Is this guy crazy, or is he making a lot of sense? Cleaning a 715T

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I watched his video some time ago, and kept the areas he mentioned clean. I put about 3000 rounds through it during that time. Wondering whether or not I should strip this thing down and give it a good one over, or if this guy is right, and only needs cleaning in the accessible areas. Obviously I will be cleaning it from top to bottom after a number of rounds go through it, but this guy seems to be contrary to most videos/messages I've seen online about when to clean this thing.

 
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I had both versions and would go about 1k rounds and then clean.
The narrel wasnt the issue. It was the receiver and barrel face that was dirty. It wouldnt close thus adding to extration and firing issues.
 
From looking at disassembly videos it really doesn't look like something you would want to completely strip without buggering up the screw threads.
Looks like brake cleaner could be your friend.
 
"everything else will take care of its self" .... The balls on this guy....

Don't buy a barrel/action surrounded by cheap plastic held together with dollar store screws to have a tacticool rifle...
 
growing up on a farm i use to go shoot gophers pretty much every day.
my old 10/22 never got cleaned.
most i would ever do for it if it started to gum up is i would lock back the bolt and spray WD40 into it until it ran clear.
good to go!

did the gun run, you bet ya.
did it run for years, sure did.
was it reliable, nope.

im a little better with my cleaning regiment now.
 
wayupnorth said:
growing up on a farm i use to go shoot gophers pretty much every day.
my old 10/22 never got cleaned.
most i would ever do for it if it started to gum up is i would lock back the bolt and spray WD40 into it until it ran clear.
good to go!

did the gun run, you bet ya.
did it run for years, sure did.
was it reliable, nope.

im a little better with my cleaning regiment now.
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LOL.... I have a 10/22 takedown SS that was involved in a no cleaning at all experiment... bought it almost a year ago last november and had not cleaned it once till December 2015.... I did install a Volquartsen extractor on day one but had done nothing else.... it worked flawlessly with several several thousand rounds through it... accuracy was okay as it could hit a pigeon at 50 yards still but it got so bad that the head of the bolt was so carboned up that the gun just stopped working and couldn't fire off a round.... I was impressed. Put the bolt and receiver in the sonic cleaner over night and cleaned the barrel till the patches were pulled through white and decided that I'd put a BX trigger in it, refaced the rear angle of the bolt to hammer interference section of the bolt, polished the bolt and receiver to a mirror finish with jewelers rouge and am starting the torture test all over again but I'm keeping a record of number of shots fired and all malfunctions in a little diary in its bug out bag this time.... I'm hoping to get another year out of it before it needs to be cleaned again....
 
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"thats all you need, everything els will take care of itself"

Sounds like Liberal logic; "budget will balance itself"

Guess the rifle will clean itself…
 
My pal who is a real accuracy nut claims you should never clean the barrel of a .22LR. He's had many .22 rifles and have all been very accurate with the right ammo. He claims that going to the range with a few boxes of different .22s trying to figure out which is the most accurate is the wrong way to do it. He says that you have to fire at least 50 rounds of one type of ammo to kind of tune the barrel to that bullet. Maybe more. Then if that type/manufacturer of bullet isn't doing close to 1/2 inch at 50. Try another brand ,firing at least 50 to retune the barrel to that new round. Unfortunately now a days manufacturers are not always bringing out the same ammo as last year even though the same name is on the box. Bulk ammo doesn't work well cause powder charges vary so much. Ok for just popping tin cans but not for real accuracy. Generally stuff like CCI Mini Mags or Winchester Power Points are better. Of course a proper rifle is in order for this not one like in the video or a Henry Survival Rifle. Hey, don't shoot the messenger. Just passing along some good info.
 
I don't see what the problem is with stripping the 715. I have owned two, would strip down once or twice a year and never a stripped screw in the plastic. I strippe d and cleaned one a week or so back for sale with no issues. Just have to remember not to go Heman on them as you are threading into plastic. Although I have a brother that can strip or break any screw or bolt he touches but he is rough with everything so it is expected. It ain't metal so don't treat it as such.
 
I used to clean my 715 religiously after range time and had tons of FTE, I tried not cleaning it and it somehow started working way better after a few thousand rounds it only fails to extract once out of every hundred rounds or so.
 
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