This guy cleans his AK every day - it's handy having your bore snake, patches and Hoppes stored right there in your lower lip. All while listening to I-tunes too, how much better can life get?
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This guy cleans his AK every day - it's handy having your bore snake, patches and Hoppes stored right there in your lower lip. All while listening to I-tunes too, how much better can life get?
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I know I'm a little late in the game on this but for once it may be something I know a little about...I don't take a lot of time cleaning my 1911 (a Baer Stinger) and after a few minor break in issues it hasn't failed me yet. I haven't been in any type of combat with it, but it has been through several combat courses...and I have ran the hell out of it on more than a few days. Its only 5 1/2 months old and it has 8000+ rounds through it. More than once its went 1000 rounds without cleaning. But I do keep it lubed with Mobil 1 in winter months and plain old grease in the summer months.
Just agreeing with Bob.
Ditto: same here. I have fired on quite a few competition rifle teams in my day from match grade .22's to match grade M1A1's. We never cleaned them until the end of the shooting season (4 or 5 months and longer), to preserve accuracy. Every time someone would clean, they would have to completely re-zero the weapon to get it accurate again. We just cleaning the bolt and chamber if we got too much crude built up. Now, I just lube and shoot, unless I'm attending a class. Then I get it squeaky clean and I never use a bore brush. Just patches of solvent, then dry patches until clean, then lube. It works for me, but hey, I'm terminally lazy!![]()
I do not distinguish my weapons as "fun" guns, "work" guns, and "go to" guns. They are all treated the same.
If a round goes down the barrel it gets cleaned. End of story. The only exception to this is competition precision weapons.
Anything else I consider severe laziness. If it was worth your money to buy it's worth the time to maintain properly.
Now that doesn't mean it has to be Q-tip clean everytime. But at least take the time to clean the barrel, wipe down the nasty parts and lube properly.
I weep for the boys that get their gas piston uppers, call it a "fun gun" and never clean it.
I clean the chamber after I come back from the range as I usually am shooting Wolf ammo. When my carbine is in the safe there is a loaded 30 rounder loaded with some of my handloads in the gun. I like to make sure that the brass rounds with eject if I need it for an emergancy. I clean everything else when I am in the mood and that is about every other month or so.
I clean my AR after a class; otherwise I just wipe it off and keep it lubed. I've never had any issues with this method.
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