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Holy crap, I barely clean the guns that I use, never mind the ones that I don't use!

 

Does that make me a bad gun owner?

 

Agreed.  Statistically a machine has a greater rate of failure just after reassembly.

Thus, it fired last time I pulled the trigger and statistically it should fire the next time as well.

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Agreed.  Statistically a machine has a greater rate of failure just after reassembly.

Thus, it fired last time I pulled the trigger and statistically it should fire the next time as well.

 

Love it!  Finally, a logical justification for my bad behavior.  

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I do it once or twice a year... or when I shoot a gun. If I'm pulling something out and notice something, I deal with it at that time.

 

I had to reconfigure my main safe last week, and noticed that my one 11-87s had some spots showing up on the barrel (SP, with that matte finish). Guess I missed it the last time I went through... but a quick wipe with oil, and good as new.

 

Both of my safes have golden rods, desiccants, and monitors to make sure temperature/humidity stays in range. Even with that, you do need to keep up on guns.

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Cleaning moving parts? Often. Cleaning the bore? As little as possible.

 

On, say, an AR, I'll spray Brak Kleen and re-oil the trigger/sear parts and the bolt/bcg parts often and try to keep any accumulationof crud from building. I might do it after every other range trip, if I feel like it.

 

As far as the barrel? Maybe once every 500 rounds I'll to a full clean and run patches down it. Other than that, I spray some carb cleaner and blow compressed air down the bore.

 

I didn't think it needs to be said, but, everyone realizes that cleaning the bore is not a totally benign thing, right?

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