Does anybody ever really clean their firearm?

[DAVIDSDIVAD]

I will clean and clean and clean my carry gun like there's no tomorrow.

My 590 will get cleaned to the point of "pretty good", then lubed and put away.



Seriously though, most of the time, I will clean my 1911's bore until every tiny piece of fouling (even in the tiny space between lands and grooves) is scrubbed out.

Honestly, I need to buy a Lewis lead removing device.

 

[sohcgt2]

Maybe its because I had an anal retentive armor when I was in the military, but yes I always clean to the point that an oiled patch comes back clean. If you use the right chemicals it won't take that long.

 

[f4t9r]

Clean your firearms ??
Who has the time. I just use them till they do not work anymore,then buy new ones.

 

[Shrinkmd]

MPro7 soak for the action, foaming bore cleaner for the barrel. Revolvers get scraped to get all the lead off/out, and Mpro7 plus bronze brush can get almost all the blast rings off the cylinder. A little lead away cloth finishes the job.

I have to say, I find cleaning a semi auto pistol the easiest. Revolvers have more nooks and crannys, and if you shoot lead (or a 22 revolver) they get weird build up everywhere. I feel like a revolver is like a big lobster, there is meat in lots of places besides the tail and the claw, and you need to dig it all out.

I miss Maine.

 

[kanewpadle]

If it's a gun I carry, it gets cleaned right away. Otherwise I get to them with a couple days. Every once in a while I put them in my ultrasonic cleaner. Gets them real clean.

 

[RDak]

I usually clean my guns very well during the first 500 rounds when they are new every time they are shot.

Every new or old gun I buy gets a stripped soaking and nylon brush scrubbing in Ed's Red for a few hours. Then periodically, every year or two, they get stripped and soaked again.

After my new gun break-in cleaning I just clean on an "average" basis. Not fussy about getting everything out because I don't think it is possible to get everything out.

FWIW, I store all my guns in a heat controlled safe and put them in bore stores.

 

[DAVIDSDIVAD]

If it's a gun I carry, it gets cleaned right away. Otherwise I get to them with a couple days. Every once in a while I put them in my ultrasonic cleaner. Gets them real clean.

I've been seriously thinking about buying one of those, but I'm having a tough time convincing myself to fork over the dough.

 

[ar10]

I clean as in U.S. Marine Corps clean. Other Marines or X-Marines will know what I mean.

My weapons have to be white glove inspection clean when they are being put away for more than a week. If I am shooting them for a match, I may not clean the bore but I will clean the action so it functions properly.

During my time in the Corp we sort of figured out that "busy hands are happy hands". In other words they, and I mean the NCO's wanted you to keep busy doing something, and that something was cleaning your weapons. On our way to Vietnam aboard the troop ship, if you weren't on some detail you were cleaning your weapon. After we landed and ended up at the duty stations all of the "cleaning" sort of went out the window and there were times when we didn't/couldn't clean our weapons for 2~4 weeks at a time. It was really up to the individual to decide when to clean, and it was every important and always in the back of our minds for obvious reasons.

 

[Kind of Blued]

I clean my guns when I either:

A) Feel like it (almost never)

B) Malfunction (never)

If a gun malfunctions before I feel like cleaning it, I'd sell it. I also throw them in the dirt from waist height pretty regularly. I understand this makes some people cringe.

My Remington 1100 has 1000 rounds through it since I cleaned it and it still cycled ~200 rounds of wussy birdshot the other day. That's a keeper.