Clean your gun

Went shooting with a friend today. She's a great shot, fun shooting partner and really challenges me to keep up on my skills. Unless I really pay attention and concentrate on shooting, front site, trigger control, and breathing she can kick my ass all over the target. I have been shooting for 20 years. She's been shooting for 6 months.

Anywho, after shooting today I asked her about cleaning and she said she hadn't in a while. I told her I would clean it. The last time I saw a gun that dirty was about $15 years ago when my buddy and I blew 250+ Chinese surplus rounds in an afternoon through my SKS. The surplus ammo is some nasty, dirty stuff. It's also "mildly" corrosive. It took me a couple dozen of patches to get the barrel, chrome lined mind you, clean.

This Glock 19 was that bad. The barrel alone took about 20 patches. The frame took 15 more. The slide was another 20. The slides first 6 patches were completely black from powder and gunk. It was nasty. The moral of this story...clean your gun !! And the 2nd moral...damn Glocks are reliable.