Cleaning my M590a1

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Fygg Nuuton

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I love this gun! I can't stress this enough. My only complaint is that it seems to take forever to clean the barrel. Is there a trick to this? I've never owned a shotgun before this, so maybe there is some trick I'm not getting. Or it is entirely possible it should take forever to get this thing clean. Any insight?
 
I only soak the cloth in rem oil and run it through the barrel when i do light amount of shooting, once a year ill take the time to run the brush through and really get it all out but running the cloth through till it comes out clean is enough to prevent anything bad

Also, you should pull everything apart to clean the internals too every so often
 
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I don't do it often, but if I get some heavy duty wad build up, I will chuck my cleaning rod in my battery operated drill and give it a go.
 
You guys are killing me .....

I clean a gun every time I shoot it. I use a spray cleaner / Shooter's Choice - spray and let it set in barrel for 30 sec or so ... brush it / run some clean patches thru it / maybe a little Break Free on the last patch thru it and it should be clean.

Drop the trigger out / clean out the receiver ... etc ...and that gun will last you a lifetime or longer. You have the barrel off to clean it anyway / why not do the rest of the job ...??

To thoroughly strip, clean and reassemble a pump gun probably takes a good 30 min ...but after you've done it 20 times ... / its a piece of cake ...
 
I'm with BigJimP on this one. No weapon goes back in the cabinet until it has been thoroughly cleaned and lubed. If ever I need it, I want it to fire.

I normally soak a 12 gauge mop and run it through the barrel a few times. Then a brush, then a nice big patch (or 3).
 
I guess I gave the wrong impression. I was only giving him minimal advice since it sounded like he was dong bare minimum anyway. I keep my 590a1 full cleaned and lubed at all times since its my go-to-gun god forbid **** were to hit the fan ;)
 
Oh, yeah, no. I take the whole damn thing apart and clean it. This is my home defense gun as well as a fun time, I keep it in working order. It just seemed like the barrel never wanted to get fully clean, so I was asking for any tips :-p
 
I used to be a lot more meticulous when I shot a gas gun. With an over under, I give it a spray and wipe down, pull a bore snake through the tubes before it goes in the case at the range. It gets a thorough break down once a month with the ejectors removed and cleaned. Twice a year I remove the stock and clean the internals. I only shoot about a thousand rounds a month and it really doesnt get all that dirty. If I get caught out in the rain, then it gets a full breakdown and thorough cleaning when I get home.

I only used the drill once when I shot two flats over a weekend and had a significant amount of plastic build up. I scrubbed for an hour before I broke out the drill.
 
Here's something you may not be aware of:
For Skeet shooters, if you're not using a carrier barrel rig, there are many times when you need a quick cleaning of your 12-ga bores to allow the insertion of the sub-gauge tubes. For this, the fuzzy-stick (Tico Tool) works wonders. They are available in one and two piece models. I carry two of the them, the dirtier one goes in first with some solvent and the second one follows with a drop of oil on the bob. It takes only a few seconds to do both barrels. When the first one really gets nasty, it gets washed and becomes the oiler and the other one becomes the scrubber. If you're not a comp shooter, then just one stick will, especially with a single barrel gun, will be fine. They may seem a little expensive (so is a bore snake) but they last for years.

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If you've done a lot of shooting that day and have a good buildup of crud, besides BigJim's mention of Shooter's Choice (great stuff), another cheap alternative that get plastic fouling and crud out is the $2 can of brake cleaner from wally world - spray it in the barrel, let it sit a few seconds. I use a cleaning rod chucked in the cordless drill with a bronze brush to give it a good scrubbing, then run a few patches and it's clean and ready to go. A boresnake with a good cleaner will do a decent job if the crud buildup isn't too bad.

When I clean my 1100, there are a few other spots that get a good wipe down, and then a little lubrication.
 
Are you shooting all lead,copper what?

A lead build up may be a bit harder to clean than say copper. I've had to let cleaner soak in barrel overnight on a severely leaded barrel.
 
I don't think there are any secrets here Fygg ... just keep at it ...

I'm afraid of Brake Cleaner - but I know my buddy OneOunce uses it ... but I wouldn't want to get it on a stock .... and I'm not sure what it will do to some of the external finishes on a barrel either ... Maybe OneOunce can educated us ??
 
Rem Oil -- is just a light oil in a spray can .... depending on the finish that is on the wood ( some guns have oil finishes, some are varnish ..) it will soak into the wood in varying degrees.

I wouldn't put much / if any --- oil on a wood stock or for-end. You can was and buff a stock of course / like any wood part. If I've been out in the field or a sporting clays shoot on a wet day - I will spray a little bit of WD-40 on the stock and then wipe it down / and let it set and dry out good / before I put the gun back into my safe.

On unfinished parts of a wood stock ( like inside the for-end / or inside a stock ( at rear of receiver / under recoil pad / or under an adj comb ) ... I usually put some finish on them / like Danish Oil ( that has some varnish in it ) to give it some protection from absorbing water or oil.

I find oil finish guns - soak up way too much moisture ( like a Browning 525 or 625 series ) ... so I've stripped them, lightly sanded them and refinished them with a Tung Oil / Varnish mix ( 6 coats ) ...

this is my favorite ... from Brownells ....

http://www.brownells.com/.aspx/pid=5531/Product/PRO_CUSTOM_OIL_GUNSTOCK_FINISH
 
couldnt tell ya lol I really do not know, i use it on my diana pellet gun and a franchi I-12 diamond
 
The Franchi is probably a walnut stock ... It could have an oil finish or a varnish on it / if it has a shine to it ....its probably a varnish.

the pellet gun ... might be birch or something fairly utilitarian ....and they put a "paint stain - with some varnish in it" on them ....kind of dark brown ...

If its Varnish ( and varnishes come is softer vs harder formulas / Danish oil is a very thin and pretty soft varnish - spar varnish, is pretty hard and durable - verathane is pretty hard ) ...oil will probably not penetrate the varnish. The oil will probably just give it a "sheen" ...and then wipe off / come off in your hands.

But there might be a "chemist" out there / that will help educate us both..

( But this is all pertent to cleaning a gun / and taking care of a stock in the process, as I see it ).... You don't want to clean a gun with a product that will take the finish off your stocks ...)....
 
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