Does anyone like cleaning multiple guns?

[ToeTag]

I cant believe that someone hasn't come up with an easy way to clean guns...I hate it.. I spend more time cleaning than shooting.



HMMMMM....Maybe some photos soon 

[curry1]

This is why I only shoot AT-4s that way no cleaning involved.

[ToeTag]

OK, so let me pose a question.  I spent all day prototyping an idea that I have had for about a week.  It works.  If you could shoot all day, come home drop your gun in a stand and have you're gun cleaned automatically would you buy one of these?  If so what would you want to pay for it?  Cheap market research here.

No dirty hands or clothes.
No messing with solvents.
Just done in about 15 minutes.
Portable for use at the range.

TOE

[Seanaldinho]

Personally no. But as I said I dont like anyone else cleaning my guns. I'm the one behind the sights and I dont want the guy in front of my sights to still be there when I pull the trigger because the gun wasnt maintained properly. (This is all hypothetical. And my personal crazy opinion.)

[Zodiac]

OK, so let me pose a question.  I spent all day prototyping an idea that I have had for about a week.  It works.  If you could shoot all day, come home drop your gun in a stand and have you're gun cleaned automatically would you buy one of these?  If so what would you want to pay for it?  Cheap market research here.

No dirty hands or clothes.
No messing with solvents.
Just done in about 15 minutes.
Portable for use at the range.

TOE

Not sure how much I would be willing to spend on it, but probably would use one. (Would still go over them myself afterwards though, I'm picky about the cleaning that way  )

I love cleaning my guns. I routinely clean them even if they haven't been shot. Every couple weeks I clean two or three, it keeps them clean and rust free.

I usually throw in a movie or turn on some good tunes.

^This

[mtnman]

Multiple guns?

Working on a Boy Scout camp allows me to enjoy that task regularly.  25 or so .22's, a dozen shotguns, and a handful of muzzle loaders.

It's a real treat cleaning the ML's each week in the summer after the scout's spend an evening firing them.

It sure makes it seem easy when all I have to clean are my own personal firearms, seldom more then 3 at a time.

[MarineUS]

It never takes me a long time to clean my weapon, also; if you're going to be shooting again in the near future, you don't want it "out of the box" clean. It'll jack up your accuracy.

Slow is smooth and smooth is fast. Shouldn't take over an hour (if that) to clean a single rifle.

[dunnrite]

May I suggest a different hobby?

If you don't want to clean your guns, don't shoot them.  If you don't shoot them.......

Basically, I was taught from very early on that if you fire your weapon, clean it (I learned how to shoot on a 53 hawken before I got my first 22 when I was 5).  For those who say that if it fires and is accurate, leave it alone, good luck if you ever actually NEED it.

I am a meat eating son of a semp , but more toothpicks go into cleaning my firearms than cleaning my teeth.  As well as a tonyjoey -load of q-tips.

I enjoy cleaning my firearms.  I know they ALL function, every time.

[guncrasher]

or a more logical suggestion.  only shoot as many guns as you want to clean  .


semp

[ToeTag]

wow....some replies make no sense at all...but thanks for the honest answers.  I had no idea that folks prefer to go the long route when cleaning.  Maybe a form of therapy on a Sunday....   This would mainly just be a bore cleaner.  It would not clean the action on semi autos.

I've also heard a lot of conflicting info about the proper way to clean the gun.  IE get it totally clean vs. leave a little behind. 

As to cleaning a gun in an hour I have never gotten this result.  My cleaner recommends a 30 minute soak.  With ten passes to get it done that's 5 hours between squirts.

What cleaner can you use to get it clean in an hour?  Maybe I'm getting the wrong stuff.

TOE

[Widewing]

or a more logical suggestion.  only shoot as many guns as you want to clean  .


semp

LOl Truth... That's the down side of bringing 6 or more weapons to the range... 3 hours of cleaning them followed by smelling the solvent for several hours more.

[MarineUS]

wow....some replies make no sense at all...but thanks for the honest answers.  I had no idea that folks prefer to go the long route when cleaning.  Maybe a form of therapy on a Sunday....   This would mainly just be a bore cleaner.  It would not clean the action on semi autos.

I've also heard a lot of conflicting info about the proper way to clean the gun.  IE get it totally clean vs. leave a little behind. 

As to cleaning a gun in an hour I have never gotten this result.  My cleaner recommends a 30 minute soak.  With ten passes to get it done that's 5 hours between squirts.

What cleaner can you use to get it clean in an hour?  Maybe I'm getting the wrong stuff.

TOE

Well, we tested the "leave some behind" theory and it works pretty solid. Every rifle (we used twenty M16A2 service rifles all together for the test. 10 fully clean, 10 "left behind") we "factory cleaned", was more inaccurate (especially over longer distances).