Firearm Cleanings

[sabretech2001]

If you know that it's gonna be more than about a week until you can get back to the range (or whatever) then at least run a few Hoppe's soaked patches through the bore. If you're shooting milsurp with corrosive primers then you need to clean it ASAP, to include the next day, in case you missed anything.

Of course, if you have a particularly polite group of zombies on your front lawn, I'm sure they'll wait a few minutes for you to clean yer piece before they attack....

[TyrannyUnleashed]

Of course, if you have a particularly polite group of zombies on your front lawn, I'm sure they'll wait a few minutes for you to clean yer piece before they attack....

That made me lol, just now. Thanks!

[sabretech2001]

That made me lol, just now. Thanks!

No problemo, I'll be here all week, and make sure to tip your waitress :D

[monkeybird]

Does anyone use those rope type cleaners? If so, do you experts think they work well?

[Matt In Oklahoma]

Does anyone use those rope type cleaners? If so, do you experts think they work well?

Aint no expert but yes i have used them. They do a great job on the inner barrel which is the part that probably needs to be cleaned the least for reliable operation of the weapon. The mechanics of the weapon is what needs to be done the most and on some weapons the chamber is where alot will go wrong. Each weapon has it's area that build carbon and foul the most. Examples would be the AR in the chamber, the 10-22 under the extractor, the revolver might be the forcing cone or under the star extractor, the glock is the rails and mechanics directly under the chamber and so on and so forth. The barrel cleaning is more important for accuracy rather than operation and if your in a hurry because as sabretech2001 said "if you have a particularly polite group of zombies on your front lawn, I'm sure they'll wait a few minutes for you to clean yer piece before they attack" skip the barrel and do the mechanics then get back at'em LOL

[WiseOwl]

I have treadmills and matchbox cars strategically and tacticooly placed throughout the front yard......it will buy me enough time to put in a Digornios....:)

[Matt In Oklahoma]

I have treadmills and matchbox cars strategically and tacticooly placed throughout the front yard......it will buy me enough time to put in a Digornios....:)

I can hear the banjos playing from here:) now go clean your rubber band gun!

[WiseOwl]

http://youtu.be/XeDXVN52cHI

Like this one.

[Matt In Oklahoma]

http://youtu.be/XeDXVN52cHI Like this one.

Wow thats too cool! Ok you win this bantering thats for sure:) LOL

[WiseOwl]

Years ago, we bought my boss one of these. One of the early models, it was from rubberbandguns.com

That joker could take out an entire floor from the receptionists desk. Most fun I have ever had goofing off in an office.

[ebb]

I also thought that when the patches came out clean the gun was clean. I was wrong. I took my gun to a friends house and he asked the same question i did, and i cleaned it bout twice as good as i usually do. We looked at the bore with a borescope and alot of the grooves had black carbon fouling in the corners of the grooves. He cleaned the bore with JB paste and we looked down the bore again and no carbon. I dont know if this kind of cleaning is nessesary or not, on the match guns he shoots ,yes but maybe not in a battle rifle. Does a bolt rifle that you uase for your long range stick, i think so. I use hopes no 9 or bench rest hoppes or GM top engine cleaner till the patches are clean and use JB paste about every 3rd time. I wish i had never looked in a borescope, i was fat dumb and happy before i knew . Now i always ask how do you know if its really clean? Well unless you have a borescope you dont really know for sure, but maybe almost clean is good enough?

[boltgun308]

WiseOwl, if it is just a spot then I would not be concerned, but if the whole gun was covered in rust spots, thats another story. Hard to know what started the rust in that one spot.

[Matt In Oklahoma]

Lets go little deeper into this and cover general maintaining. Most of us run glass or have "devices" on their weapons. When you clean and before you shoot at a range you check these things. You check before to see if any issues arise so you can adjust before you shoot and after to make sure that Murphy didnt get ya with the recoil.
Not only do you want to blow the dust offf of your glass but maybe those mounts should be checked and make sure they didnt wiggle lose. Wipe off the lens of the light and laser and double check the mounts, cords and battery terminals. These allen wrench/torex tools are super cheap at different places and cover what a pocket tool doesnt. Quality screwdrivers made for weapons are important too. The dental pick which usually run less than a buck at gunshows, garage sales and flea markets are super important to cleaning crevacises, nooks and crannies.



How many of you pack tools or even a cleaning rod to the field with you? On my recent hunt one of the other guys took an otis cable kit with him but superhandloader there had a bullet just a little to far out trying to match the lands and when he unchambered that round the bullet stayed in the barrel. His otis cable couldnt push out a bullet. I carry a military cleaning rod which made him cring being old, steel and the duct tape, used to keep it from rattling, had stuck to it but as i explained to him it wasnt for scrubbing it was for "fixing". I dropped the rod down in the barrel with zero pressure and the weight of the rod pushed the bullet out and got him back up and running. I have used this for stuck/blown cases, squib loads and the occasional mishap where someone slips and falls and always manages to drive the muzzle into the mud. I carry the 22 caliber because it fits in everything and I prefer the steel over brass for "fixing" things that are stuck. Yes it weighs more in the pack but that small amount is worth every step to know you can stay in the hunt/fight.

[Sharpshooter]

i carry cleaning kit not only in my carry bag for my rifle but also keep a cleaning kit and tools in my bob, hunting bag.

[WiseOwl]

When me goes a shootin, me gots me cleanin kit in me pack...arghhhhhhh