How Often do you clean your gun during hunting season

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How Often do you clean your gun during hunting season

Postby River Hunter » Sun Dec 11, 2005 9:35 pm

just curious to know your thoughts on cleaning your gun. What do you use to clean it and how often do you do it????? I use nothing but rem oil, i found that things like WD40 and others do more harm than good. For one WD40 causes rust and will freeze up if it gets cold enough. :evil:
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Postby SoftCall » Sun Dec 11, 2005 11:50 pm

depends on where I was hunting and how nasty it was. As a rule, I clean my auto after every hunt in the peanuts. If you don't, you'll be shooting a single shot the next day. I totally strip it down with gun scrubber or brake cleaner and lightly oil the rails, the feeder arm and where the two surfaces of the bolt meet. I'll clean the O/U a couple of times a season though...it's the firearm of choice and has lost at least a dime size chunk of varnish in every brake, lake or bean field I could get on in the good ole delta :wink:

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Postby ducman77 » Mon Dec 12, 2005 1:19 am

:shock: NEVER :shock: lol
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Postby Don Miller » Mon Dec 12, 2005 4:05 am

Almost never. I semi retired the SBE and am shoot the ol 870 now. :D No more hang ups! :D :D
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Postby mudsucker » Mon Dec 12, 2005 4:45 am

Ya mean we gotta clean them things? :oops:
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Postby sunnylab » Mon Dec 12, 2005 5:07 am

i try to clean the outside more often than the internal
action. Prob twice a year i give it a good cleaning.
and i shoot a benelli. seems nobody likes them on
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Postby Hayes » Mon Dec 12, 2005 7:33 am

i hunt with a browning gold hunter and if im hunting sloughs or anything with water i clean it after every hunt.
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once

Postby jdbuckshot » Mon Dec 12, 2005 8:01 am

once a year weather it needs it or not

i shoot a sbe, but thats with every shot gun
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Postby Super Black Eagle » Mon Dec 12, 2005 8:33 am

sometimes I dip it on the drink and shake it around a little.
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Postby crow » Mon Dec 12, 2005 8:47 am

Fact is, I like cleaning my guns. It's like any of my other duckstuff...half the fun is fooling with it. I buy good stuff and take care of it. A gun is a lot like a woman...you can only ignore it so long and it will make sure you pay then. And the cost of not paying attention is usually a lot more painful!

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Postby Double R 2 » Mon Dec 12, 2005 9:14 am

often as it needs it to perform flawlessly
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Postby QUACKERS » Mon Dec 12, 2005 9:21 am

i clean mine after every two or three hunts. has only let me down once and that was last week but it was my fault put the trigger mechanism back togother wrong. :oops:
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Postby wildhorse2 » Mon Dec 12, 2005 11:28 am

I clean my Super X2 once or twice a season. I have never had a problem except with some Kent shells that got wet. I guess I have fired around 3,000 rounds out of it in 3 years. My gun definitly shows signs of neglect but it keeps up with me just fine.
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Postby qckmstr » Mon Dec 12, 2005 11:48 am

i clean my auto's after every weekend of hunting.. that'em all the way down and get all the mud and/or water out. then on benelli's.. i take them apart replace the broken parts, re-tack weld the barrel and put her back together so i will have my push pole for the next weekend !!! :lol: :lol:
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Postby laduck » Mon Dec 12, 2005 12:18 pm

If you want a gun left, you had better clean it every time you hunt in the brackish marshes of the coast. However, you might fall asleep when you get home (and not clean it). :D :D :D :D :D
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