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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: MikeBjerum on November 21, 2012, 02:20:58 PM
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A recent conversation lead me to ask this one.
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Normally it's option #2 but with my PPK I had to strip it down and soak it for 2 days and scrub it to get all the brown gunk out. I've never seen a gun that looked so nasty.
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Option #3 for me, please........ mainly because of my "mechanical nature"........ ;D
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I always strip my guns and get a good coat of Eezox on them. Usually a hair dryer warm up till the parts are too hot to touch and then a bath. Once that oil soaks in cleaning is easy and hassle free.
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3 for me.
I want the oil/grease where its supposed to be and I want a clean bore to start with after the factory test fire.
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I always field strip and clean them. Many new guns have all kinds of dried up grease on them. Especially Taurus. I work in a gun store, and Taurus puts all kinds of grease on their guns. So much so that I sometimes have to clean the old stuff off with wd40 or something. If they put that much crap on the outside, imagine what the inside looks like. It is always a good idea with any gun to run a patch or two through the bore just to make sure there is nothing in there that could cause problems. Lots of the AKs they ship over here have chamber flags in them, but they are junky and will break off, leaving part of it in the barrel. Would be bad news if you shot the thing with that stuck in the barrel.
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For me it depends on the gun and it's type of action. For example if it's a bolt action rifle, all I'll do is run an oily patch through the bore and grease up the bolt lugs. If it's a semi auto pistol like a 1911, or the new CZ-75B I just bought, I will do a complete field strip, clean and relubricate everything, especially the slide. On an AR-15 I'll ALWAYS pull out the bolt carrier group, disassemble, and completely lubricate everything. I've yet to see a new AR-15 that wasn't shipped from the factory bone dry. I would never fire an AR-15 in that condition.
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Depends on the gun's packaging.
If it's lightly oiled I'll wipe off the excess and punch the bore.
If it's cosmoline, disassembled and days spent scrubbing with gasoline or mineral spirits .
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Got to echo Tom's thoughts.
Some guns need a complete take-apart and re-assembly with proper amounts of lube in relevant places.
Others may only require a look and a wipe.
ARs always require field stripping, cleaning, lubricating and re-assembly.
Wheel guns, not so much. A look down the barrel and maybe a drop or two of oil and it's usually good to go bang.
A freshly ordered Mosin Nagant is a full day's work with cancer-causing chemicals, lots of rags, and a bunch of lube.
FWIW
Crusader
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A freshly ordered Mosin Nagant is a full day's work with cancer-causing chemicals, lots of rags, and a bunch of lube. Crusader
http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/cancer%20list.htm
How the hell do Railway Sleepers cause cancer?
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I usually try to at least field strip a new gun and look at it, if not clean it. I always lube. The only pistol I didn't do that with was my Sig 1911 because there was an indoor range attached to the gun shop. I bought it, asked them to spray some lube inside, and went out and fired 100 rounds. All others I take apart when I get them home...mostly just to see how they go together.
The time to learn the little quirks of your gun is not at the range with a round stuck in it.
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Take it apart, examine the pieces parts, marvel at the design, drool a bit, clean the shite that looks sticky, icky or otherwise might cause me heartache and lube it properly! Reassemble, marvel at the design, drool a bit more and go blast away at something.
My BIL's PPK was really nasty when he bought it and it wouldn't fire consistently. I figured he at least lubed the thing but alas, he's a dumbass. He gave it to me for a couple of weeks and like Frank said, it was really icky, sticky! After some proper love, it's 100%!
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I usually try to at least field strip a new gun and look at it, if not clean it. I always lube. The only pistol I didn't do that with was my Sig 1911 because there was an indoor range attached to the gun shop. I bought it, asked them to spray some lube inside, and went out and fired 100 rounds. All others I take apart when I get them home...mostly just to see how they go together.
The time to learn the little quirks of your gun is not at the range with a round stuck in it.
There is a thought to remember!
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Last Gun Show I picked up a 100 year old .32 S&W and all I used was Gun Scrubber followed by a generous dose of silicone gun oil.
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http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/cancer%20list.htm
How the hell do Railway Sleepers cause cancer?
I notice Kissing and Left Handedness made the list also......as did Hot Tea.
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The more I think about it the more I think I field stripped and cleaned most of my new guns. It's been so long I can't remember.