your new gun

[HavokCycle]

do you have a ritual/habit when you buy a new gun?

do you immediately take i home and fiddle with it?
take it apart, etc.

if i had land outside my door the first thing id do is shoot it out of the box. unfortunately my land is hours away.

so the first thing i do, i take my gun home, and take it apart. i coat every surface in froglube, and shove it in my oven. whether that does anything for it or not but its what i do.

whats your new-gun ritual?

 

[jooky52198]

Explain, for those of us not all that familiar with guns....yet....why the oven???

 

[jooky52198]

I like to take it home and immediately take it apart and put it together a few times

 

[Shoots4Fun]

I like to take it home and immediately take it apart and put it together a few times

This for me too...

 

[Polished515]

Take it home, put bullets in it, shoot it.

 

[Khazik]

Ya i'm curious, why the oven? We talking about baking in the lube like seasoning an iron skillet? Good idea but... would it work?
*edit* I also immediately take it home, disassemble, clean (if used which I just got a new-and my first-rifle), really get to know it. Otherwise it feels foreign to me and I'm not really comfortable shooting or using something not familiar to me, especially a firearm. It's more of a comfort thing and knowing where any problems may-may not exist when shooting.

 

[HavokCycle]

kinda like seasoning yes. clean off the shipping grease and/or csosmoline, as the case may be.
my theory is, open the pores of the metal and allow the CLP to penetrate, and soak into the metal. ive heard it from some rep before.
hearsay that, i know, but ive not had my guns FTFire in doing so. if it actually helps or not i dunno. but that is my ritual.

 

[Khazik]

kinda like seasoning yes. clean off the shipping grease and/or csosmoline, as the case may be.
my theory is, open the pores of the metal and allow the CLP to penetrate, and soak into the metal. ive heard it from some rep before.
hearsay that, i know, but ive not had my guns FTFire in doing so. if it actually helps or not i dunno. but that is my ritual.

Imma have to look this up as I find it quite interesting. Wondering if it works (which I'll find from the research), but... DOES IT SMELL UP THE HOUSE?! <---most important part.

 

[Mellow]

Rather than an oven, I use a heat gun to heat the slide and barrel, coat the parts with the Frog Lube gun butter, then let it cool down.

 

[Robtheman]

I tend to bring mine home, assemble/disassemble many times, lube and shoot. I also sometimes stipple afterward if I shoot it and do not have the right grip.

 

[IndianaRob]

Well with a new gun, I disassemble and reassemble to get familiar with it. For a used gun it is off to the cleaners, comlete disassemble, total cleaning even as far as to strip and refinish the furniture. Then it's wait for range day and throw some lead I luv me some steel, wood, and leather

 

[Slawburger]

I like to take it home and immediately take it apart and put it together a few times

Same here, get familiar with it, learn how it goes together and feels.

Oh, and read the manual. No, really I do. Well, I do for firearms anyway.

 

[debeerman]

me I love that new gun smell. I love to smell it. Then I disassemble it clean it reassemble it if I forget something call my brother to trouble shoot what I did wrong. Keep doingit until I get it. When that new gun smell is gone I go get another one and do it all over again. The great thing is I got two bushmasters just before the panic. Of course I lost them already I have early onset alzheimer's I sure do miss them.

 

[Vlad the Impaler]

open the pores of the metal and allow the CLP to penetrate, and soak into the metal

Doubt your guns are that "spongey" but it certainly won't hurt.

I usually do a field strip and clean followed by a couple dozen function checks and dry fires, then schedule a range session.

 

[pitbulld45]

I fondle it until I have to go to bed. Then I fondle it again the next day and so on until I get to shoot it and something shiny catches my attention.

 

[gotojuston]

take it home and hide it from my wife. then take it apart and try to put it back together without youtube.

 

[HavokCycle]

Imma have to look this up as I find it quite interesting. Wondering if it works (which I'll find from the research), but... DOES IT SMELL UP THE HOUSE?! <---most important part.

nah not really. not with the CLPs i've used anyway - but ATM i'm on a Frog Lube kick. take it for what its worth. works well enough for me. the only thing it won't remove is copper fouling.

actually, it does well enough at that, just need a brush to knock it loose.

 

[HavokCycle]

Doubt your guns are that "spongey" but it certainly won't hurt.

you'd be surprised what metal parts do when subjected to moderate heat and/or cold.

many times in my years have i fitted bike parts together this way - IE, shove a sprocket in the oven, and a wheel in the freezer. few hours later and PRESTO the **** fits.

 

[slowG]

I just learn to field strip it and dry fire it a bit. If I have a holster ill get a feel for it.

 

[TopDog]

Every gun new to me, brand new or I got it used. The first thing I do is a function check, then field strip it, then clean it, even if it appears clean. While cleaning it for the first time I check for anything out of the ordinary, hair line cracks, unusual wear etc. Then I test fire it. Then I clean it again.

Before anyone chimes in with more damage is done by over cleaning. That is only possible if you are a moron and don't know how to properly clean a gun.

This has worked for many years.