How often do you clean your .22 LR?

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Posted: 8/18/2004 6:30:01 PM EDT

The bore that is?

Often, occasionally, never? Hundreds of rounds or thousands of rounds?

Posted: 8/18/2004 6:34:04 PM EDT

[#1]

When the spirit moves me.

Usually every few hundred rounds. YMMV

Posted: 8/18/2004 6:34:40 PM EDT

[#2]

Every 500 or so rounds I break it down and clean it.

Posted: 8/18/2004 6:34:46 PM EDT

[#3]

As often as I clean my AK

Sgtar15

Posted: 8/18/2004 6:37:44 PM EDT

[#4]

clean the bore on a rimfire???????

well, since i use jacketed ammo exlusively (except when I don't)... i don't. I just wipe em down and keep em oiled.

Posted: 8/18/2004 6:41:39 PM EDT

[#5]

I always do a "quick and dirty" cleaning
at the range when I'm done with any of
my weapons (couple of patches, swab out
the chamber, etc).

This is because I know that I am terrible
about keeping up with "proper" cleanings.

Posted: 8/18/2004 6:42:52 PM EDT

[#6]

w/in a day or two of taking it out shooting, everything is cleaned.

Posted: 8/18/2004 6:50:18 PM EDT

[#7]

i tend to neglect cleaning towards my 10\22.

i shoot it often and still runs fine after thousands of rounds....

i better go clean it.

anyway...its just the last on my list to ever clean.

Posted: 8/18/2004 6:51:18 PM EDT

[#8]

You're supposed to clean them?

Posted: 8/18/2004 6:54:54 PM EDT

[#9]

When it stops running.

Posted: 8/18/2004 7:06:32 PM EDT

[#10]

couple of pull thrus with a bore snoke about 1000 rounds or so. just to keep it running.

Posted: 8/18/2004 7:06:33 PM EDT

[#11]

Believe it or not I have a charter arms ar-7 that has had about 10k rds down the tube. I have never cleaned it. I bought it new in 1987.

Posted: 8/18/2004 7:12:21 PM EDT

[#12]

Every time I shoot it.

Posted: 8/18/2004 7:14:34 PM EDT

[#13]

I only clean it when it starts jamming.

Posted: 8/18/2004 7:16:25 PM EDT

[#14]

Same as my other guns; Annually. When a particular hunting season is over, I clean the weapon I used for it.

Posted: 8/18/2004 7:16:33 PM EDT

[#15]

Once every 500-10,000 rounds.

Posted: 8/18/2004 7:19:36 PM EDT

[#16]

I rarely clean my 10/22. I will but a couple bulk packs through it then maybe clean it. Mine seems the dirtier it is the better it shoots.

Posted: 8/18/2004 7:21:24 PM EDT

[#17]

Clean??? 22lr??? **YOU HAVE COMMITED AN ILLIGAL OPERATION**

Posted: 8/18/2004 7:38:50 PM EDT

[#18]

Clean enough to eat off of after every shoot more than 50 rounds.

Posted: 8/18/2004 7:53:38 PM EDT

[#19]

I never really clean it if I'm going to use it for the whole season. When I know I'll be storing it for more than three to four months, then I give it a thorough cleaning and lube job.

Posted: 8/19/2004 8:35:02 AM EDT

[#20]

Got mine in 1984. They cleaned it at the factory, right???

Posted: 8/19/2004 8:42:04 AM EDT

[#21]

Have a stainless Marlin- 6 years on my and my buddy's ranches and it has been cleaned once, in one of my weaker moments. Still accurate but there is enough sand in the action to make glass for that skylight project I want to do at my place

Posted: 8/19/2004 8:42:06 AM EDT

[#22]

Glad I'm not the only one!

CR

Posted: 8/19/2004 8:48:15 AM EDT

[#23]

I always do a "quick and dirty" cleaning
at the range when I'm done with any of
my weapons (couple of patches, swab out
the chamber, etc).

This is because I know that I am terrible
about keeping up with "proper" cleanings.

You are over cleaning. Clean the action but cleaning a .22Lr bore everytime you shoot can do far more harm than leaving it alone.

Clean a .22LR bore when it needs cleaning and that means when accuracy is affected.

Posted: 8/19/2004 8:53:28 AM EDT

[#24]

Hundreds of rounds for my little bolt action

I was part of a smallbore league and borrowed the same club 22 for 3 years. The rifle was 20+ years old, and I don't think the bore had been cleaned EVER. Eley Tenex was all it ever saw, approximately 200 rounds a week during the school year.

Posted: 8/19/2004 8:57:59 AM EDT

[#25]

the bore?

when there is a noticeable drop off in accuracy. anschutz recommends cleaning their probucts about every 5000 rounds.

my anschutz match rifle gets cleaned at the beginning and the end of each season (approx. 22 matches x approx. 50 shots fired per round).

i use only non-jacketed lead bullets...usually wolf match target ammunition. every now and again i'll try eley tenex or cc std. velocity.

the rest of my rimfire collection get treated the same. good wolf ammunition and a tetra coated rod thru it once a year if it saw significant use or just sat and needs a re-oiling of the bore.

the actions? the varies. the bolt guns are a quick clean & lube whenever the crud starts to build up in fron of the chamber.

the semi's get compressed air and spray lubed more frequently.

Posted: 8/19/2004 9:07:31 AM EDT

[#26]

you have to clean them?

Posted: 8/19/2004 9:08:26 AM EDT

[#27]

It's been 2-3K and it hasn't been cleaned yet....

Posted: 8/19/2004 9:08:59 AM EDT

[#28]

My Browning BLR-22 lever action gets cleaned whenever it starts jamming, usually 300-500 rounds. I take the back stock off, spray it with carb & choke cleaner, give it a shot of Rusty Duck, put it back together and away I go.

My Browning Buckmark get similarly neglected. I clean it when it gets irritating jams. Again, usually 300-500 rounds. When I DO clean it I give it a very thorough cleaning.

I pretty much shoot Winchester Dynapoint or Expert .22s.

I have a Marlin model 60 that's a Jam-O-Matic NO MATTER WHAT I DO. I need to take it to the next Funshow and trade it on something and let someone else put up with that POS. Sadly, it IS a very accurate rifle.

Posted: 8/19/2004 9:21:29 AM EDT

[#29]

Crap, I never clean any of my guns. Maybe a quick swipe if they look especially grimy, but I fugure it it fails simply because it was a little dirty then its not too reliable. I think this mania of super clean guns is a hold-over from the musket days.

Posted: 8/19/2004 9:24:03 AM EDT

[#30]

It dpends. I have 2 10/22's, one is the standard blued model with a synthetic stock and the ither is a highly acurized havy barell target model that I have close to $1000 in. The target model model I clean almost everytime I shoot it (usualy 500-600 rnds.). The other one, I have aprox. 15K rounds through it and havnt cleaned it except for once.

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