velocette
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Did them Rooskies ever CLEAN their rifles?
Ok, I bought a Russian bolt rifle. A 7.62 X 54R Mosin Nagant from Cabellas. Paid $89.95 for it plus shipping. Worth every penny I paid. (I think) All matching numbers, including the bayonet. I began to clean the bore. Patch after patch with solvent came out dirty. Then I attacked it with copper solvent and brushes. I've used several bore cleaning solvents, a bunch of brushes, & a pile of patches now for four days. I think that by now I have removed enough copper and enough powder residue from the bore to offer up the copper to a scrap metal dealer. I have a stack of blue, (then green) used patches that resembles a snowdrift.
Under a bore light, the bore now appears to be pretty clean with bright sharp rifling. BUT, I still get slightly dark patches when I run a clean patch through the bore. Folks believe me when I tell you that I have cleaned the H - - - out of that bore. It is finally coming to be fairly clean and the patches turn only light blue after sitting in the bore for about 10 minutes. (as opposed to turning dark purple and then bileous green)
I don't think that this rifle ever had its bore cleaned properly for copper or powder fouling.
And yet the Rooskies killed a lot of Germans with these rifles.
Any of youse got stories about how dirty your Mosey bore was?
Roger
Ok, I bought a Russian bolt rifle. A 7.62 X 54R Mosin Nagant from Cabellas. Paid $89.95 for it plus shipping. Worth every penny I paid. (I think) All matching numbers, including the bayonet. I began to clean the bore. Patch after patch with solvent came out dirty. Then I attacked it with copper solvent and brushes. I've used several bore cleaning solvents, a bunch of brushes, & a pile of patches now for four days. I think that by now I have removed enough copper and enough powder residue from the bore to offer up the copper to a scrap metal dealer. I have a stack of blue, (then green) used patches that resembles a snowdrift.
Under a bore light, the bore now appears to be pretty clean with bright sharp rifling. BUT, I still get slightly dark patches when I run a clean patch through the bore. Folks believe me when I tell you that I have cleaned the H - - - out of that bore. It is finally coming to be fairly clean and the patches turn only light blue after sitting in the bore for about 10 minutes. (as opposed to turning dark purple and then bileous green)
I don't think that this rifle ever had its bore cleaned properly for copper or powder fouling.
And yet the Rooskies killed a lot of Germans with these rifles.
Any of youse got stories about how dirty your Mosey bore was?
Roger