How clean is your revolver?

[pwrtool45]

How do you clean the area on top of the forcing cone?

Take a piece of spent brass and mash the case mouth closed with a pair of pliers. Use one of the edges to clean around the forcing cone.

 

[Ben Shepherd]

One the cylinder face of STAINLESS revolvers use lead-away cloth. It's likely next to the silcone cloths on the store rack, and looks similar, but it is for a whole different purpose.

A one inch square and about 2 minutes time. Presto! Cylinder face is clean.

 

[aaronrkelly]

I pull a bore snake thru the chambers and the barrel. Then I wipe them down.

Thats it....good enough.

 

[DC3-CVN-72]

I'm one of those guys that enjoys cleaning and takeing apart guns, and old cars too. It's kind of like thierapy So my guns are verry clean.

 

[heritageguy]

What sort of concoction will take the burnt powder off the front of the cylinder on a bead blasted matte stainless finish?

SLIP2000 Carbon Killer (www.slip2000.com) will remove the carbon. Follow the instructions. IOSSO Gunbrite will also remove the carbon buildup with minimal rubbing.

 

[jad0110]

How clean? Clean enough to eat off of, if you could do such a thing . Judge for yourself ...

S&W Model 14:



S&W Model 686+:

 

[AStone]

In the past, I've been a "clean nazi".
I cleaned my guns after every shoot.

But SM (and others) have enlightened me.
Now, with their help, I've realized that with modern powders,
my guns will not disintegrate if I don't clean them as often.

And, I'm motivated to shoot more often
since I know I don't have to clean everytime.

Ahhhh.

After a long session,
I'll run a bore snake through bore and cylinder,
and wipe it down.

But I'll not perform a detailed cleaning
(with breakdown) until after 1000 rnds or so.

Bet my guns will outlive me.

 

[LightningJoe]

It's a gun, not Felix Unger's apartment. Life is short. Do something that matters.

 

[hemiram]

When I buy a new or new to me revolver or semiauto, I take it down to the parts level and look for anything wrong, cracks, etc, and clean it really well. I did find a cracked hammer on a used gun I bought once doing this. The place I bought it at fixed it in one day, and I never had another problem.

Then it goes back together and only gets a boresnake, a few patches with Breakfree on them, and a good wipedown. If I shoot some soft lead bulleted stuff, I get the Lewis Lead Remover out and give it a couple of pulls through before the boresnake goes in.

I used to really be obsessive about cleaning when I was in my 20's, a long time ago!

 

[atomchaser]

I wipe them down after shooting at the range and bore snake/toothbrush them after a couple trips unless they are having reliablity issues. I probably would do less, but the ghost of my father starts to bother me. He was pretty anal rententive about cleaning guns after use. He was WWII vet and I think they really had cleaning drilled into there heads due to corrosive ammo/combat conditions of the day.

I'd rather spend my limited free time shooting rather than cosmetic cleaning.