Thread: In-between barrel cleaning

I'm wondering if there is a correlation between how frequently people clean their rifles, and how long they keep them...some people seem to have a very high turnover rate, while I have never sold a rifle.
Are the people who rarely clean the barrel the same people who flick their rifles on after only a few months or years? And are others like me, who clean (almost) religiously have had those rifles for 32 years, 26 years and 24 years? I'm not suggesting people are selling problems, more that if you only have the rifle a short time you are less likely to see any problem develop, and if you know you are going to have it for decades you tend to look after it better (argueably)?

Originally Posted by Cigar

I'm wondering if there is a correlation between how frequently people clean their rifles, and how long they keep them...some people seem to have a very high turnover rate, while I have never sold a rifle.
Are the people who rarely clean the barrel the same people who flick their rifles on after only a few months or years? And are others like me, who clean (almost) religiously have had those rifles for 32 years, 26 years and 24 years? I'm not suggesting people are selling problems, more that if you only have the rifle a short time you are less likely to see any problem develop, and if you know you are going to have it for decades you tend to look after it better (argueably)?

I dont turn over rifles very often, I went from cleaning everything every time to cleaning when needed for s/s when I worked out I was causing more issues than I was solving by cleaning.