How To Keep Your Guns Clean?

Keeping guns clean is a very important thing. Clean guns can not only make you more accurate when shooting, but also make you safer when using them. So how do you keep your guns clean? The most important thing is that you need to clean your gun regularly.

1. Remove the magazine and ensure the firearm is unloaded!

It is important to remove the magazine and ensure the firearm is unloaded!

2. Clean the Barrel and Chamber

Dry brush the chamber and barrel with a copper-phosphate or nylon bore brush in a chamber to muzzle direction. This will loosen and remove some of the large carbon and metal fouling from the bore.

Then place a cleaning patch dipped in bore solvent on the tip of your cleaning rod. Next, push the cleaning patch through the barrel and out the other side and saturate the chamber and bore surface. Avoid pulling it back through, which will redeposit dirt and gunk back into the bore.

Allow the cleaning solvent to break down bore fouling for 10-15 min. Next, use just the bore brush to scrub the inside of the barrel. Use a new, dry patch to remove any residue and keep running it through the bore until the patch comes out clean.

After that, use a pull-through tool impregnated with a light lubricant to further clean and treat the bore surface against corrosion. Then clean the exterior of the barrel, barrel hood, barrel lug, and feed ramp.

3. Clean and Lubricate the Action

You need to clean and lubricate more than just the barrel of the gun. The action should also be cleaned using a nylon utility brush, dry cloth, and action cleaner solvent.

Lastly, use a needle applicator to precisely apply lubricant drops at the specified lubrication points on the frame/action, slide assembly, and exterior of the barrel, as recommended by the manufacturer. It is important not to over-lubricate, as this will more readily attract contaminant accumulation and could potentially cause reliability issues.

4. Don’t Forget the Magazines

Magazines are the source of ammunition and are responsible for the proper feeding of a semiautomatic firearm. Reliable, clean magazines are critical for the proper operation of a semiautomatic. They can be disassembled, cleaned, and reassembled according to the manufacturer’s instructions.

5. Reassemble the Firearm and Perform a Functional Check

Anytime a firearm is disassembled and reassembled, a functional check needs to be conducted in order to ensure that the firearm still operates as designed following the disassembly.

6. Wipe Down the Outside of the Gun

Once the inside of the gun and it’s moving parts are clean and lubricated, it’s time to clean the exterior. This is also important part for your gun cleaning process.

A clean gun is also a safe gun and a reliable gun. Regular gun maintenance ensures accuracy, reliability, your comfort and confidence level in using the weapon, as well as preserving the functionality and appearance of your guns.