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    Quote Originally Posted by BCmJUnKie View Post
    Both. Not mixed of course. For drills and Reload practice I use steel. For long range or any kind of groups I use brass
    steel can soot up your chamber pretty good. a lot of people have problems with fails to extract after putting brass on top of steel. since you hadn't cleaned it at all, whatever steel that had been up there probably gummed it up enough to give you problems. in the future, keep it well loobed, keep loob out of the chamber as best you can, and if you have problems with stuck cases after shooting steel, just jam your chamber brush up in there and give it a quick scrub. no need to clean the whole gun for that, unless you want to.

    if you find you're having stuck cases without shooting steel, or when the gun is clean, inspect your extractor and probably go ahead and replace your extractor spring.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bkb0000 View Post
    steel can soot up your chamber pretty good. a lot of people have problems with fails to extract after putting brass on top of steel. since you hadn't cleaned it at all, whatever steel that had been up there probably gummed it up enough to give you problems. in the future, keep it well loobed, keep loob out of the chamber as best you can, and if you have problems with stuck cases after shooting steel, just jam your chamber brush up in there and give it a quick scrub. no need to clean the whole gun for that, unless you want to.

    if you find you're having stuck cases without shooting steel, or when the gun is clean, inspect your extractor and probably go ahead and replace your extractor spring.
    Very good thank you. I will mos def remember that. Like I said, this is the first problem I have had with this rifle PERIOD. I owned a bushmaster a couple years back. Had all kinds of problems. The BCM in the pics eats up anything. 2,000 rounds I am happy with. I was hoping for somewhere around 5,000
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    Looks dry as a bone in there aside from some THICK carbon build up.



    When you are running long periods without cleaning and weak ammo it needs to be wet. Especially if you're running it hot (lots of ammo in a short period like drills).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Belmont31R View Post
    Looks dry as a bone in there aside from some THICK carbon build up.



    When you are running long periods without cleaning and weak ammo it needs to be wet. Especially if you're running it hot (lots of ammo in a short period like drills).
    I know the pics make it look really dry. It wasnt. I would like to think I run it wet
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    Quick question from a new AR owner. Is it common to run this many round through your rifle before cleaning it? I was brought up that after a hunt or a trip to the range you clean your firearm. I know that the AR is a breed of its own and I still have a lot to learn about it (that why I’m here) but am I wrong to clean it after a each trip to the range?

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    Dammit I shouldnt have cleaned it huh... The reason I did this I guess is cause I wanted to see what my rifle does. How many rounds before a malfunction. I should have kept going
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fullauto View Post
    Quick question from a new AR owner. Is it common to run this many round through your rifle before cleaning it? I was brought up that after a hunt or a trip to the range you clean your firearm. I know that the AR is a breed of its own and I still have a lot to learn about it (that why I’m here) but am I wrong to clean it after a each trip to the range?
    Well the guys that I listen to the most are on here. But some of my Marine friends think its sacrelige to have ANY carbon in your rifle. I know I built a solid rifle and it can handle it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fullauto View Post
    Quick question from a new AR owner. Is it common to run this many round through your rifle before cleaning it? I was brought up that after a hunt or a trip to the range you clean your firearm. I know that the AR is a breed of its own and I still have a lot to learn about it (that why I’m here) but am I wrong to clean it after a each trip to the range?
    Quote Originally Posted by BCmJUnKie View Post
    Well the guys that I listen to the most are on here. But some of my Marine friends think its sacrelige to have ANY carbon in your rifle. I know I built a solid rifle and it can handle it.
    this is a topic all in it's own, and we've had a number of threads on it specifically. i recommend doing an orange SEARCH for it... in a nutshell, the AR, properly loobed, will likely run for thousands of rounds without cleaning- it's a very reliable platform, and basically "self-cleans" in the important places, as originally advertised decades ago. but you also need to consider things like inspection, corrosion, and the fact that NOT cleaning adds a degree of question mark that doesn't exist when the weapon IS clean.

    the conversation expands and becomes more controversial when we talk about what exactly "clean" means, however... pretty much nobody who knows anything believes the whole gun needs to be spotless, anymore.... that's oldschool, and long since proven wrong.

    ETA- for the record, i usually clean after every range trip... but i don't spend that much time on it- scrub out the action, wipe it down, scrape off most of the carbon, loob it, function check it, put it up. detailed cleanings only every few thousand rounds... and i pretty much never clean the bore, beyond wiping it out with a patch.
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    I wonder if the results would have been different with a real lube designed for firearms?



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    Quote Originally Posted by Iraqgunz View Post
    I wonder if the results would have been different with a real lube designed for firearms?
    What is hoppe's designed for?
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