Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Happiess is a clean gun

Otherwise, you might get this.


Corrosive ammo is forever.

11 comments:

  1. TinCan AssassinJanuary 3, 2012 at 6:49 PM

    That looks like the barrel of my Mosin M44. I call it my parts gun.

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  2. CarteachJanuary 3, 2012 at 6:54 PM

    Still worth a good scrubbing, just to see what happens. I have cleaned up a few sewer pipes and found them to still shoot decently.

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  3. ASM826January 3, 2012 at 7:10 PM

    Not one of yours, I hope.

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  4. NotClauswitzJanuary 3, 2012 at 7:34 PM

    Looks like the Spiral Nebulae!

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  5. Broken AndyJanuary 3, 2012 at 7:39 PM

    Are you just holding a flash light at the chamber, or do you have a special gizmo? Just curious.

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  6. BorepatchJanuary 3, 2012 at 9:57 PM

    No, not mine. It's a pic that was posted to reddit. Not sure what they used for illumination.

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  7. SnowdogJanuary 4, 2012 at 7:26 AM

    looks sadly familiar, like the bore of my SKS after I cleaned all the cosmoline out.

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  8. Weer'd BeardJanuary 4, 2012 at 8:45 AM

    M-Pro7 has done me proud in all my corrosive ammo shooting.

    And I'm hardly anal about it. At the blog shoots I'll run ammo through my guns in the morning and scrub the crap out of them at 10 at night after them sitting in the muggy air all day.

    Just don't forget about your gun after shooting corrosive, use a water-based cleaner, and then add some good protective oil and you'll be finest kind!

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  9. Brad_in_ILJanuary 4, 2012 at 12:08 PM

    I too use the Weerd-method of cleaning from corrosive ammo, with one extra step added in. I swab the bore generously with the magical blue elixer known as windex, then use M-Pro 7, then generously oil. My mosin has a brilliant bore.

    - Brad

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  10. FirehandJanuary 4, 2012 at 3:45 PM

    Ballistol & water: couple of patches through the bore when done shooting, then a dry, then an oily. Normal cleaning after get home.

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  11. BorepatchJanuary 4, 2012 at 10:56 PM

    Brad, I squirted the SKS down with Windex. I like Firehand's idea, too.

    Oh, and I'm kind of surprised that nobody posted The Quote: My God, it's full of scars!

    ;-)

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