How often do you clean your glocks/ARs? Does it depend on what kind of ammo you use? WWB? Do you need to clean the bore? Do you need to oil the bore?
I've just been blasting my BCG with CLP after use
How often do you clean your glocks/ARs? Does it depend on what kind of ammo you use? WWB? Do you need to clean the bore?
never
1000 rounds, unless you treat them like shit taking them out in the rain, snow etc. If you push them, then every time cause that moister or debris could rust parts. Once parts start to rust, that gun is gone. You WON'T be able to save it.
>Do you need to clean the bore? Do you need to oil the bore?
Same as above. If you oil your stuff, every 1000rounds of use. If you dunk them in water, in the rain, in the snow, in the dirt, in the mud. Then every single time.
>Once parts start to rust, that gun is gone. You WON'T be able to save it.
Why? My mav88 has rust and it seems find
Nice trips
I clean my glock, sig, and AR after every range trip. Whether I shoot 50 or 500 rounds, I clean everything.
If I don't go to the range, I still pop them out of the safe and clean everything every month just because it's fun and I enjoy cleaning everything. I don't use gun oil, but a high temp, high pressure machinist oil that I've had very good results with as far as "stick-tivity" and keeping all wear down. I know I over-maintain my glock, sig, and AR, but like I said, I enjoy the practice of tearing everything down and cleaning it all.
Isn't over cleaning bad? Everyone says 'glocks break if you over lube then" and "cleaning too much will frick them up"
I have no clue who started the overlube meme but they're wrong
I avoid over lubing my 17, I stick to a "less is more" ideology, but I make sure to hit the wear spots. Running a glock too wet is a bad thing, so it's a light touch approach. But making sure any firearm is free from carbon and brass buildup is a good thing.
Remember that factory grease you cleaned out of the Glock? Turns out that was a mistake; it was not meant to be lubricated with oil. John "Glocks" recommends Clenzoil™ grease
>Isn't over cleaning bad?
Only if you are over using aggressive cleaning tool and techniques and scrubbing off the finish. Or accelerating wear by detail stripping the gun and egging out pin holes, etc.
>no clue who started the overlube meme but they're wrong
Pretty sure it was James Yeager talking out of his ass about Glock warranty returns. He was not wrong that Glocks do not need very much lube, but overdoing it wont hurt the gun.
The Glock manual and the official Glock armorer's courses recommend 5 drops of lube total. The only thing extra lube will do is make sure dirt and brass particles live in your gun rent free. Even inside the firing pin channel if you were dumb enough to squirt lube in there, which is why those people have to return their guns.
my AR? literally never. I just hit it with the rem oil on the bcg before using it.
On my gucci glock? right before i take instagram photos
On my normal use guns? only when i change parts.
I almost don't clean my striker fired pistols and ARs except running a bore snek through them every few range trips.
My .22 guns + suppressor require thorough cleaning after every range session because the powder and lead dust blows back through the can and crusts up everything.
How do you know when it's time to clean it?
Ask the gun
Home defense and carry guns I clean after every range trip, not always a detailed cleaning but wipe off the carbon and get fresh lube. Everything else, whenever they get nasty.
I think I've cleaned my Glock like, once. I only recently got ARs and the only one I intend to clean regularly is the home defense one.
How often? Like how many rounds? Should you clean the bore or bcg more?
>How often do you clean your glocks/ARs?
literally never
22s on the other hand...
How often do you clean a 10/22 takedown? Cleaning rod or is a bore snake ok?
I don't own an AR. I clean my glock once in a while. Maybe every 500 rounds or so, but definitely not every range trip. I don't intentionally lube it at all but my last cleaning step involves wiping everything down with an oily pad and then wiping everything clean and I assume that's enough lubrication because it feels as smooth as it did when I bought it which was about 8 years ago
I do a deep clean after every range day, even if I fired sub 100 rounds. I find disassembling and cleaning very therapeutic
I clean my guns after every range trip, regardless of how many rounds I shot. That being said if I'm shooting frequently (multiple times a month) I'll hold off on it and only clean them every 500 rounds or so. If it's an HD gun that stays squeaky clean regardless of how frequently I'm shooting it.
every time i shoot it because I'm not lazy
carbon fouling is a moisture trap
when you add copper on top of it, it only gets worse. so you have carbon sandwiched between copper sandwiched between copper between copper between carbon... etc... and all the while, the carbon is a little moist. eating away at your barrel.
clean after every time shot. it's comfy, and i like to.
ar get's bore brushed, bcg disassembled and cleaned. nooks and crannies cleaned out. light film of oil on entire bc, and charging handle, and then a bore snake with cpl pulled through a couple of times.
pistol (original xd .45) gets barrell soaked, brushed, lubed. feed ramps get brushed well. slide channels and fram rails get hit with a q-tip. blow the rest out with compressed air, and wipe the entire gun. no lube necessary for this gun in my arid climate.
my 870 was a whole different beast. it was blued, and would rust if you even look at it. sold that shit.
>How often do you clean your glocks/ARs?
when they're dirty.
>Does it depend on what kind of ammo you use?
yes. some ammo types produce more fouling than others.
>Do you need to clean the bore?
yes. but you don't need to get it perfectly clean every time. get yourself a bore snake. that will take care of almost all the cleaning you'll ever have to do on a bore.
>Do you need to oil the bore?
depends on how corrosion resistant it is. if it doesn't have some type of corrosion resistant properties it will need some type of corrosion protection.