Detailed cleaning of CCW Glock

Mine still works fine after 10 years and no detailed cleaning other than what I can do with the slide/barrel off. It gets cleaned after several shooting sessions, or after 6 months or a year of off and on carry, if I remember.

The only thing you might want to do is every couple of years take the firing pin out and clean the channel. Oil, residue and brass shavings start building up in there and cause light strikes. It happened to me after I had the gun about ten years.

Not a Glock, but I clean the striker channel on my XDs once, or twice a year if I've really got nothing to do. Otherwise, it just gets a normal cleaning and lube after every range session.

If youre shooting it a lot, Id tear the slide down and give it a good cleaning, a couple of two or three times a year.

If youre mostly just carrying it, and not shooting it a lot, Id clean it weekly, and do the side once a year.

Buy a $125 buck Sears air compressor and blow the belly button lint out of it every 3 months, followed by regular cleaning, and Bee Happy!

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Any Glock reference guide that shows how to completely disassemble and assemble Glocks is sufficient.

Or just put in the dishwasher..................(j/k)

I get my G-17 and G-21 inspected & test fired by a Glock armorer at least once a year. In general the quality of most factory ammo is not nearly as good as it used to be, so perhaps I'm overly cautious.

Hickok45 has a couple of videos about detail stripping and cleaning Glocks on Youtube. No need for an armorer's class if you're comfortable with a little DIY. It really is that easy. Just make sure you leave the striker channel dry after cleaning and function test after reassembly (ideally on the range) before putting it back in the holster.

There's a point where cleaning becomes counterproductive to reliability.

Every time a gun is disassembled and reassembled, the potential exists for minor errors to occur. Every time a pin or a ring clip is driven out and replaced, it sits a little looser. Frequent disassembly will arguably cause more wear to a typical firearm that frequent use.

One of the main advantages of a glock is that they are proven to run reliably without the need of assuming this risk - just clean per the instructions in your manual, lubricate just as they say and no more, and occasionally clean the firing pin channel, maybe every 1000 rounds or so. Replace the recoil springs on the suggested schedule, and that's it. Anything more might make only serve to your gun less reliable in the long term.

What matters more is practice. Get some snap caps and use your time for dry-fire practice, and practice drawing from your holster. An expert's gun has a worn finish and smells faintly of spent powder. Safe queens are spotless and smell like expensive gun oil.

Sheepdog

I haven't yet taken an armors class

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Dude, Its a Glock. The proper procedure is to watch a YouTube video or two and have at it.

How often? For me, cuz I just have to take stuff apart, maybe once a year, maybe.

My EDC is a G36 that I shoot 150-200 rds a week. I field strip, clean and lube every couple of weeks. Takes less than 10 minutes. I strip the slide every 4-5 months or so. I do a full spring change about once a year and, while I have it down for that, I wipe everything off. That's after +/- 8K rds.

Probably more than it needs but that's my schedule. It is my EDC after all.

JohnBiltz The only thing you might want to do is every couple of years take the firing pin out and clean the channel. Oil, residue and brass shavings start building up in there and cause light strikes. It happened to me after I had the gun about ten years.

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You should NEVER oil the FP channel. Ever.
The plastic liner is all the lube the FP needs.

No oil, no residue, no light strikes.

Glocks were kind of designed to run dirty. From all I read about them, overlubrication is a bigger problem than not cleaning regularly.

I field strip & clean mine after each trip to the range, but that's me. I know of people who would only clean them every 1000 rds or so.

In the 4 years that I had my G17, I've only completely stripped the lower (didn't even attempt to strip & clean the striker) once, and mainly because I was curious. That's a few thousand rounds.

I do clean mags every year.

AK103K said:

If youre shooting it a lot, Id tear the slide down and give it a good cleaning, a couple of two or three times a year.

If youre mostly just carrying it, and not shooting it a lot, Id clean it weekly, and do the side once a year.

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+1. The only time I ever took a Glock down past basic groups was to put in a 3.5# disconnector, which I removed after determining the stock one was just fine.

If the gun is going to be your CARRY gun, you'd be best served by doing a periodic field strip and cleaning -- if it's been fired a bit -- but to spend your time and money practicing and getting some professional instruction.

There have been too many long-term tests of Glocks (and other guns, for that matter) with high round counts and no or only limited cleaning to think that keeping a carry gun pristine is all that important.

Back when ammo was corrosive, keeping guns clean was critical -- as they could lock up from rust very quickly. That is not longer the case -- but many folks' cleaning pratices are based on concerns about old ammo and were taught by folks who were brought up in that "shooting" world.

I carry a lot, shoot a little. So I get pocket lint and dust on/in my handgun.

I use a combination of things. Old toothbrushes, toothpicks, q-tips, solvents, brake parts cleaner, and lube.

If unfired, my typical monthly ritual is to field strip, knock the dust off with a tooth brush, and re-lube.

Also, if you use solvent or brake parts cleaner, be sure to lube afterwards.

I think the manual says once a year. Now you can learn to disassemble and clean the slide and such, which would probably be enough. Or you can take it to your LGS and have them clean it.

My blue label dealer in town won't clean my lower. They claim it's not necessary, even though I asked them to, then they said they can't. Yeah, some good an Armorer's certification does if they can't do their job.

There are armorer CD's out there that make the job easy, if you want to do it yourself. They are cheap ($20-25 range), and well worth more than you pay for them. The only other things you really need, is the take down tool, and maybe the sight tools, if youre going that far.

Just pick up THE COMPLETE GLOCK REFERENCE GUIDE, from Ptooma Productuions. I have the 3rd Edition. You'll find it at Cheaper than Dirt and Dillon, from time to time, and maybe on Amazon.

Everything you wanted to know about Glock, with lots of detailed photos and instructions to let you do ANYTHING you might need to do. The Glock is a very (elegantly) simple design.

Glocks are opposite most handguns when it comes to lube. The gun is made to run dry, just a drop or two on the rails and a dab on the trigger, for 30 years that's all I ever did to the ones I owned and never had a problem. Of course if you shoot a lot then you should field strip the gun and do what the gentleman mentioned above, with the Channel. I have had glocks that sat in the safe for 10 years loaded , and taken it out and it fired perfectly well both mags.
I don't recommend doing that, but that's part of the allure of that gun. Low Maintenance.

I detail strip and clean the slide every 500 to 1000 rounds. It's incredibly easy to do, nothing can be "worn out" by doing so, and I see no reason not to.

I detail the receiver only if I'm changing out a part, or at 5000 rounds when I replace the trigger spring. It too is pretty easy and straight forward. The reference guide recommended above is a good reference.

george burns said:

Glocks are opposite most handguns when it comes to lube. The gun is made to run dry, just a drop or two on the rails and a dab on the trigger, for 30 years that's all I ever did to the ones I owned and never had a problem. Of course if you shoot a lot then you should field strip the gun and do what the gentleman mentioned above, with the Channel. I have had glocks that sat in the safe for 10 years loaded , and taken it out and it fired perfectly well both mags.
I don't recommend doing that, but that's part of the allure of that gun. Low Maintenance.

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A drop should also be applied to the underside of the slide that rides on the barrel hood, a drop on the barrel lug that contacts the locking block, and a little on the outside of the barrel. 6 small drops for the entire gun is the proper amount.