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What it boils down to is there is no one way to clean a firearm, either for use, or for storage. But danged if there ain't ALOT of "wrong" ways.
I rebuilt a old colt 1911A1 (against my better judgement) for a fella into a VERY tight VERY accurate shooter. Guy calls me the next day after delivery and says "I don't know what you did to my gun but it won't do anything now and the expert at the pawn shop says he could only give me $20 in trade for it because it was messed up bad!" He was mad, I was mad, so I had him bring it over. It took a mallet and about 15 minutes to break the gun down, and then it covered my workbench in wd40.... His way of "oiling" the old colt was to take a gallon can of wd40 he had and just drop the gun in it when he wasn't using it and let it set. Well needless to say next time a TIGHT gun gets shot it locks up from all the oil. I proved it to him. I broke it down, I cleaned it up. Put a little 3-in-1 on it and shot 100 rounds of my own ammo into a target in a VERY nice group. Then he shot 100 rounds of his own ammo into the same target in a VERY nice group. The next day he calls me cussing because it is locked up again. I asked him about the wd40 and he told me I didn't know what the heck I was talking about he had been doing it that way since before I was born. He brought it back over, half an hour later with the mallet the gun is broken down, I proved it AGAIN! The next day same phonecall. My answer that time was "That gun is obviously too tight for you with a custom fitted barrel and parts. Bring it back I will stick the old parts back in and buy the new parts BACK from you." He tells me to "go to heck" only not that nice. Sells it to a buddy of his, and mine, a week later for $50 who brings it to me. I clean it up show him how to oil a tight 1911A1 and he uses it in IPSC matches. To this day the original owner tells everybody he meets that I messed up his gun. Invariably they go to the guy who bought it who tells them I am the greatest thing since sliced white bread. As a side note he paid big bucks for a gold match grade kimber. He has sent it back to the company at least a dozen times because it "locks up" I just grin and shake my head every time my buddy that bought the old colt tells me about it.
GoodOlBoy
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