Post your least favorite gun(s) to clean

[rwsmith]

The Browning shot gun

The shot gun is the worst...

The bolt rifle is easy.

Revolvers are revolvers but cleaning the face of the .357 is a bit of a bother.

I have had to learn to perform certain functions to clean each of my semis.

The Kel Tec comes apart easy. There are a few tricks to learn to get the pin back in but the main thing is that the recoil spring ends up where it's not supposed to be when you get the gun together, but jumps down to the next notch that it can catch on to. It works, but I don't like it. It's been back to the factory to fix the spring jumping the notch and locking the gun up where only the factory can fix it. The recoil spring rod is hard to get back through the hole in the front of the slide and takes some gyrational manipulations with the spring assembly to get it seated right.. I think this gun is the trickiest to get apart and put back together. By far the least pleasant to clean.

The 5943. Getting the pin back in requires a special hold to pull back the slide a little and it can be tough getting the pin out and back in. Until I learned the tricks, I had somebody help me to take down and put back together. Once you get the hang of it, it's ok and I can do it myself.

The Shield is easy as pie, except the extra step of pushing down the disconnect in the magazine well that is just about invisible. And it has two springs which you have to disassemble in order to clean. However, it's positive, no finangling required, no tricks. Just take apart and put back together. It's the easiest to work on after learning how.

The cleaning with all of them is easy and about the same. It's the take down and assembly that's good or bad.

 

[jaymoore]

The Browning shot gun
The shot gun is the worst....

I was wondering when an A5 or similar would be mentioned. If you have to get into the action itself, those various narrow slot screws can be downright evil. Especially if it's somebody's "hairloom" that's been untouched for years.

Winchester 100 rifles (which I have) and Remington 742/7400/etc. (which I shun, personally) are also a bother to downright cuss fest to detail strip and clean.

 

[alwslate]

I don't really enjoy cleaning guns, I do it because it needs to be done.
The worst? Easy, Ruger Old Army revolver. After that most any semi
auto .22. My Ruger MK II standard model, Colt Challenger auto or
Winchester mod 74 auto. The Remington mod 1100 auto shotgun that
I used for Trap shooting part of the time is a chore after 500 shots or
so.

 

[Smoke]

Hands down M16A1

Two of the rifles I was issued were Colt's I saw no difference between them and the Harrington Richard's I was issued at Ft. Carson.

I had 2 A-1s ( full auto) and 3 A-2s ( three round burst)

Never had any reliability issues W/ any of them. Obviously the price was right and the Ammunition was free as well.

The problem was every time I got to shoot one it meant I had to lose sleep ( & maybe my day off) get up in the middle of the night, ride halfway across Germany ( or Fort Lewis, or Fort Carson or Fort Sill) usually in a snow storm or a rainstorm. get to the range at 4 am and wait till 9 for range control to get done W/ PT and open the range ( did I mention the rain and snow) Eat a nasty MRE for breakfast , a NASTIER MRE for lunch and suck it up for dinner. spend at least 12 hours on the range ( not counting drive time) to shoot 49 rounds usually in a foxhole full of mud & the ocassional rattlesnake and climb back in the Duece & a half ( did I mention the rain & snow ) to arrive at the barrack ( usually right after taps) just in time to spend 2 hours waiting for the arms room to open up ( for what that was worth ) and the rest of the night scrubbing that GD M-16. If I never shoot one again it'll be too soon.

 

[otisrush]

Browning Buckmark. Man I hate cleaning that.

 

[BruceB]

All Ruger .22 autos, and the Walther PK-380.

 

[hsmith9491]

My Flintlock Kentucky Long Rifle.

 

[Cyrano]

i won't say that it's my least favorite gun to clean, but I like to clean revolvers a LOT less than automatics. A six shooter essentially has seven barrels, couting the six chambers, all of whih have to be cleaned carefully, particularly if you're using lead bullets which give more fouling and sometimes leading. An automatic has only one barrel, and you also have to give a swipe of a cleaning patch to the breech face, interior of the slide, and the frame and slide grooves; a lot less trouble than cleaning seven barrels.

The other side of the coin is that I have to pick up my brass when shooting automatics, since I reload and would run out of carridges quickly if I didn't. Hobson's choice?

 

[LouisianaJoe]

I recently purchased a unissued Yugo SKS. This model has a built in grenade launcher. It was still packed with the original cosmoline. There are many places on this SKS that can hide cosmoline. No mater how much I clean it, I keep finding new hiding places. Firing it did help melt some. It is fun to shoot but there are a lot of places to clean.

 

[CH4]

AR-15/M16. Never cared for the nooks and crannies of the rotary bolt and its recess.

 

[wbraswell]

Almost any rifle that you can't clean from the breech.

 

[the ringo kid]

I don't really enjoy cleaning any of them but it has to be done. In spite of my dislike, I'm meticulous and have come up with efficient methods to get the job done.

Ditto here. I hate cleaning my guns but, got to be done.

 

[sooper44]

I agree

AR-15/M16. Never cared for the nooks and crannies of the rotary bolt and its recess.

I don't mind cleaning most of my firearms, but the AR-15 is at the bottom of my like-ability list.

 

[flyrobb]

Originally Posted by Rustyt1953 View Post
I love cleaning guns. It is soothing and therapeutic. I become reacquainted with each one. As I disassemble them, I marvel, all over again, at the engineering brilliance behind each part, asking myself, "how did someone think of this"?
After gently cleaning and/or lubeing each piece, inhaling the intoxicating aphrodisiac that is Hoppe's, I reassemble them while thinking, "wow, how fortunate am I that I get to shoot these again". As I tuck them back in their little beds, I look upon them and muse, "soon.....soon".

Man, you need a dog!

regards

yashua

...or a Shrink?

 

[flyrobb]

Another Vote for the Ruger Mark III

Did it once, and it hasn't been cleaned in decades. Spray carb cleaner, drain, spray break-free. Done.

If it doesn't like it, it gets sold.

YES! ^^^^^^ I cleaned mine for the first time last weekend. Took a paper clip, hammer, wood dowel, punch, 2 hours of my life and 3 UTube videos! I was feeling like a complete idiot. Don't feel so bad now.

I have a Mk.III 22/45. I agree: Different, not difficult. Putting in a Mk.II hammer bushing and yanking out that infernal magazine disconnect helped a lot.

So does RTFM.

Oh sure, now you tell me.

 

[timjake]

My least favorite is the 995TS, but it's my favorite to take to the range...so I wind up cleaning it more than any other.

Easiest is my M&P40 Pro.

 

[rwsmith]

How do I....

Yep the ruler mark3 22/45 is a giant cluster to take down and reassemble. The first time must have been pure luck, because the second time I attempted this task I was convinced the gun was possessed or broke. Finally gave up and called ruger a vary helpful associate walked me through the reassembly of this nightmare. He laughed when it was over, and said he gets calls every week helping fellas like myself. So now I do the bubba cleaning on this gun, I try to clean it without taking it apart, someday I may get the nerve to attempt to take it apart again.

I know the feeling. I have several revolvers, pistols, rifles and shotguns and if i don't shoot and clean one for a long time I forget. Had a dickens of a time getting a bolt out of a Savage rifle.

 

[Bozz10mm]

It's always a challenge getting the bolt back in my Mini-14 and 10/22. My Ruger Mark I is a bugger to reassemble. Why are Ruger semi autos always the hardest to break down and put back together.

AR-15s are easy to break down and reassemble....just tedious to clean. The Mossberg 500 series shotguns are not intuitive to field strip and reassemble either.

 

[sandmansans]

It's always a challenge getting the bolt back in my Mini-14 and 10/22. My Ruger Mark I is a bugger to reassemble. Why are Ruger semi autos always the hardest to break down and put back together.

AR-15s are easy to break down and reassemble....just tedious to clean. The Mossberg 500 series shotguns are not intuitive to field strip and reassemble either.

Yea I hate how that wax-lead gunk gets pasted into every nook and cranny.

 

[walnutred]

M1 Garand, 8 ea. Not just any Garands but the 8 owned by my American Legion Post. A steady diet of blanks cruds those puppys like nobodys business. Getting those gas cylinder lock screws off can be a challenge.