Cleaning a Glock's bore
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meanmrmustard
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I've only ever owned one, and I've yet to do so myself.
bbuddtec
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...another "mutant" who makes clean w/ the k stuff and glock brush, big whoop. oh I also use a nylon brush on the breech face, lug zone, etc. (those handy AR brushes) and I run lead///
lmccrock
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I got my Glock (Gen "nothing") when they had a tool, but no brush. I can screw a bronze brush into the end of it, and I do occasionally.
I think he meant he replaced them with aftermarket with lands and grooves.Some of my Glocks don't have hexagonal barrels!
Well, then you may have pentagonal (5), heptagonal (7), octagonal (8) etc. rifling barrels.
LiveLife
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Yup, don't buy into the internet notion that Glock's never need cleaning.
The design allows for more accumulation of fouling/gunk before operational failure than most other pistols but Glocks do need cleaning, eventually.
I clean the barrel after each range session and inspect the slide/frame and clean as necessary. Once a year, slide is taken apart and each component is inspected and cleaned/replaced as necessary (like springs).
The design allows for more accumulation of fouling/gunk before operational failure than most other pistols but Glocks do need cleaning, eventually.
I clean the barrel after each range session and inspect the slide/frame and clean as necessary. Once a year, slide is taken apart and each component is inspected and cleaned/replaced as necessary (like springs).
KJS
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Glock barrels with hexagonal rifling - as you can see, the bore is round and not polygon in shape.
As to OP, Glock's barrels are surface hardened like the slide and won't be harmed by softer metal bore brushes. I use bronze, copper and even stainless steel bore brush with no damage to the surface. The barrels above have tens and thousands of jacketed, plated and lead rounds shot through and cleaned with Hoppes #9 solvent and copper/stainless steel bore brush. Do you see any scratches? Nope, close inspection will show the surfaces are in like-new condition.
I've never yet had any barrel so fouled as to need a stainless steel brush. Just to be on the safe side, I'd prefer to avoid using steel to clean any gun if at all possible.
And you do indeed have some exceptionally pristine barrels there. If you hadn't told me, I would have guessed they were factory new.
KJS
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I bet gang bangers who stuff then in their waist band sans holster never clean them.Wait... you have to clean Glocks?
Makes me wonder how many gang bangers have found "decocker" can have painful double meaning that way? Bet you didn't know Glocks came with a decocker, did you?
LiveLife
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Thanks.
Tenifer treatment of Glock's barrel and slide surfaces have the hardness of 64 HRC on the Rockwell scale, which is very hard (diamond has a hardness of 70 HRC) - http://firearmshistory.blogspot.com/2010/08/metal-treatments-ferritic.html
The use of stainless steel bore brush was done in the past to remove stubborn fouling residue along the rifling after shooting lead loads (see picture on the right). Now I use old copper bore brush wrapped with copper scrubber strands like Chore Boy dipped in Hoppes #9 - a few strokes back and forth and the barrel comes out clean and shiny.
This is the before picture of the same barrel
And after cleaning (these barrels have tens of thousands of rounds shot through showing the virtues of Tenifer surface hardening treatment).
Tenifer treatment of Glock's barrel and slide surfaces have the hardness of 64 HRC on the Rockwell scale, which is very hard (diamond has a hardness of 70 HRC) - http://firearmshistory.blogspot.com/2010/08/metal-treatments-ferritic.html
The use of stainless steel bore brush was done in the past to remove stubborn fouling residue along the rifling after shooting lead loads (see picture on the right). Now I use old copper bore brush wrapped with copper scrubber strands like Chore Boy dipped in Hoppes #9 - a few strokes back and forth and the barrel comes out clean and shiny.
This is the before picture of the same barrel
And after cleaning (these barrels have tens of thousands of rounds shot through showing the virtues of Tenifer surface hardening treatment).
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LOL I prefer my gangbangers to be untrained nincompoops.
bds,
That's still a fine looking barrel you got there. It makes me realize why I still haven't felt the need to get an aftermarket barrel for my Glocks after 6 years of shooting them.
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