Cleaning Your Airsoft Gun

Maintaining and cleaning your airsoft gun will keep a new gun shooting like new longer. If you purchased a used gun, you will want to start off fresh and clean your airsoft gun. Cleaning your gun will also help you better understand exactly how your airsoft gun works.

4 Reasons to keep your gun clean:

• Enhanced performance
• Maintain/increase accuracy
• Reduced jamming
• Faster shooting

Now, before cleaning your gun make sure to remove the power source.
Depending on the type of airsoft gun you have you will do one of the following:

• Dry shoot to confirm it’s not cocked-spring action guns
• Remove battery pack-electric guns
• Disconnect CO2 tank-pressurized gas guns

To clean the exterior of the airsoft gun:

• Wipe clean with a clean non-abrasive cloth
• Use cotton swabs for crevices and hard to reach areas.

To clean the magazine of the airsoft gun:

• Remove magazine
• Clean the magazine the same as the exterior
• All moving parts should have a drop of oil added
• Replace magazine

To clean the barrel of the airsoft gun:

• Turn of hop up system on gun
• Spray a .22 cleaning patch with silicone
• With patch on rod, insert in into barrel to clean
• Use an in and out motion
• Swab barrel 3-4 times
• Repeat swabbing procedure with a dry patch
• When patches come out clean after dry swabbing, you are finished!

There are gun-cleaning kits available online and in stores. If you need a good place to get some gear to clean your gun try our website. If you run out of swabs you can always use tissue paper or toilet paper.

After cleaning your airsoft gun, be sure to have a few trial shots before going out. You do not want to find out later that you did a poor job and need to adjust your shooting or re-clean your gun again!