Never clean your 22lr pistol, what?

[Fishslayer]

Hose out the gunk, re-lube and carry on.

Yup... with an occasional real cleaning.

[p7m8jg]

My Colt Ace .22 Conversion Kit will stop working after so many .22 rounds pound burnt powder etc in between the floating piston & the barrel.

But I admit I shot it until it happened......

[shawnofthedead]

I clean after every range trip. I keep reading "run them till they malfunction". Last thing I want to do is get to the range and have malfunctions because I didn't take the time to clean and inspect my guns...no matter what caliber or purpose of the gun.

[al123]

I clean after every range trip (also), but simply don't overdo it. It doesn't have to be spotless.

Minimal use with the brush scrubbing, being especially gentle on the barrel and particularly the crown. I use primarily a patch worm and let it soak with a solvent (Hoppe's Elite). After the gunk is removed, it's followed by a light coat of oil.

[navydad2010]

I clean after every range trip. I keep reading "run them till they malfunction". Last thing I want to do is get to the range and have malfunctions because I didn't take the time to clean and inspect my guns...no matter what caliber or purpose of the gun.

^^^Truth^^^

There is a couple in my club who ALWAYS have to alibi during the shoot, they also brag
About never cleaning their guns or magazines

[volosong]

I don't necessarily field strip and clean my guns after every range session, but will certainly do so before I take them out again. If not, they stay home that trip.

The greatest advantage of cleaning the Mk II often is that 'practice makes perfect' when it comes to putting it back together again. Thank goodness for the YouTube videos that show the secret for getting them back in proper operating condition.

[softmentor]

I have a Neos that is a favorite cheep plinker. It needs to be cleaned about every 500 rounds or it will start having cycle problems. Probably really more like 800 to 1000 before I get around to it but every so often. But if I go much past 1,000 I can start having cycle problems. I do shoot cheep stuff with the Neos
I have a bolt action single shot that I have not shot enough rounds to need cleaning. One shot at a time / reload is slow going
Trailside don't own any more but I probably cleaned them every 5,000 rounds. Never had a problem nor did accuracy ever suffer. I shot mostly greentag or some Norma in the Trailside.
Other 22's I don't shoot regularly enough to really need to clean them that often. Every once in a great while I pull everything out of the safe and have a cleaning day and everything gets a touch, even if its just a very light oil with a very barely lightly oiled cloth to keep the rust protection looking good and raise the shine.
I have a couple of never fired safe queens... never clean them lol

[madjack956]

I've got a lot of firearms. I take several to the range when I shoot.

I never know if I'm going to shoot those particular firearms again next week or next year, ( it has gone both ways) so I clean them after the range trip.

Furthermore, I actually enjoy cleaning my firearms, inspecting them, oiling them and knowing they are tip-top the next time I reach into the safe.

[JohnCCW]

I have a few .22 rifles I never clean. Don't shoot them that much either.

[glockman19]

With rimfires I pull a bore snake through a couple of times, followed by a cotton patch in Hopps #9, run another clean patch to wipe out, then one more with oil. And that's only if they're really dirty, otherwise I just pull the bore snake through a couple times followed by an oil patch to coat.

After 10,000+ rounds out of my Ruger MKIII Hunter I have never disassembled it...and it's shiny clean.