Do most of the women gun owners in your family clean their own guns?

Do most of the women gun owners in your family clean their own guns?

  • Yes.

    Votes: 33 22.6%

  • No.

    Votes: 98 67.1%

  • Other.

    Votes: 15 10.3%
  • Total voters
    146
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My wife used to clean hers and mine. Since she got sick and almost died a couple of years ago, she can't anymore, but I'm just glad to have her still with me to go shooting with once in a while.

I'll clean her gun for her.
 
1. I won't let her, I've eaten her cooking.

2. She has no clue how to do it, and takes instruction from me badly; which is to say, she doesn't take it at all.

3. She---And I hate to make this public, gulp-------Hates the smell of Hoppes #9.

4. She is an angel, but in the interest of marital bliss & another 20 years of happiness, I will also refrain from expecting her to butcher game, change the oil in my truck, clean my K&N's, shine my shoes or cut my hair.

5. All of the above will also apply to reloading; I have way yonder too much life insurance to take that risk.
 
Call us Neanderthals, but we still believe some work is best done by men and others by women. My wife doesn't clean guns or work on cars and I don't cook or run the vacuum cleaner (except for the shop vac out in the garage).

--wally.
 
not only does she clean her own firearms, she builds them. She will watch me and copy what I've done. If she wants a scope, I'll set it up and she finishes it.

When I hunt, she hunts. She helps clean and process the harvest. On saturday night she help bring in our third gator, 8'10". The wife held the line while I hit it in the head with a bangstick.
 
Don't think my mom ever cleaned a firearm. Though I do recall her making breakfast while dad and I or brother and I cleaned them.
 
My wife is not mechanically inclined. Period. Nor can she cook. I cook dinner, she washes the dishes and eats leftovers for lunch. We go shooting, I clean the guns. We go fishing I clean and cook the fish. I bathe the kids and she cleans up the house after them. We've pretty much settled into a natural division of labor. I hate cleaning the house or dishes, but I take care of the things I'm good at. As her friends are envious of her, I think we do just fine.
 
When I first went with the boys to shoot at a friend's friend private property in Warrenton, the next day I had a good time with them learning how to disassembled my gun and learning how to clean it. Since then I have always cleaned my own gun next day after shooting. Every now and then I do not know how and why I cannot disassemble my gun and asked for help but I like to think I am independent enough to do it myself. While my friends in Ozland envy me for owning and using a gun, I pride myself in having one, so I think it is just fair that I clean my own gun myself.
 
well, there's cleaning and there's cleaning.

with much prodding, i can get my wife to clean a gun on the rare instances she actually practices with one. but then i end up cleaning it again anyway, because my standards for gun cleaning are much higher. so that's the downside.

on the upside, she does the vast majority of all other household cleaning (dishes, laundry, sweeping, dirty diapers, etc, etc, etc). and i think it's safe to say that her standards are much higher than mine in those areas. so i'd say that my occasional cleaning of a gun for her is more than made up by what she does for the household.

i say pick your battles carefully. i also think it's worth cleaning their guns to get them into shooting. it might save their life one day.
 
I clean the guns, she cleans the house, dishes and toilets! Life, just like it was meant to be.
 
Hmmm...I am good at cleaning and organizing the house too, but when it comes to cleaning my gun, I am such a newbie cleaner and DH knows this so after cleaning it, I always asks him to inspect it just in case I had forgotten a little bit here and there like lubricating the trigger. He likes to make sure I did it well, too...but still I do not want to allow him to clean it and he always encourages me to do it myself. I think I am a gun-nut or something and I prefer to have another gun as a wedding anniversary gift in the next few days than agree to go to Barbados or the Phantom of the Opera. I had seen the latter twice and been involved in stage designing for a good while when I was living full time in Melbourne so that is no big loss...Barbados? I haven't been though I had travelled a lot (and still do) for photographic assignments, but another gun to practice on? That will be heaven to have!!! and clean as well...I'd like to think I will be proficient in both cleaning and shooting one day...:rolleyes:
 
Where do you go to trade in a GF for a wife that will clean up cat yak!:confused:

Seriously all the females in my life-the ones that shoot anyway,can and are most willing to maintain the armor as well as the home. There are more arguments at family outings about who will shoot what than anything else.:D She always says she can't see why we don't argue about something important.:rolleyes: She sure can make a doughnut out of a target though. :eek: BTW I am not so blessed.:banghead: Be assured the rest of the family adores her.:cool:
 
I clean them all. The wifes, the nephews, the neices and when she comes home the daughters. If I didn't There would be wimmin and younguns in the man cave!!! That's reason enough.
 
Ive tried to teach my sister and my mom to do it, both know how, they just don't. But its alright, i like cleaning them anyways.
 
i voted no because i don't clean my guns. my wife and daughter don't clean their guns either.
 
Exactly, I have shot thousands of rounds through my "practice" glock and never cleaned it - not a single malfunction . . . . but I still wouldn't try it with my non-practice gun.
 
We must be unusual or wierd, not sure. She can do anything. Right beside me shoulder to shoulder and look good doing it. Then again pushing 60 has given us many years of practice.
Y'all should be so blessed.
 
My wife doesn't just clean her own, we clean the entire collection. Then trade guns and inspect each others work. We also shoot together, took our ccw class together, took hand gun courses together, took instructor courses together, and reload together. In fact everyone in my family does it together. It's the most fun we've ever had. And after years, we still do it just about every weekend.
 
My mother cleaned her own guns, but other then that they aren't that into the hobby. However, my wife is much more interested. Just getting her into guns. She was raised in the city and never had any contact with them before getting together with me. She's a solid aim though. I know she will probably start cleaning her own shortly. She gets mad at me when if she is trying to work on the car and I offer to do it. She likes being capable.
 
Nope.

My wife carries daily and has her own guns for SD, HD, and hunting... but I do all of the maintenance on them.

She is quite squared away on their operation and could do it if need be, but she is very sensitive to strong odors and doesn't like being around the solvents, oils, etc.

She does so much, above and beyond, for me and the kids all day/every day that I don't mind doing this for her, along with a few other chores she just doesn't particularly care for (vacuuming also comes immediately to mind -- she hates it and I don't mind it).
 
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