Cleaning Your Gun

Cleaning Your Gun

Tommy Allen
Tommy Allen
Over the decades there has been a lot of conversation over the camp fire about cleaning your riffle and how often should you clean your riffle. I found an article from field and stream about a highly skilled rifleman that doesn't clean his match riffle until it has 300 to 400 rounds through it. This brought up some question I had as when should you clean your rifle, how often, and does it make a difference in accuracy? So I thought I should call up a veteran and trained sniper Todd Smith. My background is 8 years active duty, serving in the 1st gulf war and 5 sniper schools. As far as cleaning my weapon I always clean them after I use them. I want to make sure and get stuff out of them. I'm not real rough on them and don't use a copper brush. My big thing as a sniper is I always fallow the path of the bullet from back to front and I don't ever pull my rod back through the barrel. That's just my personal deal. Usually I use a multi cleaner like a CLP or something that cleans it, penetrates the mettle and lubricates. Too much oil is a problem because it attracts stuff and not enough is a problem because it lets things get into the metal. Then you're worried about water, rust and things like that. Every gun rusts even a new gun out of the box will have rust on it if you take a clean white paper towel. Just make sure you keep everything off it that wasn't on it before.
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