Normal Maintenance

You'll get a lot of different answers to this one. I wipe off the feed ramp and inside the slide every 50 rounds or so and lubricate. I field strip and clean thoroughly every 200 or 300 rounds. If I'm feeling ambitious, I detail strip the slide and clean every 1500--2000 rounds. I'm too much of a klutz to detail strip the frame, but plenty of guys here do, at various intervals. You'll want to change out the recoil spring eventually; there will be no agreement on the round count: some will change at 1500, others will let it go until 5000.

 

My maintenance schedule:

A touch of lube before shooting

Field strip and clean/lube at 500 rds

Change recoil and firing pin spring at 2000 rds

Detail strip, clean/lube and change recoil-firing pin-mainspring at 4000 rds

 

May be a little excessive but I field strip and clean after every fireing and detail strip and clean after 500rds or when I carry in adverse conditions.
An old habit from a time when my life depended on a firearm functioning flawlessly .

 

I keep it simple...

A, I field strip - clean & lube every time I shoot a gun ...
B. Every 2,000 rds, I do a complete strip on the gun down to a bare frame ..clean, inspect & lube. If you don't shoot it much ...do it once a Qtr.
C. On springs.... I have changed a little over time...springs are better now...
1. Recoil springs I use Wilson flat spring & they say 40,000 rds before replacement.
2. Firing pin spring replace at about 20,000 rds
3. Mainspring ... I replace at about 50,000 rds
4. Sear spring ....I replace at about 100,000 rds...

 

I lube any gun befor eshooting( since my hand surgery ,many were not shot for quite a while) .

I wipe the barrel clean and the chamber after each session

field strip clean and relube after 100 rounds.

done

 

Well there is......



Sorry. Could not resist. Colt had an add back about 1984 or so when they introduced models in SS that showed a Colt SS 1911 in a dishwasher and that was printed in many gun mags of the time. If you have questions on your CZ/DW I would call them and ask. That could be good or bad experience. Anything I tell you may or may not be what CZ/DW thinks is what is good for one of their pistols.

For what it is worth I field strip, clean, lube, and inspect after every range trip although that may happen the day after the range trip. Depending on the inspection then the experience may go further.

 

I field strip, clean, lube and inspect the gun every time I shoot it. A detail strip is done once a year. I've never kept a gun long enough to need a spring change.

 

Carry guns get field stripped, cleaned and lubed every time I shoot them cause Elmer Keith said so.

Competition pistols just get lubed during the season unless they start acting up. It's fun to see how disgusting they can get and still run fine.

I detail strip the slides far more often than the frames. (Probably every 2000 rounds) Extractors get covered in crud. Bill Wilson has said he never takes the lower half of a 1911 apart once it is working the way he wants.

Recoil springs and firing pin springs once a year at minimum. I've taken some high round count classes where I was tempted to swap springs out after the weekend.