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How often do you clean your gun?

Every time I shoot it. Even if its just one bullet.
28 (30.4%)
Not every time I shoot, but fairly often.
31 (33.7%)
Every once in a while.
19 (20.7%)
Hardly ever.
9 (9.8%)
What!? You're supposed to clean your guns?
5 (5.4%)

Total Members Voted: 92

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Offline sven

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Re: How often do you clean your gun?
« Reply #15 on: October 12, 2013, 08:16:00 PM »
clean the bore and remove copper before the season , breech to muzzle only , then one foul shot before hunting , clean at the end of season .

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Re: How often do you clean your gun?
« Reply #16 on: October 12, 2013, 08:34:33 PM »
Always wipe my guns down before they go back in the safe....even if they were just handled and not shot.  Oil from your hand has salt and will eat the bluing if not wiped off. 

Breach to Muzzle as needed throughout the year.... 

Entire gun at the end of the season when they will be stored for a few months.

Muzzleloader gets cleaned every time I shoot it.  Never stored dirty!!

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Re: How often do you clean your gun?
« Reply #17 on: October 12, 2013, 09:08:49 PM »
I usually clean my rifles after I shoot them at the range. During goose season, I'll wipe down my shotgun after coming in from the field and run a rag through the barrel. If it's muddy, I'll do a thorough cleaning.
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Re: How often do you clean your gun?
« Reply #18 on: October 12, 2013, 09:14:20 PM »
I clean my glocks if I am bored. Glocks just run I hardly ever clean them. They run like champs. Everything else at least gets a bore snake and a rem oil wipe job when it goes back into the house
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Re: How often do you clean your gun?
« Reply #19 on: October 12, 2013, 09:15:31 PM »
I run a bullet down the pipe once or twice a year that cleans it up pretty nice :tup:

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Re: How often do you clean your gun?
« Reply #20 on: October 12, 2013, 09:18:36 PM »
I clean my glocks if I am bored. Glocks just run I hardly ever clean them. They run like champs. Everything else at least gets a bore snake and a rem oil wipe job when it goes back into the house

I do clean my handguns fairly regularly, even when I haven't shot them but have been carrying them. When you carry, they do get sweat on them and they get dusty/linty.
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Re: How often do you clean your gun?
« Reply #21 on: October 12, 2013, 09:23:13 PM »
I clean my glocks if I am bored. Glocks just run I hardly ever clean them. They run like champs. Everything else at least gets a bore snake and a rem oil wipe job when it goes back into the house

I do cleaning my handguns fairly regularly, even when I haven't shot them but have been carrying them.
I clean my rifles a lot. of course I like to tinker with them all the time. I think I am on my 4th camo job on my 22-250 and the 2nd or 3rd on my 308. I do on my 1911 and my revolvers but I find that a little carbon really slicks up those glocks nice
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Re: How often do you clean your gun?
« Reply #22 on: October 12, 2013, 10:03:09 PM »
My shotgun I clean after every use .  Just peace of mind and I hunt near salt water and it could rust up a gun in a few hours .
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Re: How often do you clean your gun?
« Reply #23 on: October 12, 2013, 11:15:53 PM »
Being an ex competitive shooter I do a complete tear down of each gun after every time I shoot more than a couple of rounds through them or am about to put them away for storage.

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Re: How often do you clean your gun?
« Reply #24 on: October 12, 2013, 11:32:08 PM »
I run a bullet down the pipe once or twice a year that cleans it up pretty nice :tup:
We are still talking guns, right?

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Re: How often do you clean your gun?
« Reply #25 on: October 16, 2013, 11:45:51 PM »
Clean 'em every time I shoot them, unless it's the range session right before hunting season.

 


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