Warranty - CLEAN & LUBRICATE YOUR GUN!

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Good morning everyone.

As many people know, we handle the warranty for many firearms companies in Canada. Most delays are from us waiting for parts from the various manufactures. We stock 1000's of firearms parts but sometimes they need to be sourced from the manufacture which can take a while. We don't like waits either.

Now for the real reason for the post. Please clean and lubricate your firearm. You have no idea how many people send in firearms that have never been cleaned or lubricated. With the increase of 22LR semi auto's on the market this is even more so important....22's get dirty really fast as they have a blow back action. This means you need to clean them more. You also need to lubricate them. Use a good gun oil, don't use motor oil. You might think I am joking but we see guns coming in all the time with thick motor oil in the action....or dry as a bone and never lubricated.

If you send in your firearm for warranty work and we find that the issue is caused by a lack of general maintenance, that isn't warranty and you will be billed. I don't want to sound harsh but we're getting a lot of 22's in that are just dirty. I'm sure it is because there are a lot of new 22 shooters out there who were used to AR15's and the like that would eat anything, dirty or not.
 
But I used to be a super sniper with Meal Team 6. I lube my tactical self defense 22 with the olive oil from moms pantry and all ammo is pretty much the same quality so that can’t be my problem. While you’re trying to figure out why my discount rack Turkish rifle misfires after 2500 rounds of bulk ammo, can you look into why it’s so inaccurate? I bought a new Leupold tactical scope for 23.99 on Amazon and it won’t hold zero so I’m pretty sure it’s your fault.
 
Denver Steve said:
I religiously clean everything except for my shotgun...
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I don't clean 22 barrel very often, especially bolt actions. I do clean 10/22 every 500ish rounds. I

It is super dirty. Even more so if you are shooting aquila, or rem garbage
 
A good friend of mine, who sadly passed a few years back, did some gunsmithing on the side - his main jam was making and refinishing stocks, and he was a master craftsman at that (Probably a couple here would know the name Stan Orr, I bet).

Anyway, he would get "broken" automatics in all the time from hunters - friends of friends and such.

If I was over visiting he'd show me some of these guns and say something like "Look at this! It's a Shame and Disgrace! You could grow TURNIPS in there, there's so much Dirt!"

Apparently hunters are the absolute worst for not maintaining their guns.

But as for lubing a .22 auto loader. A few drops of oil on the recoil guide rod is generally all that's needed. Start slopping that stuff into the receiver on whatever else slides just accumulates crap even faster.

I can get a few thousand rounds out of mine, easily.

And those rimfires generally fail when too much compacted crud builds up on the bolt and breech faces - you stop getting good hard firing pin strikes
 
There has been no shortage of new posters on here buying a semi whatever, taking it out of the box and go shooting without a tear down and clean, or even a look down the bore lol.
I remember one fellow blew his Nork M4 clone up first shot, the Nork factory packed oiled patches in the muzzle and chamber I guess to prevent rust lol.
First thing with new guns, strip them right down so you know how it works and remove all packing oil/grease, lube properly, then go shooting.
 
I haven't bought any of the new Turkish 22s on the market, but it seems like some of them have very complicated disassembly. I'm not giving people a pass for not cleaning their guns, but if maintenance is super complicated, I can understand why new shooters would be hesitant.
 
Brendon292 said:
I haven't bought any of the new Turkish 22s on the market, but it seems like some of them have very complicated disassembly. I'm not giving people a pass for not cleaning their guns, but if maintenance is super complicated, I can understand why new shooters would be hesitant.
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The Adler is like a 10/22 clone sort of, punch 3 pins out and it's field stripped.
The TM22 take the top rail off which is a few Allen head bolts, it's field stripped.
Those 2 anyway are not complicated to disassemble and clean.
 
tactical870 said:
But I used to be a super sniper with Meal Team 6. I lube my tactical self defense 22 with the olive oil from moms pantry and all ammo is pretty much the same quality so that can’t be my problem. While you’re trying to figure out why my discount rack Turkish rifle misfires after 2500 rounds of bulk ammo, can you look into why it’s so inaccurate? I bought a new Leupold tactical scope for 23.99 on Amazon and it won’t hold zero so I’m pretty sure it’s your fault.
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Hey as a door gunner on the official meal them six space shuttle. I would have you know that I am now using spray Avocado oil my mom got from Costco the other day. And I am running a Ali-Express Eotech all day long with only a few drops of dollar store superglue when the glass comes loose.

In other news the manual for the SCSA Taipan claims it can go 7000 rounds without cleaning or lube and takes four different sizes of hex driver to disassemble I have only got 6800 rounds more to go before the Crisco and dollarama screw driver set will get put to the test.

Now if you don't mind me I am getting back to my Lays.
 
I believe it was Ed Brown in his 1911 manual that said, “ would you run your car without any oil in it, then why would you think of running your gun without oil “ . My Les Baer 1911 has over 80,000 rounds through it with never a malfunction of any kind and I anyways keep, it wet with FP -10 and it is still as tight as a bank vault .
 
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