cleaning air rifle

sscheide · 05-20-2007, 06:03 PM

i have a daisy pump air gun
its in .177
how often should i clean it?
what should i use and how do i clean it?
should i buy a cleaning kit? should i take it to be cleaned?

Oxford · 05-20-2007, 10:17 PM

sscheide...strange that you should ask that question. Just yesterday evening I was shooting my Daisy pump air rifle, which I bought last fall at Wal Mart, at a cottontail which was eyeing my wife's rose petals.

Not that I care a lot what the rabbit eats...but my wife is hard to live when her rose petals have been made into salad.

So...out comes the Daisy Air rifle, inserted the .177 pellet in the chamber, pumped the lever about six times, aimed using the scope which came with the gun, and pow! Out came a puff of oily smoke, rabbit jumps and scrambles out of range...while I'm left to reload.

Anyway, back to your original question about how often and how to clean that rifle. So far I've not had to do anything beside squirt a couple drops of light weight oil in the correct spot on the lever pumping mechanism, and that's been enough to keep it working.

Now if it ever requires more, I will at that time have to study the mechanism further in order to see how it's assembled. Hopefully, it will work almost endlessly with just the occasional oil drops which help the chamber to retain compression enough to boost that pellet out the muzzle at 1000 fps toward it's intended target.

Doubt if my comments will help you...but you can be reassured that your air rifle should work flawlessly without being overhauled "if" you take care good care of it, don't throw it around carelessly, and treat it with as much respect as if was you were bear hunting with the rifle (maybe a 30.06 rifle) and that bear might be coming directly for you. And...that your life depended upon having taken good care of that air rife so it will fire whenever the trigger was pulled.

Ox

05-20-2007, 06:03 PM	#1
sscheide Registered User Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 1 Trader Rating: (0)	cleaning air rifle i have a daisy pump air gun its in .177 how often should i clean it? what should i use and how do i clean it? should i buy a cleaning kit? should i take it to be cleaned?

05-20-2007, 10:17 PM	#2
Oxford Super Moderator Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Gladstone, Missouri Posts: 12,981 Trader Rating: (0)	sscheide...strange that you should ask that question. Just yesterday evening I was shooting my Daisy pump air rifle, which I bought last fall at Wal Mart, at a cottontail which was eyeing my wife's rose petals. Not that I care a lot what the rabbit eats...but my wife is hard to live when her rose petals have been made into salad. So...out comes the Daisy Air rifle, inserted the .177 pellet in the chamber, pumped the lever about six times, aimed using the scope which came with the gun, and pow! Out came a puff of oily smoke, rabbit jumps and scrambles out of range...while I'm left to reload. Anyway, back to your original question about how often and how to clean that rifle. So far I've not had to do anything beside squirt a couple drops of light weight oil in the correct spot on the lever pumping mechanism, and that's been enough to keep it working. Now if it ever requires more, I will at that time have to study the mechanism further in order to see how it's assembled. Hopefully, it will work almost endlessly with just the occasional oil drops which help the chamber to retain compression enough to boost that pellet out the muzzle at 1000 fps toward it's intended target. Doubt if my comments will help you...but you can be reassured that your air rifle should work flawlessly without being overhauled "if" you take care good care of it, don't throw it around carelessly, and treat it with as much respect as if was you were bear hunting with the rifle (maybe a 30.06 rifle) and that bear might be coming directly for you. And...that your life depended upon having taken good care of that air rife so it will fire whenever the trigger was pulled. Ox __________________ "If it's worth doing, it's worth doing right". Last edited by Oxford; 05-20-2007 at 10:20 PM.