Should You Clean New Glock Before Shooting

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do I demand to do this? I field stripped information technology according to the manual but I don't have solvents or annihilation. Is it necessary to clean information technology the first time?
Nobody knows? I'd like to go at present
If it's make new you should clean out whatsoever preservative or packing oil. make sure the barrel is clear of any oils likewise. Clean information technology dry, and then oil it with gun oil.
Don't clean off that copper colored stuff that is on the frame rails. Its some kind of polishing/lapping compound, but make sure the sleeping room and bore are costless of debris and oil/grease.
--wally.
Agreed. It is really anti-sieze compound - a lubricant of sorts - but the slight grittiness would serve to polish and lap.
The "copper stuff" is anti-seize grease.
Evidence me where in the owners transmission it says that stuff is some sort of "interruption-in lapping grease."

You can leave it on, or wipe it off. You lot can grease your glock with Crisco, and it will run fine.
A Glock requires no "lapping and polishing."
You should thoroughly clean any new gun before firing information technology. If packing grease has gotten within the barrel information technology could crusade a KB.
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Don't y'all know Glocks are the "Chuck Norris" of firearms.
No Cleaning necessary just load & shoot.
I forgot to practice this on my last gun. It shot just fine the first fourth dimension, only when I went to make clean it the insides were a mess.
If it'due south new right out of the box, yeah. Clean information technology.
You can wipe off the copper colored stuff. No large deal.

-T.
may not be a big deal, but i wouldnt recommend advising folks to do things contrary to what the makers of the gun advise...
On folio 37 under under figue 13 "cleaning the field stripped pistol" the second sentence under the SLIDE part reads "Annotation that the copper colored lubricant found on portions of the slide of brand new GLOCK pistols should not exist removed, as it volition help to provide long term lubrication of the slide".
Clean your Glock? You lot clean EVERY gun before commencement employ. I'll defer to the Glockophiles here on the topic of the copper-colored slide goo, but otherwise yes, you ever ALWAYS clean a gun before you shoot it.
For ane affair, you actually get a sense of the gun when you've taken it apart and put information technology back together. For another, there's no police force of the universe that says something won't be in there that shouldn't...like a partial blockage of the barrel.

Clean is good.

Springmom
i left mine on, just went through and touched on everything else and it worked like a charm. i dont call back i e'er got a transmission for my glock come to recall of information technology...
Yeah, pick upward some solvents and lube & make clean it.
Field stripping, cleaning, wiping, and drying will help you lot develope some dainty "personal" fourth dimension getting to know your new weapon. If you accept care of it, it will take care of you.

It's a good habit to have. Treat it with care.
Merely cheque the bore and brand sure in that location is nothing in it. Do not clean until after firing, information technology comes from the factory lubed with a special slide grease for break in.
When cleaning I would and do use a firearms degreaser (one that does not affect plastic/polymer) and put one drop of oil on the following areas and work in in, barrel, runway, rail cutting outs on slide, the pocket-sized center rails on the bottom of the slide just backside the firing pin/receiver face area. Yous tin can if you want put a couple of drop of lube on a rag and wipe downwardly the slide. GLOCK'south should not exist run wet.
Practise non lube the mags, only clean, they are a bear to take apart the showtime time.
Many folks run them with likewise much lube, it is not required and they run better lightly lubed.
This is how I clean mine (23/27) and is how well-nigh manuals state to clean and lube.
clean inspect and lube, i suggest lithium based grease etc, information technology takes just a little, and it volition go a long way.
the #1 reson that glocks are sent dorsum to the factory is for over lubrication, the #2 is for nether lubrication.

if yous need to see how to go along a glock running go to youtube and type in James Yeager he has 2 how-to videos on the glock line of pistols. i for lubeing and 1 for cleaning.
Equally was said, just check the bore for safety reasons to make certain zilch is in in that location and you're proficient to go. I'm real picky about having a clean pistol and Glocks are ultra piece of cake to clean and don't require whatsoever special products to exercise so. I use WD-40 on a rag to clean off pulverisation residue, an old toothbrush to castor out the cracks and around the breech face and extractor, a few passes of a cleaning rod downwardly the barrel with a patch sprayed with WD-40 wrapped around the castor followed past a dry out patch, and a few drops of motor oil or transmission fluid applied sparingly to lubricate....most once a year depending on how much it'due south used, practice a detailed strip and clean of the pistol and the mags....in that location's a lot of info on this on the "net" for your reading enjoyment in the meantime...
In that location'due south a thread over on GlockTalk about how many rounds have been fired thru various Glocks without whatsoever cleaning, I'thou talking thousands upon thousands of rounds...it's overnice to hear only I simply don't want to leave my pistol dirty...it could be called upon for my defense and I want information technology to take no reason not to work....if it was strictly a range gun, then maybe I could permit information technology go for five hundred to a thousand rds between cleanings. I believe the manual says to make clean and oil monthly whether fired or non but that's in that location to cover every imaginable part of the country information technology could exist in under who knows what kind of conditions....only use your mutual sense and your Glock volition exist fine....
I clean and inspect all new guns. All old lube,packing grease, preservatives, and burnt powder will be taken off with fresh lube practical. Barrel gets a patch through and cleaned.
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Rack the unloaded guns slide and look to make sure there are no strange objects in the barrel. Then shoot it and be happy! When the gun is dirty and then take it apart and clean/lube it. Have fun and congradulations!