Just a little reminder for shooters new and old.

[cslinger]

I just picked up a new HK P2000 pistol and as I was doing my normal routine of cleaning the new gun I just thought I would mention to everybody.

The first thing you should do with every gun new or old (after reading the manual learning it etc.) is CLEAN IT. If for no other reason then to check for barrel obstructions. I would bet alot of new gun "break in" problems come from people not cleaning the gun first thing.

The new P2000 had a decent amount of snot all over the internal rails etc.

Anyway sermon over. Clean those guns.

Chris

 

[Ala Dan]

Great Info ~!

Cuz, yesterday I sold a NIB "snake charmer" .410 ga shotgun, and the
first thing that the customer did was to carry it home and FIRE it, w/o
properly cleaning it first. Then the empty hull would not eject out once
the weapon was breeched. Customer calls back, bitching that is gun is
broken~! So please, follow my friend cslinger's advice~!

 

[DontBurnMyFlag]

good advice. I took my new walther G22 bullpup rifle to the range and it kept jamming due to the anti-rust protective coating they had on the internals. plus the thing had basically no oil. cleaned it, now its amazing. I was an idiot. ha

 

[dragongoddess]

suffered similar problems with an Ak 74. Bought the weapon and went to the range a few days later to fire it and only got one round fired. Dang thing jamed and I couldn't get the round to eject and not to mention that there was so much smoke one woulf think I was laying smoke to cover a divisons movement.
The weapon was simply not clean.

I expressed my displeasure at the gun shop and was told to bring the AK in for a cleaning. Not only did they clean it but gave me 4 mags to boot along with their apology.

So I will in the future clean the weapons before using them for the first time.

 

[mljdeckard]

I bought my dad a ruger single-six a few years ago for father's day. We went out to shoot it, and he was ready to load and fire it out of the box, luckily, there was a moron on a bike in the distance, so we waited for him to go away, and I pulled out a .22 bore brush and a bottle of hoppe's. My dad was surprised to see how much preserving oil there was in the bore. (He learned from his father, you must, without exception, clean your guns once after each war.)

 

[El Tejon]

We learn our lessons slowly.

BTDT, cs, don't feel bad.