How Many Dirty Guns Are Sitting Around Your House?

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I'm too busy with other things to be spending time cleaning guns. I've learned that you can avoid cleaning guns by not shooting them in the first place. (This also saves a bundle on ammunition.) It's been literally years since I've shot any of my many guns. Nowadays, when I buy another gun, it's with the intention of never shooting it. Everything gets well greased with RIG and put away. Note: this is the difference between a "collector" and a "shooter."
 
I have three shotguns, two rifles and a pistol waiting to be cleaned. Having no extra time and no air conditioning make cleaning them in the summer no fun.


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I didn't coin the phrase, but I saw it here and try to live by it:

"Don't let the sun set on a dirty gun."

To answer the question directly: None.
 
Guilty here!

Dirty guns used to drive me bonkers, I'm older and wiser now. I keep them wiped down and oiled and only clean them when they truly need it. I've got a Glock 17 with over 3,500 rounds through it over a period of three years that's never been cleaned at all!

Don't get me wrong, I know all my guns inside and out and none of them is abused, rusty, etc. I've just learned they don't need to be sparkling clean to function properly. My carry guns get the attention they deserve on a regular basis.
 
I actually don't have any that need to be cleaned. Thats rare. Unless you count the ones that I haven't shot in years and haven't been cleaned since the last time they were shot... Got a couple in that category.
 
None for me. Just part of my routine. I go to the range, and within an hour or two of getting home, I turn the TV on and sit down and clean any that I have shot.
 
I'd be interested to know the average annual round count of the shooters in the "clean after every range trip" crowd, vs. the "clean as necessary" crowd.

My own experience is that people who shoot a lot, and who know a lot about shooting, tend to not worry too much about storing a dirty gun.

-C
 
For the most part none, except for the ones I forget about when I don't get to them right away, usually after going out of town with the family and getting home late or have to go somewhere right after getting back from the range and time slips away(not sure if I am procrastinating, being lazy or just have attention disorder. I don't like it when I find a dirty one. Never more than a week or two if I remember. I have gotten worse about it but only because I have too many and take 4-5 with me to shoot, I have started getting the kids to clean with me so that keeps it in check also. Another benefit they seem to ask for less weapons to shoot after making that rule up. Go figure
 
I'd be interested to know the average annual round count of the shooters in the "clean after every range trip" crowd, vs. the "clean as necessary" crowd.
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Before I got married, anywhere between 10k and 15k a year. Somewhere between two and three hundred rounds a weekend, spread across two or three firearms per range trip. Sometimes more, during one range trip I burned through over 600 rounds of .45 ACP between a couple of 1911s and a semi-auto Thompson. I thought that trip was expensive when WWB valuepacks only cost about $15.

The amount of time I spend at the range has changed over the past few years due to a wedding, bad marriage, and now being a single parent, but my cleaning habits, or lack thereof, haven't.
 
Maybe I'd better start a survey. It seems that younger shooters (myself included, when I was under, say 40) clean their guns more regularly after shooting, and the 40 and over bunch (I'll be 59 this year) tends to not worry about it as much. Is that what everyone else is seeing here?
 
All my "safe queens", range toys, hunting rifles, skeet guns, and badass nightstand self-defense weapons were cleaned and oiled years ago. Then again, most of them haven't been fired in years.
On the other hand, because the varmints in my rural neighborhood feel that my vegetable garden and twenty tropical fruit trees are a buffet put out nightly for their benefit and I strongly disagree, my ancient Marlin .22 rifle standing loaded behind my bedroom door gets cleaned about once every six months.
Why bother cleaning it? It'll probably just get dirty again tonight!
 
I tend to clean guns when I am done with them. Right now, everything is clean, but it took me a couple weekends to clean all the thundersticks I took to the range for my coworkers' shooting trip a week and a half ago.

But, if I'm going to be shooting one next week, I might not clean it in between.
 
SharpsDressedMan said:
As I prepare to procrastinate cleaning my guns again, just wondered how many of you have some dirty guns always in the queue. I have 3 rifles waiting, (not counting my .22, which only gets cleaned every 4-6 months). My pistols were cleaned in two sessions last week, after finally feeling guilty about some of them. I used to get on them right after shooting, but now a dirty gun here and there is a daily thing. OK, High Roaders, fess up......
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ZERO! I shoot and I clean.
 
NONE

As I said over and over again, you fire one round, or a thousand rounds through your weapon, you clean it as soon as possible afterward. Period. End of story.
 
Byrd666, so you're saying that there is NO other way to do it? Cause I KNOW that there is. I shoot them and then leave them dirty. The gun still works. What do you think is going to happen if you leave your guns dirty? :D
 
Chris, you were never in the military, were ya? :D
My own experience is that people who shoot a lot, and who know a lot about shooting, tend to not worry too much about storing a dirty gun.
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During the summer my shooting may be twice a month if good, during the winter i try hard to go twice a week or so. Been shooting for 35 years. I clean every range trip. Beaten into my head while a Naval Gunners Mate, (Guns), on an ammo hauler back in the day, and rust is an ever present enemy at sea. Then again, that's just me. ;) Each to his or her own.:cool:
 
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