I went ahead and took everyone's advice and cleaned, with the help of the people of my local gun store, before firing today. 100 rounds smoothly, went home cleaned it again. I purchased a cleaning kit from Menards which aside from the rods and oil wasn't very helpful, at least I didn't find it very helpful. I used q tips for most of my cleaning ran patches through the barrel until it was clean, and oiled the slide and other parts as well. I'm happy with my purchase, and am looking forward to take the hour and a half trip to cabelas for some actual cleaning supplies, more ammo, and a good holster.
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