Proper way to clean pistol?

[harold63]

Has anyone mentioned a power washer or a sand blaster yet?

Try a sonic cleaner, works great with Glocks.

My brother in law puts his disassembled 1911's and two Ruger revolvers in his dish washer. I think he uses Cascade. True story.

[rwb1500]

My brother in law puts his disassembled 1911's and two Ruger revolvers in his dish washer. I think he uses Cascade. True story.

Hahaha!

I'm more of a casual gun cleaner, but it depends on the gun and what it's used for. If I'm out shooting on a hot day and sweating on a blued gun you better believe I'm more concerned about giving it a good wipe down and a coat of oil than I am about the internals being soiled from shooting a few rounds.

Carry guns are different. Keep them clean, properly lubed, but don't go crazy. If it's clean and lubed you don't need to clean it again.

[OwnTheRide]

I am amazed and a little bit scared at the "clean? what's that?" crowd.

Yep, I know it seems unnecessary. You know what else often seems unnecessary? Checking to see if a gun is loaded when you know it isn't.

Just sayin'. Y'all can do what you want with your guns, but a lot of the habits we've been taught by our grandfathers were put in place for a reason.

[wishIhada5.0]

clean is mean....watch goin too crazy on the oil/slide grease with a pocket piece...it'l only aid in collecting lint lol

[jshwak]

an occasional clean is good.. but don't be to anal about it.. especially the oil.. oil can be your worst enemy if used to heavily.

[MaGreat]

I have to say, this topic has been tremendously fulfilling. I knew different people had different ways of doing things, but I was surprised over and over again by some of the responses in this topic. I didn't think many of them were even possible, but apparently, I'm not always right.

Thanks for the responses, everyone!

clean is mean....watch goin too crazy on the oil/slide grease with a pocket piece...it'l only aid in collecting lint lol

Not to mention touching it without giving yourself greasy fingers is nigh impossible.

[RUT]

clean guns? only when they stop functioning.

You can usually tell who's had military training and who hasn't.

[/dev/null]

UNLOADED!!!

This SEEMS self-explanatory, but you'd BE surprised...

War Wagon beat me to it... ask Curmudgeon!

http://forum.pafoa.org/general-2/452...e-warning.html

[Brick]

I only use solvent on the inside of the barrel and the feed ramp. Rest are Break-free CLP.

FYI here's the CLP in Break-Free Cleaner, Lubricant, Preservative

But all kidding aside. I've seen too many good guns ruined by over-zealous and improper cleaning (your Drill Sgt isn't always right!). There are huge differences between cleaning for storage or cleaning guns that are fired a lot and cleaning guns carried in the field and subject to dust, mud, rain etc. Use a little common sense.

[bortle]

[QUOTE=300WM;1629052]My brother in law puts his disassembled 1911's and two Ruger revolvers in his dish washer. I think he uses Cascade. True story.[/QUOT[/I]
If I put a gun in my dishwasher she'd hit me.