Cleaning and lubing on the range

[depthcharge]

Use to clean after range trips. 200 to 400 rounds then clean bcg and chamber. Now, I clean after 2 to 3 range trips. From what Ive read dont mess with your barrel unless its really needed and to clean one way. Guy on sniper 101 brushing away back and forth in precision barrel lol. So everybody has diff ways. I have a sig522 that i have to really clean after 200 to 300 rounds due to ft pop, chalky junk on bolt. 22lr really is a b to clean. I use clp to clean off junks, fireclean for lubing pistols and BCG.

[alexisjohnson]

Rimfire: Shoot until it starts jamming...then clean

Ar: You have to differentiate between lubing and cleaning. If you're not doing anything precision wise, then what you should do is relube after every range trip. Cleaning wise i would say let it go to 500 or so before it needs a basic cleaning.

After shooting around 100-150 rounds through the AR...it definitely dries up a bit on some of the contact points and it needs to be relubed but its not anywhere near needing to be cleaned. Relubing takes something like 1 minute tops.

[Devilmonkey89]

Currently, i'm shooting until my stuff fails! Currently i'm at 1,500+ of 5.56 and my 9mm AR is at 1,000ish and all i do is add lube. Until it fails, i'll keep adding lube.

[Squirly]

Smell of CLP is wonderful!!! My guns get cleaned and oiled if I'm not planning on shooting for a while. But no rush.

[Jimi Jah]

I've got mine to work all day long, even the .22LR conversion bolts. The bolt face gets some burned powder but that's it. Careful polishing and that Slip 2000 EWL 30 wt. keeps them all running without any issues as it won't burn off or evaporate away.

I used to have all sorts of sticky problems with several guns. Those are all long gone now.

[Germ1]

There's no reason to clean a gun after only a couple hundred rounds fired. There's also no reason to try and clean a gun at the range. If you're trying to clean a gun at the range then you're unorganized and unprepared and probably shouldn't have guns to begin with. I usually go 2-3 range sessions before I clean, and I shoot 500 rds each time usually. The only exception being is if I know I'm not going to be shooting for awhile, then I'll just clean my pistol before I put it away.

Also, I don't put any oil inside the barrel.. It's not necessary, I have over 23,000 rounds fired and I never put oil on the inside of my barrel.

I also use a mixture of 10-30 full synthetic motor oil and ATF in my gun, so I don't need to "relube" like the rest of these guys in this thread who use snake oils. My oil stays in my gun and rarely burns off. After 1500 rounds fired it starts to get dry just because of how dirty it is.