Moderator Cleaning?

[David Aiken 253]

Just picked up a new SAK moderator. The supplied instructions state `due to heavy metals and toxic residue SAK do not recommend the cleaning or dismantling of their moderators. Cleaning is unnecessary` Is this just a precaution on their part, or don't shooters clean moderators any more?

[jacknife 2,005]

I take my mods off the rifles and find with the sak the outer tube comes of leaving the inner baffle still on the rifle

 

Then I have to grab the baffle and unscrew that and if its left unclean I get greasy black shit all over my hands

[shropshire dan 467]

I just give my SAK silencer a clean once every 1000 rounds or so. I personally just leave it in boiling water then use a nail brush to get any stubborn dirt off. Then light spray of WD40 leave to soke then blow it out with an air line. Pretty much the same with the wildcat on the .22-250 but every 50 rounds with that. The .22lr o rarely clean the barrel internally just wipe out and oil the chamber now and again. But always wipe over with oily rag once dried naturally after a wet night.

 

Regards

Dan

[David Aiken 253]

Same here, I clean every 1000 rounds or so. I guess we are lucky the EU haven't band the practices due to the heavy metals and toxic residue and grouped the cleaning of moderators in with the CFC danger

[samboy 304]

Iv'e had my Parker Hale mod over 10yrs and fired 1000s through it and never cleaned it once.

It is probally jammed solid with gunge so i'd be better off getting a new one.

Have never cleaned the barrel either and it shoots spot on.

All i've ever done is cleaned the bolt and scrubbed the chamber a few times

due to a few empty cases sticking. CZ 452.

[slipper 116]

I just lean mine in the corner of the cabinet and spray wd down them

As for the barrels I haven't cleaned my 223 barrel for a while and groups are getting smaller and smaller

The 22 I have never cleaned

[SportingShooter 0]

For the sake of the £35 a SAK costs, I just shoot it and don't bother cleaning it at all.

 

I'm on my second now I think, the other had a small rust hole in it after tens of thousands of HMR and .22LR rounds over about 6 years.

[Tremo 138]

I used to clean my SAK in the early (and more enthusiastic) days. I don't bother these days. I'm too busy chasing foxes around farms! . Like SS says, for £35 it is not worth the fanny around. Besides that I know a guy who has never cleaned is and he too has put 1000s through the rifle. He adamantly believes that it aids with the suppression on a rimmy.

[Deker 3,478]

If you have the time then why not, but I don't spent too much time on the rimfire mods.

 

I tend to knock out the crud, give it a right session banging it on the likes of an old telephone directory or Argos catalogue.

 

Centrefires mods are a whole different matter!

[3175darren 1,100]

I clean my rimfire mod once a yr it's a sak, don't like the thought of not cleaning it, always good to check things thoroughly, and what better time to do it, than when you are cleaning it,

[The one 8,467]

Same here in the early days I used to strip mine and clean the, baffles tried petrol , wd 40 and others stuff as they where nearly welded together got piles of crude off them , then you got to resign to the rifle and I didn't think it made any diffrence to the sound level so I stopped it

[jacknife 2,005]

I never leave the mods on the rifles something I've always done

[slipper 116]

Me to I think the last owner of my rifle had left the mod on so I had to have it cut and re threaded which has improved accuracy