How Often to Clean and Lube

[LProf]

I typically shoot once a week and clean and lube after each range visit.

However, I will be putting 50 rounds through my CM9 today, Monday, which will complete the recommended 200 round break in, and intend to shoot again on Wednesday.

Question is what do most of you do? Should I clean and lube after shooting the 50 rounds today, or wait until I aM back from the range on Wednesday,when I will likely put another 50 rounds through the gun?

Thanks

[Tinman507]

I would wait, but that's just me.

[MikeyKahr]

I would clean and lube, but that's just me. I enjoy it and find it relaxing. Plus it is my CCW and I always want to do everything in my power to make sure it is good to go should it be called upon.

[Rubb]

If I was going to carry it between those times... I would clean & lube.

[zamboni]

If I was going to carry it between those times... I would clean & lube.


^^^^what he said.

[DeeDubya]

I always patch the barrel and wipe down any gun every time I shoot. Just old habits but somtimes my plans to shoot again are changed and days could go by. It takes a couple minutes so why not?

[LProf]

Well, I am not carrying it until the break in is complete, so will probably wait until Wednesday, put my JHP through it, and if all goes well begin to carry it.

Thanks for the responses.

[tkill]

Just for an opposing view...

It might make more sense that a gun shouldn't be carried immediately after a cleaning, until a few rounds have been put through it as a function test. I'm not talking as a new gun only and a break in test. I'm saying every time a gun is disassembled, after it is reassembled it should be function tested before trusting your life to it. And what better way to function test than to run a few mags through it.

No top competitive shooter would ever shoot a match with a gun that hadn't been fired since its last cleaning.

[eklipto101]

If you want something to do, do it if not wait

[Flincher]

Always clean and lube my semi-autos after 500 rounds, except the little "pocket rockets" like the P380, and Sig238--those I clean and lube after approx. 150 rounds.

[cjive134]

It depends on how I feel. I usually clean after every trip to the range, but sometimes I wait until I have fired about 100 rounds or more.

All that said, I don't think you have to clean that often if you don't want to.

[garyb]

It looks like you already got some good opinions. Kind of common sense stuff. For what it's worth, I try to keep my guns cleaned and lubed. I enjoy the process and knowing that it is protected and in tip top shape. It is a good idea to shoot / break in a new gun so you are confident with it's performance and you know it well, especially if you are carrying it.

[O'Dell]

Obviously you can do as you please, but I clean and lube every time a bullet goes down the barrel - even if it's one round. I also clean and relube every 90 days if I haven't used the gun. I can't prove the correlation, but I've only had problems with a handful of guns of the hundreds I've owned over 45 + years.

[Sage]

I'm a little anal about cleaning. If I shoot it I clean it. If I don't shoot it I clean it about once a month.

[jocko]

nothing anal about that, IMO. Some seem to wanna pride themselves in NOT CLEANING and being able to say I shoot yadda yadda number of rounds and never cleaned it. IMO leave that sh!t to the gun makers so they can brag about their product. YOU PROVE NADDA.

I can say from experience. I once had a kel tek (yes I kknow , areal sh!t gun) but at the time it was thw smallest little 380 out there andI was bent on proving it woud run and run and run. I had shot well over 2K rounds out of that gun and nuttin broke and the gun ran great. I posted the results.

#1 no one believed me
#2, I wasted alot of money in this endurance test
#3. I proved absolutley nuttin other than how fokking stupid I was

and it was not to long after that that the recoil spring wore right through the front of the slide and poked a big hole in the front of the slide, resulting in a new slide. So oh yea, ol jocko "sure showed um"../ Stupid is as stupid does: Forrest gump.

[muggsy]

I clean every gun after each range session. If you can't take your gun apart and put it back together again without worrying if it will function properly after cleaning then shame on you. I've never had a gun fail to fire after cleaning it.

[jocko]

amen to that..

[downtownv]

Clean isn't the important thing the lube is and no sense greasing a dirty gun.

[KCAutoBob]

OOh, brother! If the voices weren't bad enough, Now I'm getting messages through my computer screen--" GO CLEAN YOUR GUNS!"

Okay, already, I'm cleaning 'em, I'm cleaning 'em!

[jocko]

I sure hope u don't start hearing voices about things to do to sheep. Just sayin

[LProf]

Well, I couldn't bear the guilt, my thing, of not cleaning the gun, so I wound up cleaning it, even though, perhaps, not necessary. But, I do feel better about it.

The additional practice of disassembly and reassembly didn't hurt either.

Thanks for all the responses. Much appreciated.