New to cleaning .22 semi auto rifles

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Picked up a Mossberg 715t .22 semi auto tactical plinkster a few days ago, now comes the initial cleaning of a new rifle. But i have a few questions that may seem pretty noobish about gun cleaning, but hey, im new to rifles.

Took a while to find a decent video on how to break it down and put it back together. But i have that knowledge now so there will be no questions on those topics. When i did break it down the first time, my hands looked like i worked on an oil rig all day. Blobs of grease everywhere. I assume that this is packing grease and needs to be cleaned? The other questions are as follows.

Just wondering if The items i have for cleaning my glock will work for the rifle.
-outers gun oil
-g96 bore solvent

The instructions are kinda vague to my noobish mind, but i think it mentions to run a patch through the bore lightly coated in oil after cleaning? I thought that was a no no with guns.

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Remington 597 - when I stopped cleaning it, it started working right. Not sure I recommend this route, but I was ready to sell it for $150, couldn't, and after the abuse started it started working great. Kind of reminds me of a girl in high school I knew.
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timandkimandshea said:
Remington 597 - when I stopped cleaning it, it started working right. Not sure I recommend this route, but I was ready to sell it for $150, couldn't, and after the abuse started it started working great. Kind of reminds me of a girl in high school I knew.
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so the moral of the story is abuse it... or her, and it will start working...

I see repercussions with both scenarios.
 
22LR Never ever clean it. MIne is a Marlin 39A lever gun. Now an auto may be a different story. U may have to clean the action so it will continue to cycle. As for the bore U might want to run some WipeOut through it once in a while. The 22 is the only gun I very rarely clean, and I am a fanatic about cleaning my firearms, I clean my center fire even if I have only put one round through it on the hunt. Soon as I get home I clean the weapon. I have seen 22 rifles that have had 500,000 rounds through em and were never cleaned. They still shot accurate. These rifles were anshutes target rifles used by the boy scouts on a small bore target range. Clean it if U want to cant hurt anything but as far as I am concerned it is a waste of time, other than keeping the action clean on an autofeeder.
 
if you are doing competition benchrest shooting you will generally clean for consistency not for reliability or anything like that. given that its semi auto i doubt that is the case. basically when it stops working clean it. those things last forever.
 
Thats what ive been hearing all round. Clean the action when needed and let the barrel go until it really needs it. Thanks guys
 
My 715 goes a long time before cleaning - mostly because you need a cordless drill with a fully charged battery to deal with all the screws...
 
Not cleaning often may hold true for some .22's, but my 490 is very fussy about being clean, if there is any dirt in the action you can't get the bolt to stay open at all. A quick scrub, and it works smooth as silk.
 
"...items I have for cleaning my..." That'll work just fine. No oil in the barrel for shooting though.
"...Not cleaning often may hold true for some .22's, but..." Exactly. Not every .22 is the same. Some do work just fine without regular cleaning, while others stop working altogether. A great deal depends on the ammo though. Semi's tend to need cleaning more often than bolt actions due to the innards needing it more.
 
Like Sunray said, clean it if it starts giving you problems, and i find it easy to get a boresnake and just run it through the barrel every few months just for the hell of it, then you only need to completely disassemble it every once in a while instead of every time you clean it.

I generally clean my guns either A, when they give me problems, B, any time i've been out and they got realy wet/dirty, C, maybe once a year, sometimes every two years, just to say i did it.

As for products to use, any solvent/oil will work. I like the G96 that has the oil and solvent mixed together because i'm lazy, it's easier to spray instead of use an open bottle and it smells nicer than most solvents.
 
You can get cleaning kits for 10/22 that have a bore guide to protect the crown and a little thing to catch patches.
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I have found this setup from OTIS to be very useful, especially for semi auto .22 http://www.otistec.com/pc_product_detail.asp?key=A143AFCDD3F7420D971E1FCE78ACEFD7
This does not require the rifle to be disassembled and allows it to be cleaned from the breach rather than the muzzle. Their website has how-to videos. It is a handy kit to take on hunting/range trips as well.

The final lightly oiled patch is to prevent rust/corrosion during storage.
 
dand883 said:
Like Sunray said, clean it if it starts giving you problems, and i find it easy to get a boresnake and just run it through the barrel every few months just for the hell of it, then you only need to completely disassemble it every once in a while instead of every time you clean it.

I generally clean my guns either A, when they give me problems, B, any time i've been out and they got realy wet/dirty, C, maybe once a year, sometimes every two years, just to say i did it.

As for products to use, any solvent/oil will work. I like the G96 that has the oil and solvent mixed together because i'm lazy, it's easier to spray instead of use an open bottle and it smells nicer than most solvents.
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That's what I do as well.. no need to over do it
 
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