If I've shot a couple of boxes through a gun, OR if the gun is going to be stored for awhile before I shoot it again, I will always clean it before I put it away. As those two conditions are almost always true, I almost always clean everytime. The one exception is the guns that are kept up at our ranch. We have such limited space that it's hard to set up for a good cleaning session, though I *could* do it on the coffee table (I do here at home). We keep a 10/22 up there, and a .44 carbine which doesn't get shot often anyway; the 10/22 has been left now for, oh, 500 rounds maybe.
I seriously doubt that cleaning is going to "wear out" a gun, any more than washing my pots and pans will wear them out. Less, as I don't usually take steel wool and Brillo pads to my guns
I'd rather they be clean than worry about gunk and crud building up. But that's me.
Jan
I seriously doubt that cleaning is going to "wear out" a gun, any more than washing my pots and pans will wear them out. Less, as I don't usually take steel wool and Brillo pads to my guns
I'd rather they be clean than worry about gunk and crud building up. But that's me.
Jan