Gun cleaning sucks!

[rooster]

There should be a cleaning service that comes to your house and cleans your guns. Maybe ultrasonically.

 

[Medusa Joe]

There should be a cleaning service that comes to your house and cleans your guns. Maybe ultrasonically.

i think GymRatz offers that service. give them a call

 

[FRS GOCAV]

I was an Armor Cav unit armorer for over 10 years. I had a lot of weapons to maintain. Hundreds of weapons. We used break free CLP to clean with. Just last week
I had seen in the GUNS and AMMO a metal defense anti rust spray and long term storge bags for all small arms. Look it up. apigunbags.com. Just a heads up.

 

[El_flasko]

Part of the reason I rarely shoot is that I hate cleaning them afterward.

Cleaning I don’t mind as much as much really. Although I don’t clean after each range session. The reloading Required too much time and concentration for me. When I stocked up a bit the value of my time outweighed the time it took to reload my two rifle cals.

 

[Combloc]

Firearms cleaning is most fun when you buy an old surplus rifle. You get to really disassemble it and detail it, all the while learning many of it's little secrets!

 

[Sundazes]

Firearms cleaning is most fun when you buy an old surplus rifle. You get to really disassemble it and detail it, all the while learning many of it's little secrets!

cosmoline sucks.
PSA, do not use your oven on low to melt it away if you are married.

 

[Combloc]

Embrace the commie cosmoline! I love the stuff. It just adds challenge to the cleaning and it smells good too! Now, I know I'm in the minority on this but I'm also a little strange; I'm aware of it.

 

[willtill]

Embrace the commie cosmoline! I love the stuff. It just adds challenge to the cleaning and it smells good too! Now, I know I'm in the minority on this but I'm also a little strange; I'm aware of it.

It’s a good smell. I have a couple of rifles that are still slathered a bit with cosmoline. When my east side of the house warms up with the sun, the smell of cosmoline will waft out and odorize the room.

 

[Moonlighter]

There's no better smell in the world than Cosmoline cooking off the brand new motorcycle you just bought.

 

[Sundazes]

There's no better smell in the world than Cosmoline cooking off the brand new motorcycle you just bought.

Not when it has been sitting on a rifle for 50 years.

 

[grasser]

i think GymRatz offers that service. give them a call

I'd like to offer that service too. I love to disassemble & clean pistols. It is a really relaxing activity.

 

[gamer_jim]

I enjoy cleaning them. Disassembling something capable of death and destruction to reassemble it back into working order. Like that one episode from MASH when Charles goes on a spiritual journey tearing apart a jeep into it's piece it becomes non-working.

 

[5cary]

Firearms cleaning is most fun when you buy an old surplus rifle. You get to really disassemble it and detail it, all the while learning many of it's little secrets!

Does it whisper to you in sultry French?

 

[Combloc]

ewwwwwww!

 

[Hibs]

I have stated my opinion and expanded on my background.

Wait, there's more than what is in your signature block?

It's extremely hard to take you serious with that monstrosity. You do seem like you know your way around an AR15. I'm disappointed that it's tarnished by that signature block that is so big it can't even let your head fit through the doorway. If you have to spend so much effort trying to convince people you know what you're doing, it makes people question your competency.

BTW, I agree with your post #269. Lube it, run it hard, clean as needed (aka, sparingly). Do you know how many times in my career I measured light / moderate / or heavy lube on my M4? Exactly ZERO. Throw me that CLP, squeeze some on the BCG, pull the BCG squeeze some more, cycle the BCG a handful of times, slap a mag and go back to work. Rarely needed to clean post-mission, unless you fell into a ditch / tripped off the ramp into a pile of dirt / etc. Post-mission everything typically got a light wipe down with a rag, lubed, then back together. Any actual "cleaning" usually took place after long range days. Even then, it was light carbon removal from BCG, bore snake, and lube only. I would venture to say the military runs their rifles harder than most. Is there stoppages, failures, breaks? Absolutely. They are just tools after all, nothing is indestructible.

Now that I've contributed nothing to this worthless thread, imma go browse the classifieds.