AZ Shooter
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- Jun 10, 2012
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Consider me to be a new shooter. How should I clean and maintain my handgun (Beretta PX4 Storm)? What products and methods should I use?
Consider me to be a new shooter. How should I clean and maintain my handgun (Beretta PX4 Storm)? What products and methods should I use?
What is the general opinion here on bore snakes? As was pointed out earlier, of course there's more to cleaning than just running a bore snake through it, but for its intended purpose, are these generally pretty good...or worthless?
I've also seen ads for "pick sets". Now we're getting far beyond the scope of what the manual says, as well as beyond anything I know. Is this something I would ever need or want to get, and why?
Make sure when you clean the bore on your pistol - you clean from the breech to muzzle - not muzzle to breach!
What happens if you go muzzle to breach? In one of the videos linked to earlier, the guy in the video was pushing the brush through from the breach end, then pulling it back through. One of the commenters said he shouldn't do this, but the video poster replied that it didn't matter much, and that if he didn't pull the brush back through, he'd have to remove the brush from the rod since the handle of the rod wouldn't go through the barrel, and that would quickly get tedious.
So why is it advised to not go muzzle to breach, and does this include not pulling the brush back?
If you are cleaning from the breach end towards the muzzle - its ok to push the brush out of the muzzle and pull it back it. Its the cleaning rod nicking the crown you have to watch for, which can happen if your just feed a brush/cleaning rod from the muzzle end. You should let the brush go through the muzzle, and not stop part way in the bore and pull back.
What is the general opinion here on bore snakes? As was pointed out earlier, of course there's more to cleaning than just running a bore snake through it, but for its intended purpose, are these generally pretty good...or worthless?
I've also seen ads for "pick sets". Now we're getting far beyond the scope of what the manual says, as well as beyond anything I know. Is this something I would ever need or want to get, and why?