Tiered Cleaning

Basic, deep, or restoration

Not every gun needs the full treatment, so you don't pay for it. The basic clean is disassembly, a quick cleaning to lift visible grease, dirt, carbon, and lead, an inspection to confirm every part is there, a bore snake through the barrel, oil or grease on every surface that wants it, reassembly, a final wipe to bring the finish back, and a function check — usually $40–50, and the gun leaves ready to shoot. The deep clean adds the ultrasonic bath, light touch-ups to the finish, the full set of safety checks, and a little honest restoration work: $65 for pistols, $100 for rifles — AR and AK platforms price as rifles — and $80–140 for shotguns, depending on how the gun comes apart, since over/unders and side-by-sides take the most work to strip and reassemble. The top tier isn't a cleaning at all — it's a restoration, always quoted per job, for guns in rough shape: full strip, blasting, re-parkerizing, bluing, or anodizing, woodwork with sanding, steaming, and waxing, then reassembly and hand-fitting. A full restart on the metal and the wood.

Whatever tier you choose, the firearm comes back reassembled, function-checked, and properly lubricated — not dripping, not bone-dry, but lubed where it should be and wiped where it shouldn't.

Why ultrasonic, on the deeper cleans

An ultrasonic bath uses cavitation to lift carbon and fouling out of the corners a bore brush and a patch never touch — trigger-group crevices, gas systems, the inside of a bolt carrier. On a heavily fouled or long-neglected firearm it's the difference between looking clean and being clean. On a gun that's simply due for maintenance it's overkill, which is exactly why it lives in the deep clean and not on every ticket.