How often do you clean your gun? love it or hate it?

[Will Hewland]

Keep mine pretty clean. I used to do a really full job every time, but now do light cleans and a fuller job every three or four shoots.

I grease all the joint and knockles, so always remove and replace the grease after every time. Old grease gets dry and dirty so must be removed.

Every few hundred shells, I remove ejectors and clean slides up etc. Every few thousand, I remove firing pins and clean the seats.

Top tip, I use a long match, sharpened, to push a bit of cleaning paper all round the ejectors after a bore clean. Gets into all the fiddly bits without removing them.

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[Darkside]

Dry-Gets a wipe.

Wet-Full clean

Wish I lived in a dryer climate...........

 

[Will Hewland]

You should always at least push some cleaner spray and paper through the barrels in winter. Look in the barrels when you get home after a shoot on a cool day. Condensation is all around the forcing cones, which will rust in some guns..

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