I know opinions vary from do nothing to obsessive cleaning. I tend to be in the "less is more" camp.

For those of you shooting Diana 60s, 65s and 75s or similar vintages, I'd like to know your care regimen. Specifically, what do you do to a gun that you're shooting weekly or with some regularity? What products? What procedures?

Thanks

but I'm in the "benign neglect" camp, on the basis that match rifles were designed to shoot far greater quantities of pellets between services than I have ever been able to get through, even at times when I've shot them a lot by my standards.

I tend to get rifles I plan to use serviced with new seals and lubes when I buy them - or do it myself if not too complicated. Thereafter I very occasionally treat seals to a drop of Abbey SM50 through the transfer port and a smear around the exposed part of the breech area. But I'm talking once a year, and more often than that only if I've used them very heavily. I suppose if I was shooting several hundred pellets a week then I would think about more frequent care regime.

I clean barrels once when I first obtain the rifle and don't do it again unless there's some unexplained accuracy problem that could be a problem with the bore.



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Just about every vintage AR gets stripped and inspected. The Diana Giss systems (mod 60, 65, 66, 75) also have the seals replaced (I have a jig that makes disassembly/reassembly easy). Those with rust are reblued.

There are only 2 that I haven't opened as I know they've been repaired in Germany by a knowledgeable gunsmith.

The vintage ones with leather seals are always stripped (especially one other brand that starts with a 'W' and end with an 'r' as they are known for leather seal deterioration).

My logic is this; once I get them all fixed-up, they'll have another 50 year lifespan. I don't want to replace seals when I'm 97 years old

Chuck