Cleaning your carry pistol

Just read this article...and saw the pictures

https://www.personaldefenseworld.com...-dirtiest-gun/

Personally, I have never cleaned my 2 primary carry guns...a Glock 26 and 17. However, if you take off the slide they look nothing like that. I've jumped in a lake with clothes on to help my struggling son with my pistol on...still didn't clean it.

I just shoot it (after it dried out) and shot a little bit of Rem Oil on the slide. This isn't rocket science. I've shot a few thousand rounds out of both and never cleaned them and never had a malfunction that wasn't purposefully induced.

My suggestion is, at least if you have a Glock...shoot it a few times per year and it won't get like that. My Colt Ar15 is pretty nasty right now too, but I've been going out almost every evening (rain or shine) looking for a fox that keeps taking my chickens. I know the gun will function though because I've pushed it too its limits too. I don't think I've ever cleaned it either aside from spraying a bunch of oil in it and then firing it afterwards and wiping off obvious mud from the surface.

Just not sure how a person could get to the point where their gun (=life) was so dirty that it wouldn't function. Every gun I've ever had a malfunction with was either ammunition fault, magazine related, or operator error. I've never had a malfunction from being too dirty and I rarely, rarely, rarely clean anything anymore.

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Cleaning your carry pistol