How often do you clean your carry weapon

[Crankylove]

I clean when they are dirty. A mag or two (or a couple cylinders) through the carry gun when I go out target shooting doesn’t justify a cleaning.

Used to have a 3” 1911 that I would clean before I shot it. First couple shots after it was disassembled/reassembled would always shoot about 10” high at about 7 yards. After the first couple shots, it settled in, and shot fine. Didn’t matter how many times I’d rack it manually after reassembling, would always shoot high. So, o started cleaning before the range trip, put a couple mags through it, then carry it dirty, before cleaning for the next range trip.

 

[Sigkid79]

when i first buy it and after a day at the range.

 

[jrothWA]

Initial detailing and lubing when first comes home.
After a range section, clean the bore and wipe down with oil [that you prefer].
Coming home from a match details it, to see if parts wearing /replacement.

off season detail again.

 

[Sure Shot Mc Gee]

When I get the erg too. Usually once a month. A good look over, rotation of clip, a wipe down w/micro fiber cloth slightly dampened with Break Free synthetic Clip Lubricant. Having a P7 M8 carry. Fact is its not a pistol its owner wants to disassemble as its workings is quite intricate.

 

[Nick_C_S]

How often do you clean your carry weapon?

Not as often as I should.

Until last month, I lived in California. My permit expired in November and I chose not to renew it (it's a two-year permit), considering I was only going to be there a few more months.

I'm in Idaho now and we have permitless carry. However, you must be an Idaho resident for nine months. So it'll be a while before I carry again. In cooler weather (and it's certainly cooler here !!), I can layer up and thus, carry my preferred piece: my 3" 686+ 357. With revolvers, cleaning is less of an issue

That said, I do need to get better at maintaining my compact 9mm carry piece (or whatever I'm carrying). I rarely shoot it too; but, at the risk of sounding smug, whenever I do shoot it, I blow out the center of the target, so I really don't see that as much of a problem (I shoot a lot of other handguns regularly). In Ca, you have to qualify with your specific carry piece(s) every two years. I believe, there was a time or two that I hadn't shot my carry piece between qualifications - seriously. But yes, maintenance was done between those periods.

I guess in the time I composed this, I could have given my 9mm a quick clean and lube, right?

 

[totaldla]

Not as often as I should.


I'm in Idaho now and we have permitless carry. However, you must be an Idaho resident for nine months. So it'll be a while before I carry again.

You don't have to be here 9 months - you just have to be here permanently (get your driver's license).
You have waiting times (6 months) to buy resident hunting/fishing licenses.

 

[jetinteriorguy]

Ya know, this thread reminds me…..

 

[Nick_C_S]

you just have to be here permanently (get your driver's license).

Getting my driver's license and registering the vehicles are on the agenda for next week. I'm not in a hurry to carry. I find it ironic that the places with permitless carry are also the places where you hardly need to (I know. It's neither ironic nor coincidental. But not going political here.)

Getting back to the subject of the post, I did clean my two carry guns today. My Kahr CW9 had quite an abundance of "pocket lint" in it. It was kind of disgusting, actually. Shame on me. The 686+ had lint in the barrel and charge holes, but that was it, of course. That one only took about 3 minutes to get spruced up and ready to go.

Now that I'm in Idaho, I can carry whatever I want. Whatever I carry, I promise I will make sure it's clean before I do so. I cleaned six guns today. More are forthcoming. They were being stored for me in my son-in-law's safe for the last year, while going through the move. It's so nice to be in Idaho. Sorry, I digressed - again.

 

[totaldla]

Getting my driver's license and registering the vehicles are on the agenda for next week. I'm not in a hurry to carry. I find it ironic that the places with permitless carry are also the places where you hardly need to (I know. It's neither ironic nor coincidental. But not going political here.)

Getting back to the subject of the post, I did clean my two carry guns today. My Kahr CW9 had quite an abundance of "pocket lint" in it. It was kind of disgusting, actually. Shame on me. The 686+ had lint in the barrel and charge holes, but that was it, of course. That one only took about 3 minutes to get spruced up and ready to go.

Now that I'm in Idaho, I can carry whatever I want. Whatever I carry, I promise I will make sure it's clean before I do so. I cleaned six guns today. More are forthcoming. They were being stored for me in my son-in-law's safe for the last year, while going through the move. It's so nice to be in Idaho. Sorry, I digressed - again.

The "constitutional" carry really removes the stress about carrying a firearm. Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, SD, (States I frequent) are just very relaxed about firearms.
But, a fellow still needs to maintain their carry weapon. I live close to a public range, so I put a few magazines through my carry pistols each month. And that causes me to do a boresnake, wipe-down and lube.

I recently serviced a Glock19 that hadn't been cleaned in 15 years, but shot occasionally and carried on the hip or pack all over. It is a Gen2, so no rust, but the firing pin channel was full of sand and crud to the point that the owner was getting occasional light strikes. Pistol was bone dry - no lube, squeaked when racking the slide, but ran. I pulled the firing pin, cleaned the channel, cleaned the crud around disconnector, cleaned the extractor, very lightly lubed the rails, and returned it - thinking I'll see it again in 10 years.

 

[dgludwig]

The "constitutional" carry really removes the stress about carrying a firearm. Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, SD, (States I frequent) are just very relaxed about firearms.

Fortunately, just about half the states in the Union are now "Constitutional Carry" states. Oddly, the last I heard, Florida hasn't got on board (yet).