Firearm BS thread

Uh, I'm afraid if I tried that with my wife, she would agree she should have gone with bigger.

 

OOWWWW!( Andrew dice clay)

 

Someone showed me this one day and it helped me a lot. Use your off hand for a tight grip and focus more on on your trigger pull with your main hand.

 

We call that a 60-40 grip

 

The brackets arrived today. They are very rugged & seem very well made. Got the 3/4" conduit cut to 5' and 2x4's cut to 42". They initially seemed a little tall once all assembled, but I think once I add the targets & chain, they'll be just right. Picked up some of those rubber furniture/chair feet and they fit perfectly on the conduit. Since I shoot mostly in gravel pits, it'll keep the dirt & gravel out of the end. Now I'm deciding whether to paint the legs black or leave as is. My practical side says "leave as is", but my mild OCD side is saying "paint black".

 

The day after I turned 21, I sent in my Form 1 to the ATF to get my AR registered as a SBR. That was August 2005, and it was approved April 2006. No sooner than just after I married in 2007, my ex... uh... 'suggested' that I sell it since I didn't shoot it much. Sold off everything except the stripped lower receiver that I've been sitting on until now. Nearly 10 years.

Circa May 2006. 5.56 10.5" LMT upper and collapsible stock, Knights Armament 2-piece quad rail.


All the parts finally arrived today. Essentially rebuilding it as a .300 Blackout 9.5" Griffin Armament upper with a Troy Tomahawk short stock/BCG among other goodies.



Returning to the good life. The pew pew life.

 

With my brother in law's Carbon 15

 

Serious question (remember I'm a n00b) - How often do you clean your handgun?

Say you go to the range every week (once a week)... Do you clean it after every shooting? Do you clean it after every few shootings?

Thanks in advance

 

Depends on the type of gun I would say, and also personal preference. I clean my guns after every range session. Also, if you are ever going to carry concealed NEVER carry a dirty gun...that could put you in a bad situation if you were ever in an altercation. Hard to claim you never pulled the trigger if your weapon is coated in powder and carbon.

 

Thanks for the quick reply.

I have a Springfield XDM 4.5" 9mm. So far I have cleaned it after every range session but just wanted to know if that was excessive.

As for concealed carry... I live in the Republic of Maryland and as of now unless you are a LEO or business owner.. You can't CC.

 

Ah man sorry to hear that about Maryland...but yeah I don't think you can over clean if your using the right products. I try to steer clear of heavy solvents. Personally, I just use some Hoppes on the barrel once I've scrapped all that carbon buildup out, shouldn't be a problem if you clean your gun regularly.

For the rest of the gun, do yourself a favor and buy a tub of this

Slide-Glide Gun Lube, Lite, Tub

https://www.amazon.com/Slide-Glide-...d=1487947020&sr=8-1&keywords=enos+slide+glide
This stuff is amazing, keeps everything super lubed and traps a lot of that carbon and powder residue so when you clean it all comes out together. I use it in all of my competition 1911's and its a total game changer.

 

You would probably just find that much like the guns its used on, you may just shoot a little quicker

 

I'm sure you "friend" appreciates you lending a hand!

 

Pygmy rattlesnake kill that thing!

 

That ain't right man! But that would have been funnier if it had been the middle finger, LOL

 

Depends on the guns.

Pistols i shoot fairly often - Whenever i get around to it and feel like it. Usually ends up being between 500-1000 rounds. Some have gone longer and some have gone less.

Rifles I shoot fairly often - When accuracy starts to take a hit. Or i get around to it. Usually ends up being around 200 rounds on the precision guns and 200-500 on the others.

Pistols and Rifles I dont shoot often - If shooting corrosive ammo its right after the range. If not then usually within a few days of the range trip and then back to "storage" they go.

I dont get your reasoning for never carrying a dirty gun....so only carry clean guns incase some random guy is shot so you can prove you didnt shot him?

Every carry gun/home defense gun/truck gun i have will be dirty. After cleaning they get 50 rounds through them to ensure nothing was assembled/damaged during cleaning before going "back in service".

 

For the sake of skipping a long thread bashing the new guy, I'll just say I've never, ever heard of this logic. I'll go further in saying that I try not to carry a perfectly clean gun, because I want to know that it fires in its current state. Cleaning = field stripping for me, and there's always that hint of doubt for me after I reassemble that maybe I didn't do it quite right.

I'll wipe down a gun after a range trip, but I don't break down my pistols to clean until they're really dirty, like after an extended session with a suppressor.

 

People get so anal over cleaning, but it's really not as necessary as many would have you believe. Primers and powder used to be corrosive and dirty. That's why old timers cleaned every time they shot. Today, they are not. Some are even self cleaning with decoppering agents added.

My range guns get cleaned about once a year or when they malfunction, whichever comes first. That's usually anywhere from 100-1000 rounds. My carry gun gets cleaned a little more often, but I shoot a magazine through it at least every 7-10 days, and I'm not going to bother cleaning it after one magazine. If your carry gun can't work 100% with that little use, get a better gun.

Clean as often as you feel you need to, just realize it's probably not as often as you really do. I'd rather spend my time shooting and reloading than cleaning guns every 3 or 4 days.

 

When I first started getting into shooting I was religious about cleaning my guns after every shooting trip and tried to get them as clean as the day I bought them. After getting lazy a few times and letting them sit I found that it didn't seem to have much of an effect on accuracy or FTF so anymore I'll strip them down and give them a good cleaning once or twice a year but I'm not nearly as picky about getting every last bit of fouling off as I used to be.

Now I just think about how much time I wasted cleaning guns that could've been used for productive things like reloading ammo (which I am still anal as all hell about).

 

I really want a Colt series 70 in stainless all the sudden. Anyone have one of those? Thinking some pearl grips for just over the top bling.