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When you purchase or receive a new gun, how much cleaning do you do before firing it?

Wipe off the oil film
0 (0%)
Wipe off and wipe out bore and chamber
7 (21.2%)
Complete field strip cleaning and lube
26 (78.8%)

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MikeBjerum

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New Gun Practices
« on: November 21, 2012, 02:20:58 PM »
A recent conversation lead me to ask this one.
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Re: New Gun Practices
« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2012, 02:25:43 PM »
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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Re: New Gun Practices
« Reply #2 on: November 21, 2012, 03:00:09 PM »
Option #3 for me, please........ mainly because of my "mechanical nature"........  ;D
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Re: New Gun Practices
« Reply #3 on: November 21, 2012, 03:13:04 PM »
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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Re: New Gun Practices
« Reply #4 on: November 21, 2012, 04:22:10 PM »
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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Re: New Gun Practices
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Re: New Gun Practices
« Reply #5 on: November 21, 2012, 04:29:08 PM »
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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Re: New Gun Practices
« Reply #6 on: November 21, 2012, 04:37:08 PM »
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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Re: New Gun Practices
« Reply #7 on: November 21, 2012, 05:48:58 PM »
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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Re: New Gun Practices
« Reply #8 on: November 22, 2012, 08:29:44 AM »
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.

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Re: New Gun Practices
« Reply #9 on: November 22, 2012, 08:47:17 AM »
Quote from: crusader rabbit on November 22, 2012, 08:29:44 AM
A freshly ordered Mosin Nagant is a full day's work with cancer-causing chemicals, lots of rags, and a bunch of lube.  Crusader

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