Cleaning Your Guns

Carry gun gets a wide down at least twice a week. I sweat like a horse so I try to prevent rust. Others usualy get a quick clean before leaving the range. With a thorugh cleaning to follow sometime after I get home.
 
I thoroughly Clean and re lubricate all weapons taken after every range trip, after that, I just wipe them down with a silicone cloth each time they're handled.
 
The guns get cleaned before leaving range. Still nice and warm, if rifle, just bore. action gets quick wipe out (mostly single-shots and bolt guns) & wipe down with silicone gun cloth.
Revolvers get cyl. removed & while letting solvent soak, bore is cleaned.
I shoot at private club so probably makes it easier.
 
Any gun that I fire, even if only one shot, gets field stripped and cleaned when it gets home. My EDC carry gun gets wiped down every night at the end of the day before it goes on the night stand and if it does not get shot during the week, it gets field stripped and cleaned once a week.

Every one of my guns gets a detail cleaning every 500 rounds.

Old habits are hard to break. When in Vietnam, my rifle and pistol were cleaned three times a day and I am here to write about it with all my body parts in close formation. I never had a jam that the M-16 first generation was so infamous for.
 
First off, most guns don't need cleaned every range trip and dirty is a relative term. Is one shot dirty? How about 2? 10? 50? 1000? I may go out and shoot 1 shot a day hunting or 20. My range is in the back yard so I may do 12 rounds per session or 100 or anywhere in between and I may shoot anywhere between 1-4 guns in a day. There was a time when I was going out and putting 2 magazines thru a MKII Ruger on a daily basis. Am I gonna clean it every night for each 5 minute range session? Heck no.

I clean my guns down when they need it. Varies for each gun and for each trip.

LK
 
As a collector primarily. I have guns that I havnt cleaned in over 30+ years. These are in a climate controlled area. The ones I shoot I usually clean every once and a while. The ammo i use is clean and non corrosive.
 
+1 45Gunner...If it's gotta work, take the time to make it so. BTW, I don't clean the bore on any .22 lr that I own, just not necessary with the waxy coating of modern .22 lr bullets....BTW2...I've taken the time to check each of my long guns used for hunting to determine Zero change due to a cold, wet bore. I've found that a thin coat of Hoppe's, left in the bore after cleaning will prevent rust while hunting on a wet day...the impact shift for my .308, .35 Whelen, .35 Remington/Marlin and my Marlin .44 Magnum is about an inch at 100 yds...not enough to worry about for deer or elk. JMHO, Rodfac
 
I clean after every shooting and every 3 months.

My Son who is a LEO cleans once per month shot or not.
 
You could probably go 1000 rounds or so, but I usually clean after firing to some level of pretty clean. I clean to a spotless full breakdown(or as far as I need to go, annually).
 
cleaning your guns

I clean them after every trip to the range. Just the way I was taught. I believe they should at least be inspected if not cleaned after each use.
 
Lubed metal sweats out carbon over time

The last time I fired my HK P7M8 I cleaned it thouroughly, and I put it away very very clean - spotless!

Since I was mostly firing Glocks, I didn't fire my P7M8 at the range for a few months, but I took it out to look at it. It was wrapped in a cloth and in a case so no dust got in it, but there were tiny black specs here and there so I cleaned it from top to bottom again and I ended up with some blackened rags.

That was a month ago. Last night I took it out again because I'm going firing today. A month ago I ran a white cloth inside and out and it came out white. Last night running a white cloth over the same spots and it came back with some black spots.

So anyway, I like to clean my weapons even if I haven't fired them. If you're using a safe cleaner/lube like CLP, or even motor oil (Mobile 1) you can't clean them too much.
 
not very often

I have one gun with significant rd-ct that has never been detail-stripped by me since it came back from custom work and hardchroming around 1996 (thank you, Mr. Cogan).
Its rd-ct exceeds 70K.
It remains my primary major-caliber carry gun.

I have a gun going to a(nother) USPSA match this morning that I wipe off and shoot; it currently has at least 10K through it since IT was serviced by the manufacturer a couple years ago.



Just so I'm clear, I'll state my personal gun rules:

-First it MUST GO BANG
-It must do so with controllable accuracy
-It must do so regardless of condition or conditions.

After all, lives may be at stake, ay?
 
I clean after every range trip. That can vary from 50 rounds to over 400 rounds on a trip. Just preventing any build up.
 
Like you said, I keep my EDC clean. The only time I carry it dirty is on the drive home from that day's shooting. Otherwise, I prefer the idea that if I ever get accused of anything idiotic, LE will find a very clean handgun on my person. (call it a conspiracy theory, I'm just more comfortable with that)

As for my others, depends. If it's a gun that I know I will be shooting again within 2 or 3 weeks, I will likely not clean it and let it sit for another rotation to the range.

If it's my .30 Carb Blackhawk, I will clean the cylinder fully and pretty much only clean the bore every few hundred rounds. This gun is quite finicky with it's chambers and it's more than difficult to deal with when the chambers aren't clean.

If it's my Ruger Mark II, I will wipe it down and maybe pull the bolt out of it for a wipe-down. I don't clean the bore on that one all too often.

If it's one of the guns I don't shoot all too often, it'll get a full cleaning after the range day.

Fact is, I clean a ridiculous amount of guns... so I tend to do 3 or 4 per session, usually in a few days time. There I times when I clean guns 3 days in a row after a range session.
 
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