How often do you clean your guns?

[Ballistic Therapy]

I clean my guns every time I shoot them.
My hunting guns get cleaned every time I take them out in the field , regardless if they have been shot or not.

I really don't understand the " I wait until I have a problem before I clean them " people.
That just makes no sense to me.

 

[Roneyj]

I clean handguns every time I shoot. ARs the same as handguns. For some reason 22s and shotguns I do not cleaned as often.

-jr

 

[effjaybay]

I clean mine every third or fourth outing. The ones that mostly stay in the safe, I take out once or twice a year for light lubing or wipe down.

 

[samnev]

I'm anal about cleaning them. So I clean them every time after I shoot them.

 

[Geekmedic]

Pistols and AR's get cleaned every 500 rounds as history has shown me I can go well past this before there is a problem. My PRS rifle gets cleaned at 750 rounds as that is when accuracy starts to fall off.

 

[Az desert rat 1]

If I shoot it I clean it when I get home. If I haven't fired them I will run an oiled patch down the barrel and lightly oil all the rest every few months.

 

[xerts1191]

I see some of you are a bit OCD

 

[knockonit]

no more than i absolutely have to, like when they quit working

 

[Cubiclerevolt]

I borrowed a friends ultra sonic to clean everything. I am definitely getting my own soon.

Tell me if it is not therapeutic to watch all that carbon get blasted right away. The before and after is insane.

 

[Cubiclerevolt]

I try to clean them every time I go shooting. Usually if I am in a hurry or just being lazy i'll clean my carry gun first then the rest later.

Now I have all the time in the world mine are pretty much always clean.

 

[redj]

I clean mine every time they are fired ,or if they get dirty or dusty.
If I take one somewhere , I make sure it is clean before I put it away.
A clean gun is a happy gun.

 

[Seif]

no more than i absolutely have to, like when they quit working

Pretty much this. I have a Ruger 22/45 that I probably have 3000 rounds through it suppressed and its still ticking. My daughters Marlin 60 needs cleaning after a couple hundred rounds.

 

[semperfisurveyor]

Corrosive through the vintage units, and my carry get the love...the rest are as time allows.

 

[AZ Husker]

no more than i absolutely have to, like when they quit working

Pretty much this. I have a Ruger 22/45 that I probably have 3000 rounds through it suppressed and its still ticking. My daughters Marlin 60 needs cleaning after a couple hundred rounds.

Why in the world would you wait until something as important as a weapon that could save your life broke down? I'm calling BS on your post knockonit as I know your business has a ton of equipment that would cost you a fortune if you didn't do preventative maintenance instead of waiting until it took a crap. Not you RJ, but I'm reading posts from simply a bunch of lazy guys.

 

[curtmini14]

im with red every time i use them.i also noticed that the lazy ones are the first to cry like little babies when there gun does break.

 

[knockonit]

lol, they get cleaned and perhaps till something breaks or they malfunction may be a little extreme, but my carries which is quite a few, are not cleaned as much as one would expect, i gravitate towards units that can be abused and ignored for a carry. I shoot coated bullets, and have to say it negates so much cleaning issues, i have not bought into the super duper defensive bullets, i have bought into shot placement, and am so confortable with my range ammo. But have to say, my carry (fav) probably hasn't been cleaned more than twice in its two years of carry, and probably 5k plus of rounds, i run a minimum of a two hundred thru it at least once a week, as i try to shoot once a week with the "boys' shooting day is generally a minimum of 1k and usually closer to 1.5k rounds,
the carbines do need a squirt once in a while, but have to say thats about it. my new little plinker the tx22, has probably 5k thru it and no cleaning, but generally they run till i sense a difference in operation, and when you shoot them as much as i do, you know right away.
and i do enjoy the smell of a used gun, hehe, i'm strange like that i guess.
Rj

 

[428cj]

I shoot them, I clean them. Old saying, take care of your weapon it will take care of you.

 

[ale4me]

Modern handguns and corrosive free ammo don’t really require cleaning that often. I clean my Glock maybe once every six months. .22’s every two range trips.

 

[samnev]

I see some of you are a bit OCD

Guilty

 

[Vyadmirer]

Another spin on the thought process is that if you go a few times without cleaning then you know for a fact how well your gun can run dirty. That’s actually useful in a way. You also know which ones get picky. Outside of rim fire it’s hard to make a modern gun so dirty it won’t run. (Outside of an extreme round count or some tuned up 1911 or something.)