armoredman
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All of them, then I will know if I need to change anything.Wondering how many members have a handgun that that they shoot straight out of the box (except maybe adjust sights or change grips.)
Of course you clean and lube it.
All of them, then I will know if I need to change anything.Wondering how many members have a handgun that that they shoot straight out of the box (except maybe adjust sights or change grips.)
Of course you clean and lube it.
Yep, broke my own rule of not posting till I read all the words.If you had read my posts carefully, I answered the OPs post with respect to his stipulations.
Take a look at my subsequent posts, too.
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I always took "straight out of the box" to mean that you would trust it to just load the gun and carry it and bet your life on it, "straight out of the box", which for me, there are only a few I would be comfortable enough to trust to do that. Doesnt mean there arent others, Im sure there are, but from experience, you wont know that, until you've put a couple of cases through them to know.It's a good question to clarify, and NORMALLY I would have interpreted the question itself to mean "load it up and shoot it straight out of the box". I don't do that, for the reasons I mentioned before.
But it appeared to me that the OP had placed stipulations on what he meant, which fell into alignment with what I do.
I generally skip the clean and lube part of that. I'm not really sure why someone would do any of that before shooting the weapon, unless the sights were visibly way off and the grips were replaced purely for cosmetic reasons. Even then, seems like it'd make sense to shoot the gun first to make sure you wanted to keep it before changing grips. Unless we're talking about guns that come with replaceable grip panels, like an M&P?Wondering how many members have a handgun that that they shoot straight out of the box (except maybe adjust sights or change grips.)
Of course you clean and lube it.
Yep, broke my own rule of not posting till I read all the words.
Although I could blame the 1 year old that was trying to eat my breakfast at the time.......
Wondering how many members have a handgun that that they shoot straight out of the box (except maybe adjust sights or change grips.)
Of course you clean and lube it.
That's because it's a phenomenal firearm.HK P7M8
Shot from out of the box with NEVER a single problem. I didn't clean it, I didn't oil it, I just shot it.
Not one problem.
I have owned my HK P7M8 since 1985 and never had a jam, failure to feed, stove pipe, failure to eject or anything like that.
If nothing else, I find that some brands come with a liberal coating of sticky preservative all over everything. I tend to wipe those ones down before doing just about anything else with them!I generally skip the clean and lube part of that. I'm not really sure why someone would do any of that before shooting the weapon, unless the sights were visibly way off and the grips were replaced purely for cosmetic reasons. Even then, seems like it'd make sense to shoot the gun first to make sure you wanted to keep it before changing grips. Unless we're talking about guns that come with replaceable grip panels, like an M&P?
I don't, I've found enough grease, assembly lube, and the like inside firearms to want to at least strip them to parts first.I generally skip the clean and lube part of that