Only hard at first so..
Quote: Lonestar, how often do you usually strip the compact .45 and re-lube it now?
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Once you get past the second disassembly, and reassembly, it's all downhill (easy) from there..
I usually, with either of my 45's, go thru only 50 - 100 rounds per range visit with them, and 200 rounds of either 9mm or 40cal, depending on which gun I take with either of my 45's, and walk out of a war zone.. lol
So, with the Defender, I do a complete disassembly and clean at around the 250 round mark, which I keep records of all shots of all my guns.
I use EEZOX for light cleaning and with a bore-snake on all my guns in-between, along with just before heading to the range, I add a tad of gun oil via the vertical method, slide locked open, and let gravity take it down for a min, then cycle the slide/s 4-5 times, and your/I'm good to go..
This, along with using EEZOX on a Q-tip to clean the feed ramps, etc., and the tops and insides of mags, to get out any powder residue, by using a pencil, eraser end, and push down the mag springs to get to all the walls with the Q-tip..
It all has been working, no issues.. and both my 45 and 9mm 1911's have been to the range twice, in the last month, and are at 155 rounds, and *400 rounds respectively, at 100%, as of this moment.
*The EMP 9mm is far more forgiving IMHO, and falls into the 500 round max, before total disassembly in my book, if I don't clean them both at the same time FYI.
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