cleaning your Weapon

Ok. A little more detail than my first reply.

Take the sideplate off? Strip down to individual parts? You HAVE got to be kidding? I'd no more do that than I'd strip down a V-8 to do an oil change.

When I say I "clean" a gun I mean I run a patch through the bore and the charge holes in the cylinder. I buy those cheap silicone rags from my gun shop and cut patches from them. No more messy solvent needed. I might or might not use a brush, more likely if I've been shooting lead bullets, something I seldom do these days because I hate cleaning up after them.

If I think the insides are dirty, I'll shoot a couple of blasts of Gunscrubber or something like it in there and flush it out, let it dry, put a little oil in there. Work the action a few times to distribute it. Wipe it off with a silicone rag, then wipe it dry with an old T-shirt. Takes longer to type it than it does to do it.

Semi-auto, I only got one of them. It's a Glock. I don't remember the last time I cleaned it. When I do, field strip only. Run a patch through the bore, wipe off what I can reach inside and out. Put it back together. I suppose one day I might have to give it a shot of Gunscrubber...(I only buy the Poly safe stuff.)

The ONLY guns I've stripped down to individual parts were com-bloc milsurps that came packed in cosmoline. I only did them once.
 
Take the sideplate off? Strip down to individual parts? You HAVE got to be kidding? I'd no more do that than I'd strip down a V-8 to do an oil change.
I have to agree here. For me routine cleaning is bore, chambers & wipe down any other surfaces to remove smoke, powder & metal fouling.
If I detail strip its either once a year, or if I feel a problem that might be debris related.
 
I am a big fan of stainless firearms. I clean them when they quit working properly. This usually entails a good hosing with gun scrubber, a bit of oil when and where needed followed by reassembly.
 
I clean the chambers of my carry revolvers every time I shoot them. My 642 will easily load and eject when a little dirty but the 342 is finicky. After about 30 rounds (five cylinders), the 342 won't always let cartridges drop all the way in from a speed loader.
 
I clean my after every time I go shooting. It's a force of habit, when I first started shooting it was with a 22 revolver and if I didn't clean the cylinder it was a pain to extract and load the gun. Because of that I always clean my guns after every use.
 
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