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Cleaning AR Dillemma
It has been accepted that Chrome lined barrels should be cleaned only when necessary or maybe a thousand rounds as over cleaning can do more harm than good.
sometimes we have a squeeky clean barrel after cleaning. then a friend comes a long and you take him to the range to "sample" your AR. he shoots like 2 mags (60 rounds) and that's it.
do you clean that barrel? sometimes It would be months before I shoot another round. say like 2-3 months specially when Im on an away trip.
is this ok?
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I almost never clean my AR's.
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aha! the answer ive been looking for.
it's not a precision rifle though. just an RDS on it. woudn't hurt accuracy right?
you almost never clean it... the barrel you mean. but the bolt ?
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The golden rule that was pounded into my head most of my life is "the sun never sets on a dirty weapon."
So I clean my weapons when they are used...no matter if it was 1 round or a 1,000 rounds.Never had any issues resulting from doing so either.This practice also allows me to inspect the parts for damage,which may help prevent a failure on my next trip to the range,hunting,defense or whatever.To me its just a good time to make sure the weapon is good to go regardless.
Now I don't do a white glove spotless cleaning,but I do clean,inspect and lube after each use.I seriously doubt I do as much damage as lets say rust would if not maintained properly.Here where I live things will either rust or grow mold in a very short amount of time,and the condition of my weapons is too important for me to chance it.10-15 minutes of my life,a few cleaning patches and a bit of CLP is cheap insurance IMHO.
I also like to relube the weapon and punch the bore before use if its been in storage for a long period of time.
But thats my opinion.
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Lube is important - "cleaning" isn't.
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that's interesting... I was afraid of something like that happening. rusting and all. yes I live in a humid country too.
i was thinking of doing a pass or 2 of solvent soaked rag. just to remove fouling and maybe clean the exterior of the BCG. I almost never clean the insides of the bolt.
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Me, I clean and lube after every use. For multi-day affairs I'll lube every day but defer cleaning until I return home. But I use one-piece Dewey rods with a rod guide, and I don't overdo the cleaning. Nothing that I own has ever seen a GI or other sectional cleaning rod.
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no sectional rods? why? even sectional aluminum rods? I use sectional alum rods. I thought that since it is chrome bore aluminum rods won't harm it.
Im ok with the lubing part. but when you remove the BCG to lube it... won't you at least clean it since it's already out? or do you just lube thru the BCG holes.?
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I know it's not needed. But I clean my AR's after each use.
Mostly just pull the patches/brushes through the bore a couple of times. And the BCG gets cleaned and re-lubed too. I strip everything down in the bolt except the ejector stuff.
I also relube my main AR every week, shot or not. :o
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cleaning has been suffocated to death.. but the growing consensus is that getting "most" of the mud out and reloobing is all that's needed. now that the world has discovered that more is more when it comes to loob, you can get pretty honkin dirty before you need to clean. a chrome lined bore probably doesn't ever really NEED to be cleaned.. there are theories about copper plating getting too thick, and i buy that- so about every 5000 rounds i'll do a copper solvent soak and scrub with a nylon brush (copper solvent eat bronze bristles), but i dont spend a lot of time on even that. i do clean after every session, but it's not detailed. takes 15 minutes, including a quick bore scrub.