One of the few downsides to shooting more often is that, well, one has to clean more often as well.
I'm positively fanatical about cleaning. I wipe down my guns before I put them in the case at the range; if it's been an extended range session I'll run a brush through the bore to clean out the majority of gunk before I'm even off the line (this does not happen very often). I try to clean the same day as the shooting; barring that it's within 24 hours.
Since I've joined my club, I've gone shooting every week. While shooting more is always a good thing, it necessitates cleaning more. Now, since I'm shooting regularly, I don't feel the need to bring 10 guns to the range at once, so I'm cleaning fewer guns, but still... The level of cleaning has increased.
I stumbled across a handy little tip for cleaning revolvers. Now, I prefer a boresnake, especially if it's been a fairly low round count. One of the problems I've run into while cleaning revolvers is losing track of which cylinder I've cleaned. Well, I hit on something today:
When cleaning a revolver with a boresnake, feed the brass tip through the next cylinder before you finish the one you're cleaning.
Now, in a 5-shot J-frame this isn't as critical, but with a 7-shot L-frame or 9 shot Hi-Standard, it can get confusing (and yes, eventually you get to the point where you just look for the dirty cylinder...)
Just thought I'd pass it along.
That is all.
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Nice tip. I just have to remember to pick up a 38 caliber bore snake. Off to Midwayusa.com, I guess.
Do they make ex-tree long bore snakes?
You could feed it back and forth through all the chambers and then just yank really hard and be done all at once!
You will learn to relax that gun cleaning ritual one of these days. The gun is a mechanical device that doesn't care if it get dirty or not. You may think it cares but it really doesn't. My buddy has the same problem as you do and I can't make him understand that more guns have been ruined by cleaning than by shooting them. I'm not to sure about the WECSOG damage amount but you don't need to run a brush every time you clean a weapon - let the chemicals do the work. If an ex-Jarhead can learn to moderate his cleaning habits, you can too!!!
Joe R.
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