Cleaning my gun

I would say depends on how many rounds you fired and if you are going to use it very soon. I take 4 or 5 guns to the range and some I don't shoot enough to warrant a full cleaning. But all guns get a good wipe down with a lightly oiled rag.:) I take the same guns to the range two or three time for the week and then ALL get a good cleaning:)
 
Is it your primary or even back up SD gun? Cause folks that carry, carry a clean gun if they know what is good for them. Or are pros. SOme folks get lazy and don't clean their range plinkers very often, or their .22's at all. I guess they have a hard time finding that tiny hole in the muzzle or something. For me it is a matter of pride or some other characteristic that some might classify with a demeaning psycobabble term, but I clean them all when I shoot them. Not a detail strip into a pile of parts, mind you, field strip and clean em. Never know what might happen, eh?
 
Probably not. I know guys that never clean their guns. One friend has a glock 27 for daily carry and he hardly ever cleans it. It's a glock :rolleyes:. I borrowed my uncle's S&W 5906 (not a daily carry) to shoot and he said he probably hadn't cleaned it in 15 years. After he got it out, I believed him. It still shot just fine though. After I shot that 5906 a little, brought it in and cleaned it up, the internals looked liked a SS gun again instead of blued:)

Not me though, I am kind of "anal" they say. If I shoot even one round through any gun of mine, it gets taken apart and cleaned. Probably not necessary, but I like to do it and I like having a clean gun.
 
I clean my carry gun and self defense guns every time lead is down the pipe, whether that is 1 round or 500 rounds. I tend to clean my .22's about every other session, depending on the ammunition I am using.

I also try to clean my infrequent guns at leat once a month for safeties sake.
 
Well clean is clean, if you put them away clean, the only thing to do is take them out once in awhile for inspection and maybe an external wipedown or something. I don't clean inactive guns once a month.
 
It's a machine. If it's dirty and you care about it working, then clean it

No 'ifs' or 'buts'. If you care about it working, after you dirty it, clean it. If you don't give a fiddly F about it, then don't clean it. It's your crummy pitted rusty pile of junk not mine. ;) I know guys who don't change the oil in their cars, too- I don't pay their bills, what do I care that they need to get the things fixed often

My firearms are all clean as new whistles, and they always go 'bang' when I want them to go 'bang'
 
It's a tool. Clean it when it needs it to maintain function. Or if it's for carry, keep it clean enough to not mess up your clothes.

Imagine two handymen. One has a tool belt filled with obviously used paint-splattered screwdrivers, pliers, wrenches, and a hammer that looks like it helped build the ark. The other has a belt that shows no wear and tools that look like they just came out of the Sears shopping bag. Do you assume the first handyman can’t trust his tools because they are scratched and dirty? Do you hire the second because he “takes care” of his tools?
 
If I shoot Pyrodex out of any of my guns, then yes I do clean them immediately after getting home. If the ammunition you are using is corrosive, then yes clean the gun.
It wont cause harm if you are using modern non-corrosive ammo and then left it uncleaned for sometime.
 
Cleaning a firearm also includes inspecting it. ;)

If you know you can trust the clean handyman to do the job right every time but the sloppy looking one just does "alright" and is fairly reliable, then I would prefer the clean handyman over the one with the nicked tools

You aren't hiring the man's toolbelt, you're hiring him. The example of comparing the firearm to a handyman has very limited value

A firearm is a tool, but it's not a hammer. Hammers are not machines while a firearm is. Some machines have tight tolerances, and some have loose tolerances. SOme can take abuse while others can't take abuse

Maintaining the machine properly helps it function to it's potential. Don't clean the gun if you don't want to. I clean mine because I know something about clean machines working better

I don't care if nobody else in the world cleans their own guns but it will be a difficult argument convincing me to not clean mine each time they are fired. 1 round or 1000. Within 24 hours is my general rule but it's never been more than 4 or 5. I've never 'cleaned it in the morning'. They are clean and ready to go right away, which makes me confident in both their safety and full functionality, which is pretty much the same thing in my opinion. I'm looking for cracks, worn springs, missing screws, etc etc while I clean, then after it's clean I do a function check. For me this means maximum confidence, minimum worry
 
Yes.

A well used weapon should look well-used not dirty.

Plus, there was a story on TFL a while back about a LEO who had just been to the range and then needed to shoot a guy but his gun wouldn't fire. Evidently the firing pin had broken on the last shot at the range. If you clean your gun when your done shooting you won't get a surprise like that poor fella did.:eek:
 
I clean my guns after every range session, regardless of number of rounds fired. Its half the fun!

It may wait a day or two if I am busy, but my guns are always stored cleaned and oiled.
 
Feel free to suspect my character. I have neither the time nor inclination to clean a half-dozen or so firearms three or four times a week. That would cut too deep into my reloading time :).


Plus, there was a story on TFL a while back about a LEO who had just been to the range and then needed to shoot a guy but his gun wouldn't fire. Evidently the firing pin had broken on the last shot at the range. If you clean your gun when your done shooting you won't get a surprise like that poor fella did.
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C'mon, was he supposed to clean the thing before he left the firing line? How do you protect yourself from the FP breaking on the last dry fire when you function test the firearm after cleaning? If this actually happened it was a fluke and nothing more.
 
I think the point was it was his Duty weapon and his life potentially depends on it, not that he should clean it .0005 miliseconds after firing

I think the point could further be taken that if your life depends on something, you tend to take care of it :)
 
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