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maybe likes firearms a little bit…
The committee voted 'clean'. Yes, it is still a personal choice. God bless America.
New gun- to clean or not to clean...
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Sunray
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With a Buck Mark, doing anything to it won't make a lick of difference. There's no collector interest and it's highly unlikely there ever will be.
However, all new firearms require a bath before shooting. There's factory preservatives on 'em.
"...some desiccant..." Desiccants require periodic replenishing. They're no use for long term storage. Grease is for long term storage.
However, all new firearms require a bath before shooting. There's factory preservatives on 'em.
"...some desiccant..." Desiccants require periodic replenishing. They're no use for long term storage. Grease is for long term storage.
Most new guns come from the factory coated with some kind of oil/ preservative so that they won't rust if they sit around a good while before selling. If you aren't going to shoot it then I would leave that factory coating on the gun. I bought an extra S&W M&P 15 Sport about 4 years ago. Left it just the way it came and slid the box and all under the bed. It looks like when I bought it
bikemutt
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I try to do as little as possible to a new gun before firing it the first time, if it has to go back to the factory I want as little responsibility for the reason as possible. Once I know it works the way it's supposed to, then I'll field strip, clean, lube and reassemble.
Howland
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I stopped by a yard sale and a double rifle case caught my eye. The lady said she wouldn't separate it from the two rifles inside which had been her late husband's.
Being a gun guy, I checked out the rifles. She was asking a pretty penny for each and said both were custom rifles her husband had had built.
I looked down the barrel and was floored. I hoped her late husband had the good sense to put cosmoline in them but without running a patch through it could have been a very thick coating of rust I was seeing. I told her my suspicions and she thought I was just trying to knock her down on the price and a fellow that was with her came over basically to tell me if I wasn't interested at her price to quit bad-mouthing the merchandise in front of other customers and ****. When I told him that I wasn't interested in any more rifles regardless of price or condition and my only interest was the case which she had already made plain was not available separately, he started to listen. Later I stopped by with a barrel light and showed him. I sure hope someone listened and determined what was in there.
As to new rifles generally coming oiled, I just picked up a Gen2 PA10. Absolutely bone dry. I mean everything.
I ran an oiled patch down the barrel and it came out black. This wasn't from a factory test firing because I bought the upper and lower separately. This was from the machining. I scrubbed the bore with JBs and then after a few more oiled patches it finally came out clean.
Being a gun guy, I checked out the rifles. She was asking a pretty penny for each and said both were custom rifles her husband had had built.
I looked down the barrel and was floored. I hoped her late husband had the good sense to put cosmoline in them but without running a patch through it could have been a very thick coating of rust I was seeing. I told her my suspicions and she thought I was just trying to knock her down on the price and a fellow that was with her came over basically to tell me if I wasn't interested at her price to quit bad-mouthing the merchandise in front of other customers and ****. When I told him that I wasn't interested in any more rifles regardless of price or condition and my only interest was the case which she had already made plain was not available separately, he started to listen. Later I stopped by with a barrel light and showed him. I sure hope someone listened and determined what was in there.
As to new rifles generally coming oiled, I just picked up a Gen2 PA10. Absolutely bone dry. I mean everything.
I ran an oiled patch down the barrel and it came out black. This wasn't from a factory test firing because I bought the upper and lower separately. This was from the machining. I scrubbed the bore with JBs and then after a few more oiled patches it finally came out clean.
hemiram
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I clean all of them before I shoot them. I mostly buy used guns and some of those would have had issues if I hadn't cleaned them. I've had magazines full of dead baby spiders, mags with broken springs, revolvers full of unburned powder to the point cocking them was difficult. Bores on rifles that looked like someone painted them with thick flat black paint from shooting a lot of .22LR. An Astra A-100 was full of some kind of polishing compound that had splattered all over the gun, making the previous owner think it was rusty. Good deal for me, one of my best on GB. And a couple of guns had lube that had turned into a concrete or plasterlike substance due to age that had to be scraped out before they could be shot. And a lot of used guns just needed to be cleaned, they were nasty. I kind of like guns on auction sites that are really dirty as it seems to keep the price down.
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