Didn't clean my Hi Power for thousands of rounds

[Newton]

Ok, so it's actually a FEG PJK-9HP, but I'm darned if I can tell a difference between it and the genuine HPs I've shot.

It's the gun that all my friends and acquaintances want to shoot so it gets to see a LOT of action, typically 300 rounds a session.

So curiosity got the better of me, and I let people shoot it for session after session with just lube on the rails and zero cleaning.

After a good 2,000 to 2,500 rounds the gun had still not had a single malfunction of any kind, but horrible clumpy wet sludge began to ooze out of the slide/frame interface, and the gun was visibly filthy - so time for a clean.

On removing the slide, clumps of black residue fell out of both the slide and frame, the feed ramp was just covered all over and bullets had actually carved out a channel through the crud during feeding. The area under the transfer bar was caked in crud and took a lot of cleaning out.

The barrel was surprisingly clean, I imagine that bullets have a "self cleaning" property all of their own.

I cleaned the gun until it was spotless, applied Tetralube, and holstered it.

Some guns those High Powers.

 

[hotpig]

I have a G17 that I bet has had over 8000 rounds fired and I have never cleaned it. I do have to add oil to the slide ever now and again. I use it at work so I may clean it if I keep it for a few more years.

 

[Cliff47]

A clean pistol is a happy pistol. After a while that 'crud' you described as oozing out of the pistol will act as a very fine form of an abarasive polishing material. Besides, you need some quality time with your pistol after a trip to the range, right?

 

[ruger270man]

I shoot about 2500 rnds a month through my Glock 34, and clean it about once every 2 months

 

[Dave R]

I'm glad someone else does this kind of stuff. I love reading about it, but would never do it myself.

BTW, I love my PJK-9HP too.

 

[Mad Magyar]

Let's see, somebody else will say, "I use bar-soap on my rails".:banghead: You keep pushing the threshhold of how far it will go w/o a malfunction in a dirty condition will cost you dearly one of these days...

 

[armoredman]

Pikers. We have Glock 17s and 19s, which get shot about 1000 rounds a week for training, and get cleaned about once a year. I don't like G-rocks, but most of them seem to be quite durable. My last qualification, I did have two FTF and one ejected from the magazine when it was stripped.