Advice on cleaning

[tconroy]

Is it advisable to disassemble the slide and clean and lube everything or just clean the barrel after a hundred rounds or so??? I strip it and clean it every time but is that an overkill??? Do you guys just clean the barrell and then strip after a few hundred rounds??? Thank in advance for your advice

[Bawanna]

I take the slide off and clean it and the frame and the barrel if thats what you mean. I DO NOT detail strip the slide generally. I have once just to inspect and see how it looked. I just use the Jocko clean out hole on occasion and dont do that every time.

[tconroy]

I take the slide off and clean it and the frame and the barrel if thats what you mean. I DO NOT detail strip the slide generally. I have once just to inspect and see how it looked. I just use the Jocko clean out hole on occasion and dont do that every time.

Yep thats what I meant Bawanna.Thanks buddy. I just figured if ya take the slide off you might as well take the barrel out and clean it that way.Its easier than trying to run the bore snake thru the extractor opening.

[jocko]

what Bawanna says is the easiest way to keep that area clean withno hassle. once you ge tuse dto doingit, it takes about `15 secnds to spray clean that striker channel using that little clean out hole. I do it everytme I give my gun a cleaning, maybe not necessary but not like it takes longer to really do it.

If you reread that PROPPER PREPPING OF YOUR KAHR. It gives some really nice tips on how to use that little clean out hole to..

U can't beat those bore snakes though. I use it alot when firing my glock as I don't clean it as often asmy PM9 as it is my range gun, so it gets over looked in some areas but he bore snake is for me a god send. I wish I would have invented it..

[tconroy]

what Bawanna says is the easiest way to keep that area clean withno hassle. once you ge tuse dto doingit, it takes about `15 secnds to spray clean that striker channel using that little clean out hole. I do it everytme I give my gun a cleaning, maybe not necessary but not like it takes longer to really do it.

If you reread that PROPPER PREPPING OF YOUR KAHR. It gives some really nice tips on how to use that little clean out hole to..

U can't beat those bore snakes though. I use it alot when firing my glock as I don't clean it as often asmy PM9 as it is my range gun, so it gets over looked in some areas but he bore snake is for me a god send. I wish I would have invented it..

Where is this hole located. I have probably done it but did not know it if that makes sense.

[tconroy]

Ah HA!!! I found the hole you talk about. It is in#9 on the oil diagram that I downloaded. Thanks again. And yes i have used it. I follow the diagram religiously.

[Bawanna]

Dang you are wicked fast. I was just gonna download that chart and point out the lower arm of #9 there.
Remind me not to quick draw with you................

[jocko]

ur

Ah HA!!! I found the hole you talk about. It is in#9 on the oil diagram that I downloaded. Thanks again. And yes i have used it. I follow the diagram religiously.

not one of those muslim extremests are you that want to stuff explosive sh-t in any holes they can find

I have always love a "clean" hole..

[tconroy]

A clean hole is a happy hole. Man I just bought the last 2 boxes of 9mm at wally world. I hope federal are good. Never shot them.

[jocko]

they are good ammo . Our wal mart here NEVER has anything in 9mm but 100 pak of WWB for $23.00, Never federal ammo, and in the last two years, not one box of 380.

My wife works there and watches that area every day to see if anything comes in priced right in the ammo line.

[tconroy]

They were 10.42 a box of 50 so I bought them. Cabelas has some 9's for 10.49 on sale and Bass pro alway has tons of 9 in Remington for 14.29 and WWB for 26 per 100 . I bought the winchester the other day and was surpised that they were loose packed like a brick of 22's. I was expecting nice plastic containers with them all in a row like other ammo is packaged.

[jocko]

yes the 100 pak of wwb fmj is loose packed..

[deadhead1971]

yes. I clean it every time after shooting...even the insides of the magazines. The top followers get dirty as well as the inside springs.

[MW surveyor]

I clean any gun that gets shot. Maybe not right away but at least by the next day. Mags get cleaned too. When you shoot reloads, things get somewhat dirty.

If you don't have a mag brush, get one! They are also good for cleaning the mag well up into the top of the frame.

[jocko]

for sure if your gonna carry it, keep it clean, keep it lubed, keep it loaded.

cleaning besides "cleanng" also lets u inside thegun more often to, where one can see if something is carcked, broken, worn etc I never had an issue with my PM9 but upon cleaning I found twice two cracked makgazine followers, that had I not taken down the magazine to clean and inspect , I would not have see it until it broke when actually needed.

Preventive maintenance is a good thing. airlines do it all the time..