How long can you get away with not cleaning an AR15?

[Vapor]

I abhor cleaning.

Obsessive cleaning of the bore will only lead to wear of the rifling, corwn, and possibly throat.

I like my crowns as pristine as possible. It's one reason I won't buy a used gun from and ocd cleaner.

 

[Podmonkey]

I abhor cleaning.

Obsessive cleaning of the bore will only lead to wear of the rifling, corwn, and possibly throat.

I like my crowns as pristine as possible. It's one reason I won't buy a used gun from and ocd cleaner.

I just punch the bore twice with a snake. Once with Hoppes and once with oil. That is why I like cold hammer forged barrels with chrome lining, very hard, very wear resistant. Muzzle device protects the crown, not that my bore squeegee things pose much of a threat.

 

[Rocpo]

S.W.A.T. MAGAZINE – FILTHY 14 : Slip 2000 Official Blog

Pat ran many thousands of rounds with Filthy 14.
RIP Pat.

 

[TMC]

Had many $2 whores?

Ummm you wouldn't happen to have some contact info ? Retirement check is still 2 weeks away.

 

[Podmonkey]

Past 6k rounds now. No cleaning, no lube.

 

[Edwardteach72]

Past 6k rounds now. No cleaning, no lube.

But wait I thought unlike the ak47 you have to clean an ar15 ever 27 rounds?

 

[Edwardteach72]

Past 6k rounds now. No cleaning, no lube.

Also I'll make a prediction 10k rounds

 

[Robin]

I don't care. I still clean mine.
Robin

 

[Podmonkey]

I don't care. I still clean mine.
Robin

Not saying you shouldn't, just proving a point.

 

[Robin]

Yeah, I get it. Really is amazing the gun will start all that and more, my confidence in it grows daily. Still cleaning though, the Army spliced it into my DNA.
Robin

 

[Podmonkey]

Yeah, I get it. Really is amazing the gun will start all that and more, my confidence in it grows daily. Still cleaning though, the Army spliced it into my DNA.
Robin

I am starting to think tge Army had us over clean our rifles. Mostly in regards to the bores. I never send a scrub brush down my barrels, just a bore snake, one run with solvent, one with oil, maybe a second pass dry if I still see crud in there. Everytging else just gets a Hoppes spray a wipe and an oil wipe. 10 minutes, that's all I spend per rifle.
I will say that with AKs, Galil included, whenever I break one down for cleaning I usually wonder why I even bothered. Even after a day long session I don't see hardly anything in the action of my ACE, that I just punch the bore as described above and maybe squirt a little oil in the action and cycle it a few times. But then, for me personally, I have had more stoppages witg the AKs I have owned than my ARs, Gailil ACE included. With the ACE as a result of its erratic ejection pattern, never had a gun with such a penchant for bouncing spent cases off stuff back into the action as that thing. Bounced a case of the mount knob of the red dot back into the action once.