What pistols do you love so much you even enjoy cleaning them?

I enjoy shooting a SIG P210-6 and have it as a regular range companion. It is easy to field strip and the metal finish inside is a nicely done as on the outside, meaning that it is easy to clean.

The 210-4 was even easier to clean, since the hammer group wasn't fixed by a screw and came out easily.

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I tend to enjoy cleaning all guns, to the point that my old college roomates would stack shotguns/rifles in my room after hunting trips and I'd clean em all up in an afternoon.

My favorites have always been 1911's though, the beauty of the design really comes out as you take it apart and put it together, IMO.

My least favorite are revolvers. Probably because I have old, re-manufactured target ammo (ultimax) that uses the dirtiest powder I've ever seen in .38 and I'm only half way through it. Such a mess.

Also my wife has a Taurus 9-shot .22 revolver that I kinda hate to clean. So many freaking cylinders!
 
Love cleaning my Glocks. Easy to field strip and reassemble. My hardest is my Kahr CW9. Not completely "broken in" yet so everything is tight. Plus, I love the smell of bore cleaner. Smells like....
 
All 4 Kimbers, all 13 primo condition Smith revolvers, my single action Rugers, but my Glocks & Smith M&Ps are by far the easiest to break down quickly & clean.
Love those Glock and M&Ps.
 
I lost the fun of cleaning several decades ago.

Though, these modern semi's are easy to clean. Field strip, clean out the barrel, wipe off the bolt face, ready to go. They are so complicated to disassemble, that I don't. My P38 and M92 Beretta, I have the books but not the inclination to take them down beyond field strip, even though, I know, dirt and grime is down in the lock works.

That is one reason I hate cleaning M1911's. They are easy to take apart, even the trigger mechanisms. No dirt and grime in the firing pin channel or trigger mechanisms in my M1911's.

We should all own guns that are so complicated that you can’t initiate compulsive cleaning behavioral disorders.
 
My P210s are at the top, for the reasons PzGren stated. I enjoy cleaning my Beretta 92s, even though -- very much unlike a P210 -- the frames contain all sorts of intricate and hard to reach little nooks and crannies.

I also enjoy cleaning my PPS, since I have particular affection for it as my primary CCW. I like cleaning my Kahr P380 because after I disassemble it, it's easier to fantasize about what it would look like after smashing it with a sledgehammer following another range trip where it fails to feed/extract/eject, fails to lock back, locks back prematurely, fails to return to battery, drops the mag while firing, has light primer strikes, and so forth.
 
My stainless 1911s. Very enjoyable to get squeaky clean.

IF I had a p210 I would play with it every other day

I really enjoy taking the ruger gp100 down to every last pin

Seecamp is fum as its like a small watch and usually wax it.
 
Austin TX,

you have a pretty nice collection.

A few posts entail cleaning of revolvers and I want to add that cleaning my Korths is a breeze; I can remove the cylinder by simply pressing the release button and it makes cleaning much easier and more enjoyable. I am using Bullseye powder since decades and it is dirty!

Going from this:

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to this more enjoyable state:

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Thanks, PzGren. It's a work in progress. It certainly doesn't have anything like those stunning Korths at this point.
 
My revolvers for simplicity sake, 1911s and Glocks (or variants thereof)

My dreaded one is 1) a Colt Police Positive; its a nightmare to take out the internals, clean them, and put it back together... You need a third hand to hold the Swiss pocket watch internals together and 2) a Colt Woodsman, because of the backstrap assembly... and its for the same reasons as #1...

It took me 2 hours to reassemble :mad:
 
Given that I don't get to go/can't afford to go to the range as often as I'd like (sometimes only once a month), cleaning my guns is sometimes the only chance I get to handle them in a given week, so I enjoy cleaning them all in that sense. The only one that was a pain was the Ruger MkIII.
 
My Glock because it takes like two minutes.

Every time I clean it I feel like I missed something because I'm done so quick.

The ruger MKII is a different story... But I have succesfully taken it down to individual parts, replaced parts and reassembled; not something I can say of the Glock.
 
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