Can you OVER-clean a gun?

I usually field clean the bore and chamber of my 617 and 686 with a hoppes boresnake, some nitro followed by CLP right at the end of the shooting day, when the barrel is still hot. Then I wipe them both down with CLP and clean cloth. Dry lube on the action at times.

The 686 gets the full bore brush and scrubbing once every 3 months or so. Just got myself and Otis cleaning system - going to see how well that works this week.
 
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If your firearm knowledge is so lacking that you don't even know what "rifling" is, then I'm not sure you have the ability yet to understand pros and cons of answers given. At this point, either do what you want or accept consensus opinion of more experienced shooters. Don't expect us to summarize a lifetime of experience in a couple of paragraphs. You will also find that there are sometimes conflicting opinions on a topic. Choose one approach and go with it. When something happens to change your mind, then change it and go with the new method.

Good shooting and be safe.
LB

ps: The education obtained from school of "experience" is great but sometimes the tuition is high.
 
I clean mine after every session, but I elected to not use brushes on them. I just run patches soaked in Breakfree through them until the patches are clean, then some dry patches. It's been working fine on all of my revolvers without using brushes.
 
IMNSHO - no.

BUT---

You can ruin one in a hurry by doing something stupid to it though under the guise of "cleaning".
 
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