ORIGINAL: Colorado Luckydog
Lets say you have a Remington 700 that is dead nuts and shoots as good as any gun you have ever owned. How oftenwould you recommend to take your bolt all the way down and clean the firing pin?
I do it on ocassion. Especially before a trip where I might be staying in a soft sided tent in possible wetcold frigidconditions. Its cheap insurance. Anyone can take it apart in a few seconds.
I buy and sell alot of used 700's and its standard operation for me to disasseble when I first clean it. You won't believe the crap I find in there. Sometimes alot of rust in the spring area from no cleaning/oil. But mostly what looks like heavy gummy grease over overoil/no cleaning.