[quote]ORIGINAL: pintailhomes

If you want ease of cleaning and maintenance, get a revolver period. Open the wheel clean the barrel...yadda yadda oil here, oil there, and you're done. Auto's are great and I have two autos, I also have two revolvers, .22lr, .40sw, .357mag, and .44mag.

Auto are more involved with cleaning even if some people on take them down into 3 parts, that's field cleaning and if you really want to get down and dirty there is much more to it, springs flying everywhere if you're not careful and you could loose an eye...well possibly...just kidding.

I don't know what kind of autos you have cleaned, but in this case my Walthers don't throw springs and become messy as you disclosed. With 200 rounds through it in one sitting for targets, I spend less than 15 minutes cleaning and inspecting. In that time, you shouldn't be choosing a firearm solely on cleaning. Comfort, ease, design, caliber, accuracy, and so on should be running through your mind, instead of being concerned if it takes 10 minutes to clean or 30 minutes.