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<blockquote data-quote="Matt Giroux" data-source="post: 3619800" data-attributes="member: 45570"><p>Those chamber brushes are a life saver for AR's especially if shooting suppressed or in adverse conditions that can cause lots of carbon build up. I prefer brass cleaning rods, don't really know why guess cause that's what the old man used so that's what I use. For solvent and lube I've always used Hoppes no 9 for my run of the mill guns. I keep a special stash of Milsim and M7pro oil for my P365 and duck hunting shotgun since they are put under more adverse conditions than my others (I carry the 365 when I go for jogs and doing yard work...I sweat a lot). Normally will only field strip and use about 3 cloth patches when cleaning after a range trip with my plinking guns. After hunting season (insert gun here) will normally get a full strip down and deep cleaning since all of them are blued steel I go ahead and pull the wood off and do a good final oil rag wipe down then put the furniture back on to ensure no moisture will cause it to rust in an area I can't see while it sits in the safe for another year. Some of my higher end Sigs like my MK25 (P226 Navy) I have let go with just a little oil on the slide and barrel for my own personal experimentation just to see how they do without being cleaned adequately and small torture testing (+/-500-1000 rounds) before I ever touch them with solvent. I also performed similar minimal maintenance on my SHTF rifle just to see how it held up both suppressed and un suppressed. Other than those two instances I'm pretty religious about cleaning and oiling most of my weapons, even the safe queens get pulled out from time to time (about every 6 months) and taken down lightly oiled then back together. My EDC (P365 and Sig M11A1) get field stripped wiped down and oiled every week even if they haven't been shot. My old man did this weekly with his duty gun and again I learned it from him so its what I do with my EDC's.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Matt Giroux, post: 3619800, member: 45570"] Those chamber brushes are a life saver for AR's especially if shooting suppressed or in adverse conditions that can cause lots of carbon build up. I prefer brass cleaning rods, don't really know why guess cause that's what the old man used so that's what I use. For solvent and lube I've always used Hoppes no 9 for my run of the mill guns. I keep a special stash of Milsim and M7pro oil for my P365 and duck hunting shotgun since they are put under more adverse conditions than my others (I carry the 365 when I go for jogs and doing yard work...I sweat a lot). Normally will only field strip and use about 3 cloth patches when cleaning after a range trip with my plinking guns. After hunting season (insert gun here) will normally get a full strip down and deep cleaning since all of them are blued steel I go ahead and pull the wood off and do a good final oil rag wipe down then put the furniture back on to ensure no moisture will cause it to rust in an area I can't see while it sits in the safe for another year. Some of my higher end Sigs like my MK25 (P226 Navy) I have let go with just a little oil on the slide and barrel for my own personal experimentation just to see how they do without being cleaned adequately and small torture testing (+/-500-1000 rounds) before I ever touch them with solvent. I also performed similar minimal maintenance on my SHTF rifle just to see how it held up both suppressed and un suppressed. Other than those two instances I'm pretty religious about cleaning and oiling most of my weapons, even the safe queens get pulled out from time to time (about every 6 months) and taken down lightly oiled then back together. My EDC (P365 and Sig M11A1) get field stripped wiped down and oiled every week even if they haven't been shot. My old man did this weekly with his duty gun and again I learned it from him so its what I do with my EDC's. [/QUOTE]
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