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    Gun Digest's Revolver Maintenance Concealed Carry eShort: Learn how to keep your revolver running like new with these pistol maintenance secrets, revolver cleaning tips & handgun storage solutions.
    Gun Digest's Revolver Maintenance Concealed Carry eShort: Learn how to keep your revolver running like new with these pistol maintenance secrets, revolver cleaning tips & handgun storage solutions.
    Gun Digest's Revolver Maintenance Concealed Carry eShort: Learn how to keep your revolver running like new with these pistol maintenance secrets, revolver cleaning tips & handgun storage solutions.
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    Gun Digest's Revolver Maintenance Concealed Carry eShort: Learn how to keep your revolver running like new with these pistol maintenance secrets, revolver cleaning tips & handgun storage solutions.

    By Grant Cunningham

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    In this excerpt from the Gun Digest Book of the Revolver, Grant Cunningham covers after range session cleaning procedures, how to remove lead from the bore and how to proper firearm storage.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGun Digest Books
    Release dateJul 1, 2012
    ISBN9781440234019
    Gun Digest's Revolver Maintenance Concealed Carry eShort: Learn how to keep your revolver running like new with these pistol maintenance secrets, revolver cleaning tips & handgun storage solutions.
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    Grant Cunningham

    Grant Cunningham is a renowned self-defense author, teacher, and internationally known gunsmith (retired). He's the author of The Gun Digest Book of the Revolver, Shooter's Guide to Handguns, Defensive Pistol Fundamentals, and Handgun Training: Practice Drills for Defensive Shooting, and has written articles on shooting, self-defense, training and teaching for many magazines, shooting websites and his blog at grantcunningham.com.

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      Gun Digest's Revolver Maintenance Concealed Carry eShort - Grant Cunningham

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      Concealed Carry: Revolver Maintenance

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      Dip bore patch into your chosen solvent. Be sure to wear rubber gloves and eye protection!

      It’s been said that the autoloading pistol is more tolerant of abuse, where the revolver is more tolerant of neglect. In my experience that’s a pretty accurate observation; the revolver will function even exposed to the kind of dirty and hostile environment encountered in a pocket or ankle holster, the kind of environment that stops autos in a matter of days.

      The revolver is certainly less maintenance-intensive than the autoloader, but that doesn’t mean it’s maintenance free. A little attention, of the right kind, will ensure that your revolver runs at peak efficiency at all times. It starts with treating the gun right whenever you use it.

      After every range session

      I have a confession: I don’t clean my gun after every range outing. I’ll admit to being a bit of a slob in this regard, as some of my guns have gone more than a year between cleanings. This is definitely a ‘do as I say, not as I do’ situation, because as a gunsmith I can tell when problems are creeping up, and more importantly I can fix problems quickly and easily. Unless you’re in the same situation I recommend that you keep the maintenance on your revolver up to date.

      Like any other gun, a revolver should be cleaned as soon after shooting as is practical. It keeps the gun in proper condition for immediate use, alerts you to problems before they become serious, and generally gives you a better understanding of your gun and how it functions. Yes, I’ll concede that it’s a dirty job, which I try to get through with as little bother as possible. Here’s how to do it.

      Safety first!

      The first thing to do is to check that the revolver is unloaded, then double check it. I’m always amazed at the number of people to claim that their gun went off while they were cleaning it, and so you should make doubly sure that the chambers are empty before ever starting.

      Also make sure that there is no ammunition in the proximity of your cleaning area. This is an important and often overlooked safety procedure, one which ensures that no live round can ‘accidentally’ make its way anywhere near your gun. I recommend cleaning the gun in a separate room, one which has been checked and confirmed to have no ammunition present.

      Run wet patch through the bore a couple of times.

      Start with the barrel

      Once the area is secure, wet a patch with your choice of bore cleaner and run it down the barrel a couple of times. The goal here is to get the barrel wet so that the cleaner has time to soften any residue in the bore. These couple of passes should leave you with a very dirty patch, so discard it. Wet a second clean patch and do the same to every chamber. The bore and chambers will sit, wet, for a few minutes while you attend to the rest of the gun.

      It’s important that you not choose a bore cleaner that contains ammonia, as many that claim to remove copper fouling do. If your cleaner is of that variety, don’t let the barrel and cylinder sit – finish cleaning them immediately.

      While the barrel and cylinder are soaking, take a toothbrush or, better yet, the

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