PT92, if it's clean.

Don't trust the FS2000, clean or dirty. I *used* to... until yesterday.

 

[Trent]

By the way, this looks like as good a place to ask as any, and I've been wondering.

What is the failure mechanism from a too-dirty gun? Do the rounds not feed anymore due to a dirty chamber or feed ramp? Does the slide not cycle correctly due to gunk in the rails? I've been curious. Say you had a lot of rounds through the gun and didn't have any cleaning supplies on hand (except a dry rag), but you needed to do something right on the spot to help reduce the odds of a malfunction. What would you do?

Mostly, my experience is failure to chamber. Doesn't seem to matter WHAT gun, rifle or handgun. I've shot a few firearms to point of failure, and it always seems to be failure to feed. The H&K G3 (and most other H&K's) will fail to chamber when it's real dirty. And they get REAL damn dirty, due to the fluted chamber. I run those really wet now, and it's not unheard of to see me open the car hood to take oil right off my dipstick and drip on the bolt if I run out of CLP. (When I had my old pickup that ate more oil than gas, I'd just pour it right from the quarts of reserve oil I kept in the back seat.)

The only exception I've seen is the AR 15 - you don't get the gas tube receiving key cleaned on top of the bolt you can get carbon lock and it can fail to extract or extract partially and give you the dreaded double to clear.

Back to Glocks.

When Glocks get REAL dirty, and I mean REALLY dirty, the kind of dirty that'd make most guys cringe and yell and say you're abusing them, they'll start to run sluggish. The slide will lose some momentum - rounds might not chamber all the way, and you'll find that you have to tap the back of the slide to get them fully in to battery. I haven't had that happen in a long time due to grime, but those goofy wadcutters I shoot occasionally cause it all on their own so it keeps me on my toes (those rounds, BTW, won't even CHAMBER in an XD, and give my 1911 all sorts of fits).

When it starts to run sluggish you really don't NEED to clean it, per-se, just take the slide off and spray some CLP on it. It'll be running (and smoking) just fine in no time.

Watch for the mag-well tho, that gets dirty run a rag through it or you'll have problems with mags not dropping free. That'll slow you down. A lot.

Good to drill with for awhile though, before you fix it. Keeps you on your toes to go from smooth reloading to stubborn reloading.

 

[ku4hx]

but as I said be for your gun treat it how you like.

That's the key right there! We're all free to be as wise or unwise as we want to be and like beauty, wisdom in in the eye of the beholder.