How often do you clean your pistol?

[Hokkmike]

Today or tomorrow I will pick up my new Walther PPS .40. I am saying goodbye to my Beretta 9000s. Though it has been a good gun for me it is, by most gun writers' accounts, the red headed step child of the Beretta family. My only complaints were the grip is a little wide, the safety still hard to move, and the surface provided to grip for chambering the gun very small. It was consistant and shot on target.

So, as I aniticpate the new arrival I ponder how I will break it in, I actually got break-in advice for the Walther from the Glock forum (a nice bunch of guys), and how often I will clean it.

I cleaned my Beretta faithful no less than every other session. I don't knoe if it is possible to over clean these things. I doubt it.

How often do you strip and clean yours? Anybody actually let it go more than 500 rounds between cleanings?

 

[NoleMan]

After every use. Or, if on the off chance it sits for more than a month without beign fired, I clean it. Cleaning after every use is especially important in humid climates, like Florida.

 

[jeffmoline]

Full cleaning after every session....simple wipe down for lint and debris every other week.

 

[schmeky]

Not like I should. I shoot CZ's mostly and I will go 500+ rounds between cleanings. To make matters even worse, I shoot LWSC's with a grease groove.

My CZ-97 has gone 1,000 rounds before cleaning (not recommended), my SP-01/40 routinely goes over 500.

They both are dead nuts reliable.

 

[swmp9jrm]

After each range trip, and at least once a month if the gun hasn't been to the range.

 

[snorky18]

you guys clean your pistols?

 

[Beelzy]

I wipe the powder residue off and load a fresh mag for HD.

I don't want an oily pistol flopping around in my hands in the dark if I need to use it.

 

[boostedxt]

i clean mine every morning when i wake up, and at night my fiance helps me.....wait...what are we talking about again?







every trip to the range and a wipe down 1 time a month

joe

 

[wditto]

I shoot mostly 1911 ; don't clean 'em, don't need to

 

[Mad Magyar]

I shoot mostly 1911 ; don't clean 'em, don't need to
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That's nice to know.... I wonder what JMB would say?

 

[theotherwaldo]

I use my judgment, not a formula. I have .22s that have never been fully taken down and cleaned. I have black powder pistols that get cleaned every time I handle them.

The rest are somewhere in between.

 

[middy]

About every 1000 rounds or so.

 

[beltfed74]

If Im going to carry it or leave it in the nightstand I make sure its clean. Otherwise I clean them every 500rds which is usually once a week. I keep with either my Brown or Baer, I dont shoot more than one handgun outside of 22s at a time. So its range time for one, carry for the other.

Ive let my Baer TRS go 1200rds just wiping it off and a couple drops of oil while shooting it. Ive been told by the local old guy bullseye crew that tearing em down and cleaning them too much is worse on tightly fitted pistols than letting the go dirty. Its worked for me.

 

[EOD Guy in VA]

Immediately after every single use. I also check the lubrication on any that have sat in my safe for an extended period.

 

[jn1965]

I field strip and clean the TTC after every range trip but then I am shooting cheap corrosive ammo. If I was exclusively shooting non-corrosive I would probably let it go a bit longer. That being said it takes something like 5 minutes to field strip and clean a Tok and I figure if some illiterate Commie could do it, so could I

 

[Quadkid]

i actually find it relaxing so i do it after each time at the range, doesnt matter if i shot 100 rds or 5, ill clean them.

Nothing like some gun cleaning and a movie.haha.

 

[Dobe]

Every 1000 - 1500 rounds. I have been shooting about 600 + round per week, and I generally don't clean after every shooting.

 

[Bobo]

I clean mine after each range visit.

Bobo

 

[Mad Magyar]

i actually find it relaxing so i do it after each time at the range, doesnt matter if i shot 100 rds or 5, ill clean them.

Nothing like some gun cleaning and a movie.haha.

+1 Are you my long-lost Hungarian cousin?

 

[sohcgt2]

Every time I go to the range I clean every thing that was fired, sometimes that is more than 500 rds. but even if I only fire 1 round it still gets cleaned and re-oiled prior to storage. "Nothing like some gun cleaning and a movie.haha." I like the Bourne movies or Man on Fire for cleaning time.

 

[Mags]

Monthly for the daily carry guns and after every range trip for all others.

 

[skoro]

I clean any gun after I've shot it. If I get one out to handle/dry fire, it gets a wipe down with a silicone cloth before being put away.

 

[gga357]

Every 500 rounds or so. The exception is when I shoot HS6 reloads. Can't wait to finish up the rest of my HS6, dirty stuff.
That could be 2-5 range sessions, depends on how many guns I take with me.

 

[GRIZ22]

A clean gun is a happy gun and a happy gun will take care of you.

Clean after every use.

 

[larryh1108]

I clean mine after every range visit. I tell my buddies that I enjoy cleaning them almost as much as I do shooting them. The word "theraputic" was used and it is a very good word. If it's been a month since I've shot it they get a cleaning "just because".