How often do you clean your chambers in a cylinder?
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ame as with all of my firearms. They are cleaned after every use.
Depends. If you're shooting Specials in a Magnum frequently. I try not to use Dirty Powders if I can help it.
I was talking about rimfires, I’ve polished some of mine.After cleaning them they load easy then after about 2 or 3 cylinders they get harder to load the shell in the cylinder.
Filthy Powder in those. A toothbrush and solvent every few cylinders will keep them running.
noahmercy
Blackhawk
I pull a bore snake through the holes when there is noticeable resistance loading or extracting cartridges/ cases. Very dependent on the ammunition. With some of the inexpensive bulk stuff, that may be after only five or six cylinders-full. Ammo with cleaner powders may go three times that. I do know my SS and Bearcat have incredibly tight chambers, as I have never had to clean as often with other 22s, even using the same ammo.
I brush and oil them after every use, as soon as I can. That way I don't forget. 
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The only exception to cleaning after each use is rifles used for hunting. They are zero checked, cleaned and one fouling shot fired until the season is over.
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A .22 stainless steel chamber brush from Midway. I use a .38/.357 chamber brush on .357 revolvers to clean up the carbon/lead from shooting .38. 
The cost of mailing is more than the chamber brush so wait for free shipping or put together an order worthy of the shipping cost. I really like the chamber brush for revolvers.
The cost of mailing is more than the chamber brush so wait for free shipping or put together an order worthy of the shipping cost. I really like the chamber brush for revolvers.
i clean them after every use
If my hands don't come out of a revolver range session black with soot then I didn't have enough time to shoot much. As far as cleaning, I try to keep them shootable. If a bad dude wanted to take my revolver from me he would know I knew how to use it by looking at it...I like to spend my time with guns shooting so as far as cleaning chambers on a 22 revolver, only if I think it needs to be done and that would be seldom...
There are firearms that don’t need cleaning. They’ll run forever. Why, we won’t even issue cleaning kits. That will save a bundle. Of course the the M16 started getting folks killed.
I’ll stick with what dad taught me and clean after each use. Then again, a perfectly clean M16 still failed. So on some POS weapons it doesn’t really matter.
I’ll stick with what dad taught me and clean after each use. Then again, a perfectly clean M16 still failed. So on some POS weapons it doesn’t really matter.
harley08
Blackhawk
clean after each use!
epags
Single-Sixer
When it gets hard to insert a new round. That can be during a session (I use a bore snake) and when I clean a revolver/pistol after a session (or two). Cylinder and barrel.
My experience is if you’re using waxed or “greased” lead ammunition you will need to clean the chambers more frequently than you would with plated .22 ammo. That waxed stuff will leave more residue.
fiasconva
Blackhawk
22 ammo is pretty dirty so I usually clean after every session.
vlavalle
Blackhawk
There is no cylinder on a pistol! Only revolvers have cylinders. I clean my revolvers after shooting them each and every time. It only takes 5-10 minutes. Iclean the cylinder and barrel first with a steel brush with a small paper wad and oil, replacing the cloth till it shows no dirt when running thru all the cylinders (one Ruger is a Convertible, so it has 2 cylinders). I then run just a clean swab thru all holes to pick up any possible residue. I check all by using my fingernail as the reflector, and shinning light onto my finger (often just the room lighting), which then lights up all the holes and barrels nicely, making it very easy to see if it is completely clean or not.
My .357 Ruger Blackhaek is 58 years old and it looks new, apart from some of the blue worn on the left outside of the tip of the barrel, from my quick drawing days from a Western style holster. Too bad I hadn't bought a SS model back in 1965! I also have a 1993 Ruger GP100 SS, that does look new, and a Ruger SS 45LC Convertible that is new (2015). I clean them all after shooting.
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GasGuzzler
Hawkeye
Really generally and vague, open-ended question. Are you asking the daily shooters or those with collectibles they don't shoot?
Shooters
Shooters
Here we go again with the revolvers aren’t pistols thing. An early Colt ad called them pistols. Various dictionaries call revolvers “pistols”. Pistols are handguns regardless of the mechanism they use.
Then add in things like the Webley Fosbery and it gets even more interesting.
Then add in things like the Webley Fosbery and it gets even more interesting.
I clean mine after each usage. I know that it isn't really necessary, but I can't help myself. This is probably one of the several reasons that I shoot my semi-autos more often than my revolvers, they are simply easier to clean.
I always figured cleaning a six-gun is just always cleaning 7 barrels.
This.
I have five different .22LR DA revolvers of two different makes. They ALL require the chambers to be brushed out and the extractor stars brushed under every 50-100 rounds or they start getting hard to load and hard to shoot DA. So every 8 to 10 cylinders full, I give each chamber one stab with a USGI M16 bore brush, and quickly brush out under the extractor star with an old stiff toothbrush. This keeps things running smoothly.
MHtractorguy
Blackhawk
My Wrangler is self-cleaning, just like the rest of my rimfires.
