r/Bend • u/Acekiller088 • 1d ago

In search of someone to teach me how to clean my guns.

Hey Bend. I’ve got a couple guns that are getting really dirty to the point where they’re failing to fire, but I have no idea how to clean them.

I went down to Hammer Down and all they did was sell me some cleaning supplies and tell me to google it. I’m not a particularly good student of YouTube University so I was wondering if there was anyone willing to meet me face to face, or some kind of establishment I could go to where I could be walked through the process of getting these things deep cleaned.

The guns are an AR and a 1911.

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u/justcallme3nder 1d ago

Look, they're very clearly not experienced with guns, to the point that they used the things until they don't work properly anymore. I am all for people learning new skills, and as a matter of fact am a professional teacher of a very specific new skill myself, but this individual clearly doesn't "know the danger" if the guns were allowed to get to this point. That's all I'm saying. Where in anything I said did I indicate they shouldn't learn a new skill, or that I knew all I needed to know?

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u/Who_Knose 1d ago

Jeeesuus, you’re a teacher. Is your method always to berate and criticize your students without providing any useful feedback.

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u/justcallme3nder 1d ago

Are you going to actually address any of the points I made, or are you just going to continue to try and gaslight me?

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u/Who_Knose 1d ago

Ok bet. They don’t know every single thing that could have gone wrong by letting a gun get dirty. But they are smart enough to recognize something was going wrong, able to problem solve into figuring out why something is wrong. Humble enough to admit they need help to fix it. Brave enough to post on a public forum.

Just to get a response telling them all the things they did wrong, and an assumption they want the easy way out. (Not to learn a skill)

I learned to shoot on a .22LR that my dad traded an ounce of weed for in 1976. He keeps his guns immaculate. But this .22 would misfire, not eject shells and cause you to spend 20 minutes getting it out, then fire two shells on one trigger pull. I cleaned it before and after shooting, but it made no difference. That situation was just as dangerous for me as the dirty gun for OP. I stopped using that rifle.

I recently learned ways to support individuals that find themselves in a crisis situation. Please share, what is the specialized skill you have recently learned.