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Field Strip and Cleaning can be Therapeutic

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gfan1984

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A lot of people I have talked to have said that it is important to field strip and clean your firearm regularly. I have done it after every range visit, and I honestly love doing it. I sit down somewhere quiet, and take apart my pistols and clean them. I find it relaxing, and I also get to admire the human spirit of mechanics/mechanical progress. My Springfield 1911 Mil-Spec is updated from the original John Moses Browning 1911, but the overall design lives on through that, over 114 years. My Taurus TH9C is almost the opposite, lose-fitting, lightweight, small, and with a polymer frame it shows how far we have gone through full steel pistols, to the light materials that still perform well. I feel very close to/have respect for the people who have made these firearms and the craftsmen and machine workers who still assemble these marvels of human ingenuity.

I ask the forum here, if anyone else feels the same as I do.
 
gfan1984 said:
A lot of people I have talked to have said that it is important to field strip and clean your firearm regularly. I have done it after every range visit, and I honestly love doing it. I sit down somewhere quiet, and take apart my pistols and clean them. I find it relaxing, and I also get to admire the human spirit of mechanics/mechanical progress. My Springfield 1911 Mil-Spec is updated from the original John Moses Browning 1911, but the overall design lives on through that, over 114 years. My Taurus TH9C is almost the opposite, lose-fitting, lightweight, small, and with a polymer frame it shows how far we have gone through full steel pistols, to the light materials that still perform well. I feel very close to/have respect for the people who have made these firearms and the craftsmen and machine workers who still assemble these marvels of human ingenuity.

I ask the forum here, if anyone else feels the same as I do.
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Yes I do. It is therapy. And habit. The old man drummed it into my head from a small boy on. You shoot it, you clean it.
 
SL66 said:
I too find it therapeutic, whether I am stripping and cleaning a $500.00 weapon or a $5000.00 weapon the routine is the same. The round does not know from where it was fired, it only wants to do one job, neutralize the threat.
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Exactly right, as long as either one of the firearms have the reliability and accuracy are there, the price is more personal preference. I also like to compare and contrast how different some firearms are, but also how similar the mechanics work as well.
 
Therapy? No, not really IMO. I don't consider a chore, as some obviously report, so that's a positive note. Additionally, I've found through the years that repetition buys ease.
For proper maintenance and operation, scheduled strip and clean is simply a "have-to."
 
I won't say it's therapy, but more of time away, for myself or somewhat relaxing. Reloading is more therapeutic to me as it's more rythmatic flow. Cleaning firearms when I have say 4 to 10 depending if they're handguns ir AR's I'll fully disassemble them in their own spot then clean all barrels then move on to next part. Gives time for parts to air dry before wiping and lubing before reassembly.
 
I don't hate doing it, but I don't look forward to doing it also. If you don't make yourself dinner, you starve. If you don't wash your clothes, you wind up putting back on your old pooped stained underwear. You don't change the oil on your vehicle, you wind up broke down on the side of the road with a ruined engine. You do what needs to be done, whether you like it or not. Or suffer the consequences of not doing what is needed.
 
I do enjoy it, not the set up before or the clean up after, but the take downs and the scraping and rubbing and wiping down puts me in a zone and before I realize it, a couple of hours have flown by. Sometimes I will take down guns I haven’t shot in a while just because I’m on a roll. It puts me in a peaceful mood.
 
OldGrunt said:
I don't hate doing it, but I don't look forward to doing it also. If you don't make yourself dinner, you starve. If you don't wash your clothes, you wind up putting back on your old pooped stained underwear. You don't change the oil on your vehicle, you wind up broke down on the side of the road with a ruined engine. You do what needs to be done, whether you like it or not. Or suffer the consequences of not doing what is needed.
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T.M.I. Just sayin.....
 
It is both a task and a great feeling of satisfaction in completing the task. I'm not meticulous about cleaning after every range visit.

Currently I get to work remote 2 days a week. On Thursday this week, between appointments and emails, I cleaned this one with a great sense of satisfaction and appreciation.

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I clean once a month.
The amount of rounds, number of firearms and sessions involved, I’d be cleaning non stop.
A firearm not in the elements will be fine for awhile if shooting indoor.
I enjoy cleaning, but after every range day is a bit much
 
Side note..
I went 5000+ rounds on this new ‘91 Sig p228 before cleaning when I first got it to see how great sigs were over my same purchase BHP. Still going strong decades later

Guns dont need cleaning non stop, unless you are OCD or out in the elements
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