BJung
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I wash my clothes when it's about time; they smell or look too dirty. I do about the same with my guns.
One of the indoor ranges I go to has a young lady clean their rental guns weekly. She will clean customer handguns for $25 and rifles for $35. I have her clean my Henry once a year. I clean all my other guns.Does anyone have a local shop which is offering cleaning services?
Does anyone have a local shop which is offering cleaning services? What’s the cost? I don’t think it’s common anywhere I have lived in the Midwest, but maybe somewhere there IS such a service?
Stores and shops offer basic optic mounting services because they sell optics, and often offer basic gunsmithing/repairs, but typically only on optics and/or firearms they sell. I’m not familiar with folks hanging flyers out for gun cleaning services.
Same. And the first and last choices are the same. Need more/better choices in this poll, IMO.Somewhere in between, so none of the above.
….has a young lady clean their rental guns weekly. I have her clean my Henry once a year.
Actually @Scout21 if you get into a good prairie dog town it's really easy to shoot a rifle to the point where it loses a lot of accuracy due to copper build up in the grooves. And I've shot enough 22s through my ruger mkII to have extraction issues due to powder residue on the bolt face. But that took years to happen.I'm very surprised that I'm the only one so far that has said that they don't need cleaning. Granted, I don't shoot nearly as much as many others, but I've never had a gun stop working due to being dirty. I'm not an expert shot, but I've also never noticed any degradation in accuracy from unclean bores.
I wipe them down after each use with a lightly oiled rag to ward off rust, and maybe a pull through with a lightly oiled bore snake if they'll be sitting for a good while. Otherwise they're left alone.
The last time I cleaned a gun was actually somewhat recently. I cleaned up the bolt, breech face, and receiver of my 10-22, simply because I wanted to see what it looked like clean. Didn't touch the bore.
There’s a very nice indoor $hooting range nearby that along with getting your morning latte & retrieving your guns out of your personal gun vault, shoot, & then drop of you dirty filthy guns for cleaning on the way out.
https://www.libertyrange.com/
https://www.coloradoguncleaners.com/gun-cleaning/
Wow.... I happen to know folks who not only use a gun store employee to sight their firearms, but also to clean them. ...
I want to make one exception. If I'm shooting corrosive ammo, I clean my gun as soon as I return home.I wash my clothes when it's about time; they smell or look too dirty. I do about the same with my guns.