My conscience really bugs me if I put a gun away without cleaning it after a trip to the range. If I don't clean it that day, it will get cleaned within the week. And by cleaning, for instance, my M1A, which I took 2 days ago, will get stripped down to it's major components, and gone through with an acid brush, Q-tips and the gas tube and piston get cleaned every time.
Obsessive/compulsive? I dunno, I just like to take care of my stuff. Spent 10 years as an ejection seat mech and we used to strip those things down to bare structure, clean them up with PD-680 and dry them off, touch up paint, the whole works, not a speck of dust was on them when we finished. Then put them back together again and installed the charges and back in the plane. Maybe it's all those years of that routine that makes me clean the way I do, but it can't be bad for them.
Obsessive/compulsive? I dunno, I just like to take care of my stuff. Spent 10 years as an ejection seat mech and we used to strip those things down to bare structure, clean them up with PD-680 and dry them off, touch up paint, the whole works, not a speck of dust was on them when we finished. Then put them back together again and installed the charges and back in the plane. Maybe it's all those years of that routine that makes me clean the way I do, but it can't be bad for them.