How often do you clean your guns?

[amprecon]

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.

 

[GCW5]

I clean my CCH gun after every range session. All the rest get it once a year, in Feburary.

 

[RLsnow]

if you clean your guns more than you clean yourself i think its enough *laugh*

 

[sinistr]

keeping your guns clean greatly reduces wear,and also helps maintain overall firearm disipline.take care of your equipment and it will take care of you.

 

[Owens]

Depends on what I have shot on a range trip. If centerfire, it gets cleaned that day usually, or may wait till weekend, but no longer. If rimfire, after 2 trips. I don't run hundreds of rounds with the rimfire on a single trip. May take 2-3 trips to run a couple hundred rounds of rimfire. Busy schedules don't always leave a lot of time for trigger time, or as I call it...therapy!

 

[XD-40 Shooter]

I do a bore and action cleaning after every range trip. About every 300 rounds, I do a field strip and clean on all my guns.

 

[rugbyer81]

I clean thoroughly after every time I shoot them. The way I see it, I payed good money for those firearms, and I'm going to take care of them.

 

[ServiceSoon]

At least after every time I shoot them or wipe them down with oil once per month, which ever occurs first.

 

[Roebuck]

After every outing, whether they are used or not.

Roebuck.

 

[esmith]

Depends how much I have shot and what i have shot.

150 and upwards of .22 i usually clean it.
Any corrosive i clean it.
Shotgun i usually clean it cause its easy and doesn't harm the gun if i over clean it.

 

[koja48]

Religiously, but . . . I have .22s, highly accurate that don't see a brush. Carry pieces/handguns are always thoroughly cleaned & on a regular schedule. Firearms that sit unused are also on a schedule. Hunting rifles I plan on using in the near future are cleaned at the range, then I put a fouling shot through them. Shotties are cleaned after a weekend of use. Complete tear-down depends on amount of use & AR platforms are well-lubed. Airguns are always properly lubed & wiped-down (with airgun lube only) & modestly cleaned/bore wiped-out when accuracy wanes (a squeeky-clean barrel is also woefully inaccurate). I also religiously clean & lube my reloading presses & dies, then keep a dust cover over them. Jeep is typically clean on the inside, muddy on the outside (excluding the winch, which gets cleaned regularly) . . .

 

[MisterPX]

Once in a blue moon when I get really bored.

 

[possum]

there is nothing better than comming home from the range going out to my man shack which is my personal building outside, i can spread out, spray all the g96 spill all the hoppes i want and nothing will be said. i like cleaning just as much as shooting.

i clean after each ragne trips for the guns that are carry or hd guns, the others every other range trip or so.

if it has been a month or so since i shot one of the carry guns then i will knock the dust off and wioe it down and that is about it.

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

I do clean a gun after shooting it any amount, not usually right away, but before I take it out the next time. I do regard cleaning as a necessary evil; i.e., I believe it is drudgery and derive no pleasure from it, but know it has to be done.

 

[flynlr]

if I'm not cleaning my guns ...


where will I get my Hoppes Fix?