Maintenance routine for your edc?

I carry a Kimber 4" as my duty pistol to my cop job every day. I carry the same gun off duty. It get's carried if I'm awake. About (that's right, about) once every 30 days or so it gets wiped off. It doesn't get unloaded, rubbed, looked at, tinkered with, or anything else. Enough times of that and you're begging for an ammo failure because of mangled rims.

I shoot 2000+ rounds a year through that gun, and it gets cleaned after firing, but beyond that, it gets wiped off and carried.

After many years of it being dragged around 365 days a year, sweated on when I mow, dusted out when I work around the farm, blah, blah, blah, it has never failed to do what it's supposed to when I pull the trigger.

The other thing to consider is the more you manipulate and screw around with a loaded gun, the more likely you are to have a negligent discharge.

My gun is a tool, and it gets treated as such.
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How often do you shoot the gun and what type of lubrication do you use? I'm not discounting your approach at all, just trying to better understand it. It is pretty much the exact same approach I've used for years with my revolvers and would love to be able to reliably do the same with my p220.
 
After many years of it being dragged around 365 days a year, sweated on when I mow, dusted out when I work around the farm, blah, blah, blah, it has never failed to do what it's supposed to when I pull the trigger.
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My experience has been similar. Ive pretty much worked physically outside, in all weather, and an often miserable environment, and the biggest issue I had, was rust. Function was never an issue.

Wheteher you shoot it or not, you do need to keep up on routine, and often daily maintenance, depending on the situation youre in. How you carry it also comes into play here. Carrying IWB under something, will give different results than open carrying without protection. Both methods have their own pluses and minuses too. I always carried IWB, and sweat, fine dust, and dust bunnies, were my biggest concerns/issues. Check daily (and in some cases, maybe even multiple times a day) and address as needed.
 
can't carry in a interstate commercial vehicle
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Are you referring to a federal law I don't know about, to company policy, or to a degree of impracticality in complying with a different set of laws every time you cross a state line?
 
win-lose - The gun gets shot when it gets shot............

I don't really have a routine. I would guess through the summer months is when most of the 2000+ rounds are fired. That's when most of my department's firearms training is scheduled. That pistol may go 2 or 3 months through the late fall/hard winter/early spring and never get fired, nor "cleaned".

It get's wiped off every so often (MAYBE every couple of weeks) with a kleen-bore silicone cloth. It DOESN'T get unloaded and "inspected". That just causes premature case rim wear, and the odds of having an ND get increasingly better with each time you fondle a loaded gun.

I use one shot brand (I believe the name is zero friction) oil. I use this oil because it's in my local shop, and it's a bottle with a needle oiler so I can put the tiniest drops where I need them (Barrel hood, muzzle/slide mating, frame to slide rail mating at the beavertail end, etc.) without unloading the gun. It gets oiled when it does get cleaned, as well as when it gets it's wipe down.
 
I have carried my M&P Shield daily now going on a year and a half.
Once a week I use my air compressor with moisture filter in place to
remove any dust, lint, etc... that might get inside the firearm from
carrying it IWB then apply oil to designated locations per the Mfg. Same goes for the magazines which I unload and clean as well.

I shoot it at least 4x a month and clean it after each time.
 
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