what's the first thing you do when you bring a new gun home?

[Andrew Wyatt]

whenever i bring a new gun home, i field strip it, look at everything to see if anything's amiss, clean it, and lube it, then i function check it with appropriately sized dummy rounds.

I've found problems on two guns this way that were easily solved with a minimum of fuss.

what do you do?

 

[LiquidTension]

I field strip guns at the store before I pay for them, just to make sure. This is especially true of used guns. When I get home, I detail strip them and clean off whatever goop is on them from the factory (if new). Then I lube like normal. Let the shooting begin.

 

[sm]

like this.
Then what you said.

( a friend said he Hides it...when the missus goes to work he does the above)

 

[Miss Demeanors]

Take pictures for the family photo album!

 

[benewton]

Read the manual!

Thence strip, inspect, clean and lube.

Then I take the rounds from either stock or the boxes I bought with it and take it out to the yard, where I function test it.

If it's a new caliber, that means 'till I run out of ammo, usually...

 

[lee n. field]

sneak it in the back door and down to my basement lair.

 

[Braz]

"take it out to the yard"

 

[.45Ruger]

First I take a picture and reord the serial numbe for my records. Then I clean and lube it.

 

[TonyB]

Shoot it in the back yard.
This winter when I got my SP101 there was like 3 feet of snow in the yard.So I chucked a soda can out onto the snow and shot at it from my portch............man I love living in the country.

 

[Lone_Gunman]

You aint supposed to take them apart till you break them in.

 

[Mastrogiacomo]

Basically do a little dance, then take it out and hold it and admire it for a few hours -- and dream about the gun range. In the interim, I read all about it and follow the manuel instructions. Before taking it to the range though, I give it a cleaning too.

 

[Standing Wolf]

I once took a gun straight from the shop to the range. It worked just fine. Almost all the time, I take it home, take it apart, clean it, glance at the manual, and take it shooting.

 

[Bruce H]

Pull a boresnake through the bore a few times, and shoot a couple of boxes of shells to zero the scope. If iron sights shoot to set them. See how well it will shoot with factory ammo. Take it home and clean everything that needs it. Go out the next day or the same day again and do it all over again. Country living is the only way.

 

[BlkHawk73]

Hide it until it's safe to bring out (when the mrs isn't home) read manual, dissassemble/reasseble to familiarize myself with it more. Rub it, carress it...uhh, I better stop there

 

[Zorro]

1. Clean it.

2. Get the manual for it.

3. READ #2!

 

[m.i.sanders]

I usually glance through the manual, just to get familiar with the controls, and then shoot it. Most times the reading is done when I get to the range.

 

[Mike Irwin]

I gently integrate it into the pack, while watching carefully to make sure that the other guns down gang up on the new member...

 

[Atticus]

"sneak it in the back door and down to my basement lair."

Gunrunning past the wife...hmmm...sounds familiar.
Then, about 11pm I clean and inspect it.
Now it is officially just another one of "those stupid guns".
Shoot it when I can.

 

[P95Carry]

Keywords ....... ''OGLE'' and ''FONDLE'' ..............

Then, if new, make sure bore and chamber (chambers) clean and go shoot at earliest opportunity!!

If pre-owned then same - plus ... prolly a strip down to inspect critically.

 

[G23Jake]

I just shoot till i get a miss fire then disassemble and clean it.

 

[Sisco]

First fondle & ogle. Like I hadn't already done that at the gunshop!
Read the manual, field strip it and give it a nice bath in Hoppes #9.
Put it all back together, if there are any parts left over, re-read the manual.
Record serial number, make, model and $$ paid and where I got it in an Excel program.
Ogle & fondle some more, get to the range as soon as possible and expend every round I have in that caliber.

 

[JeepDriver]

Clean it.

The shop I buy my handguns from is also an indoor range that I'm a member of. I never bring a handgun home w/o putting atleast 100 rounds through

 

[cool45auto]

Field strip it. Check it out. Lube it.

 

[Mizzoutiger]

I crawl into a dark corner and embrace it as if it were the embodiment of all that I love in this world.

"My precioussssss"

 

[Stevie-Ray]

I show the wife, "See Honey?"

"Yeah, so?"



Welp, we can't all be gun lovers. Sooooo then I take it lovingly down to the basement, where it gets field stripped and the royal treatment including cleaning, polishing, lubing, working-in, fondling, and generally gawked at. Then I'm usually jittery til my first trip to the range with my new baby. Never let it go longer than a week. Usually not more than a couple days.