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Do you know someone interested in buying a gun?Whats your favorite online retailer for guns?
Do you know someone interested in buying a gun?Whats your favorite online retailer for guns?
Whats your favorite online retailer for guns?
So I have a question about cleaning. In general, do you use something like hoppes #9/elite to clean the barrel (is that all that needs cleaning?), then oil for the entire outside surface, then a grease for metal on metal parts?
So I have a question about cleaning. In general, do you use something like hoppes #9/elite to clean the barrel (is that all that needs cleaning?), then oil for the entire outside surface, then a grease for metal on metal parts?
Go to YouTube. There's literally thousands of videos on how to clean guns. Same with probably how to clean your specific gun.
As for what's used...everyone has there methods. Hicock45 uses only ballastial (think that's what it was) for everything vs other who use grease and all sorts of stuff.
So I have a question about cleaning. In general, do you use something like hoppes #9/elite to clean the barrel (is that all that needs cleaning?), then oil for the entire outside surface, then a grease for metal on metal parts?
So after using break free clp you don't need to add anything else? Seems a little too easy lol.
What really gets dirty besides the barrel?
I was playing around with my M1a Socom 16 tonight, and added a MOE rail to the stock and a Magpul AFG2 grip. I really like the feel of the rifle better with the AFG, and it is a whole lot cheaper dremeling out a bit of the inside of the stock than it is to buy a different stock entirely for it. Hoping to try it out with the new grip this weekend.
Pretty much everything around the chamber will get coated with carbon residue after shooting. You can also expect carbon to be stuck around the front of the slide from the muzzle blast and pretty much anywhere that there happened to be excess oil.
So after using break free clp you don't need to add anything else? Seems a little too easy lol.
What really gets dirty besides the barrel?
So how often do people detail strip their weapons?
I've used that method for years, but then again my guns are reliable when completely dry.
Comes down to personal preference really, unless you're shooting black powder which is a slightly different animal. Just check to make sure whatever cleaner you use is safe for Polymer (if you ever buy a gun with polymer parts). Hoppes and some others will actually dissolve polymer, wherase break free and some others are safe for everything. There'll usually be specifics in a gun's manual.
Got any proof of that? I know glock says if its for guns, use it. I consider it an old wives tale told in hushed tones to scare the newbies away from plastic to good 'ole metal. If I'm wrong though, let me know.
Question about DA/SA...
I see that many (all?) DA/SA guns cock the hammer back when the slide is racked to load a bullet. Great, cool. But unless you lower the hammer really slowly (inherently dangerous), or have a decocker, wouldnt this make it SA pretty much all of the time?
Not all handguns are made to be carried the same way. Depending on what kind of features it has:Seems like a lot ive seen have safeties only. The CZ 75B has no decocker, just a safety (the 75BD has a decocker).
Seems like a lot ive seen have safeties only. The CZ 75B has no decocker, just a safety (the 75BD has a decocker).