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Originally Posted by stickbug1
All you current and ex military service men and women???? how many times did you clean your firearms? and what did our favorite uncle teach you about proper firearm care intervals?
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- Cleaned spotless after every use. Weapons never went into the arms room dirty, especially an M16/M4, which is notoriously failure prone without proper cleaning (not a result of a dirty bore, but a dirty gas system).
- My favorite uncle...pretty much the same thing. Clean it after you use it and don't put it away dirty.
The main harm of over cleaning a barrel on any rifle would be the risk of damaging the barrel crown, which would have an adverse effect on accuracy. The risk of under cleaning would be corrosion or pitting of the bore. How long does it take to corrode or get pits in your bore?...who knows, but I'm not going to test it out on my guns.
I've seen a fair number of used guns at gun shops with pitted bores and I can only assume it was from under cleaning...