Crow wrote: Sat Oct 23, 2021 11:48 am
tonguengroover wrote: Sat Oct 23, 2021 10:41 am
Funny, there's a seriously long discussion about whether or not one should ever clean a .22 cal rifle over at thehighroad.org
Perhaps thats why my 10/22 trigger group is messed up, cus I cleaned it. But I believe it's more so about the barrel.
I just pull a boresnake through the barrel a couple times with a little Balistol and call it good with my .22 rifles. My Ruger Blackhawk .22 revolver needs a thorough cleaning after 60 rounds.
Crow
As for a cleaning regimen, I was taught in AJROTC (high school) to clean the thing every time it came off the range.
I did that for a while with my pistols when I first got them (fourteen months or so, now), but have slacked off a bit so that I inspect the barrel if the thing has been in the holster a few days between cleanings and before shooting, and if the barrel isn't obstructed, life goes on.
I had a feed problem with my AR-platform a few months ago, and tracked it to the polymer coating on the steel casings not getting brushed out of the chamber, so rather than sell off the remaining rounds, I use them for plinking and range trips of less than two hundred rounds, and clean the chamber when it comes home.
All of that gets done from the breech end of the barrel. I was a little surprised when I read the manual on the Rossi Rio Bravo (22LR lever-action), and the only cleaning even mentioned is to run a brush in from the muzzle end, run a few patches with CLP until they come out clean, and go on with life. I can't bring myself to look in the muzzle end of a barrel unless the barrel is completely separated from the rest of the parts, but...
Eventually I'll figure out this signature thing and decide what I want to put here.