"This gun is harder to clean than that gun......etc."

[jrhines]

Browning A5 shotgun, by far the worst.

 

[dukeofurl]

I dont understand why revolvers are such a pain in the ass.

For me:

Unscrew - remove cylinder and arm.

Spray liberally with cleaner, scrub like the dickens - frame and cylinders/barrel.

Nothing to it!

 

[BamBam-31]

I have a hard time with my P7. It's not the barrel, that's easy. It's the breechface, piston, and area underneath the barrel. For some reason, I have to get every spec of fouling off, and that takes a lot of time. All my other pistols are easy in comparison. Even my revolver, with all it's nooks and crannies, is relatively easy.

 

[Preacherman]

Ha! All of you are wusses! Just ask any ex-Navy type about having to clean a 5" (or the British equivalent 4.7") naval cannon, on an open deck, in heavy seas, during a tropical storm!

 

[13A]

I hear ya Preacherman. How about a howitzer. Clean the day of firing and 3 days after or until the sweating stops. Several men to push that bore brush.

 

[jsalcedo]

The only time I have broken guns is during cleaning.

I have learned my lesson.

A friend of mine who is rather careless left his brand new 8'' MKII bull barrel in the pole barn for a couple of weeks. When he retrieved it it had light surface rust.

I told him to use fine 0000 steel wool to remove the rust and save the bluing.

He grabbed 00....

 

[BerettaNut92]

I didn't mind cleaning my HK USPs. Everything else I hated cleaning.

 

[Cowgunner]

M-2 Browing Heavy Machinegun. You need about 3 people to clean all the parts.....

 

[The Rabbi]

Cleaning the 1911 is only one of my many complaints about the gun. I doubt I ever cleaned it without injuring myself.
The Colt 1925 .25acp is a "joy" as well--the firing pin has a tendency to launch itself across the room.
But hands down the worst was the Smith mini-Smegma in .380. There was no obvious take-down. Turns out you have to punch out the roll-pin on the slide to take it down. Hardly worthit.