11-22-2006, 01:19 PM
I went shooting with one of my sons today (his first time shooting the M1 Rifle) and started to wonder about how often weapons were cleaned.
I know there are probably a ton of variables concerned, but how often did you guys clean your weapons? Was it a quick run through of a patch, or did you break it down and clean it whenever you had the chance?
I think I speak for the guys in the LINE COMPANYS, We gave them a lick and a promise but when we were pulled off the line, first,a bath, turned in our DIRTY,Muddy cloths, shaved had a good meal then we settled down and cleaned our weapons and ammo. If we happened to be close to a town, we took a couple of cans of c-rations, cigs. when we came back we had smiling faces. Yes we carried a cord with some patches to bore clean our weapons. Roque