How often do you clean your suppressors?

[Jason277]

How often do you clean your surppressor? I have a Thunder Beast Ultra 7 with about 250 rounds through it. Thank you in advance . Jason

 

[QuickTrigger7]

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[Q_Sertorius]

I clean my rimfire suppressors every 500 rounds. If I don’t, they drop gunk down into the chamber and jam things up.

I haven’t had any reason to clean my center fire suppressors yet, some of which have thousands of rounds through them.

 

[peterk123]

I clean my rimfire suppressors every 500 rounds. If I don’t, they drop gunk down into the chamber and jam things up.

I haven’t had any reason to clean my center fire suppressors yet, some of which have thousands of rounds through them.

Same here.

 

[WBT]

I’ve never cleaned a centerfire suppressor.

 

[Jason277]

I was wondering if it was necessary or they self clean with the force of the gasses …

 

[HuntHarder]

They "self clean" and actually sound slightly better when they are dirty. I cleaned one of mine after 2500ish rounds just to see and I was shocked at how much came out. I will actually clean all mine every 1000ish rounds going forward. No, really down side other than a little elbow grease.

 

[justin davis]

Thunderbeast recommends cleaning when the can gains a couple ounces if that makes sense.

I clean my suppressors fairly regularly. I’ve had a few times on hunts when carbon fell Down in into the chamber and made loading a round hard to do.

 

[doc holiday13]

i clean the threads with some carbon cutter every time i remove the suppressor.

 

[cbuck516]

I think "when to clean" is highly dependent on your shooting style and what sort of rifle you have them on. I used my Omega 300 for almost three years with slow burning magnum powders and ended up with 5oz of carbon buildup in it. Silencer Co didn't even believe me when I told them how much it weighed. I only used it for hunting and load development for the first several years I had it and never really let the can get very hot where it could blow out the crud. I started participating in PRS matches last year and have been repeatedly soaking my bafflestack in CLR and then blasting it out during a match. I am still slowly working that carbon crud out of there about 0.2oz at a time.