Using Hoppes 9 for corrosive ammo in Mosin

[caribou]

Personally its Boiling hot water, sometimes with soap (summer) sometimes not (winter)
Rust is a no problemo thing. Do remember to lightly oil the steel after scrubbing it.
When time is short, gasoline and a brush on my rod work quite well, getting dipped directly from my tank, often while Im actually activly engauged in hunting. Im thinking it flushes lot salt outta there, and 2 cycle lube oil protects it from rusting as I ride or walk, out in chilly salt spray or foggy damp Tundra, and its always on the boat or snowgo, rod on the M-39, bore brush in the Mosin cleaning kit, in my possibles bag.

 

[Snowdog]

When I first started using Berdan/Corrosive ammunition (when I started collecting milsurp firearms) I did the whole hot soapy water routine. Many say this is the "proper" way to clean after using corrosively-primed ammunition. Perhaps accurately so.

However, years ago I switched to just using whatever window cleaner was cheapest, regardless of ammonia content (since it doesn't really matter). I'd simply spray a few patches, run them down the barrel until they came out clean, then follow up with a couple dry patches and my standard cleaning using BreakFree CLP (or again, whatever reputable similar product was on sale). Same with the bolt face and inside of the receiver.

It's a whole heck of a lot easier than using soapy water and I haven't seen a speck of rust in the decade or so I've been using this routine.

I'm not going to critique others who go the whole nine yards with the hot soapy water approach to cleaning after corrosive ammo, but I honestly don't feel it's necessarily required to stave off corrosion.

I save the hot soapy water for my BP pistols and rifles.

Edited to say: having now read the other posts on this thread, I guess the method I use isn't so unorthodox after all.

 

[plateshooter]

I use Purell hand sanitizer on a patch at the range for a quick decontamination of corrosive salts. I use it in my black powder rifles to swab between shots, and to dry any water out of my barrel after cleaning. A small bottle is easy to pack and carry in your kit, and if you take a wound, you can use it for that as well.

 

[Sav .250]

Corrosive ammo......... People still use that stuff? Is it because you want the cheapest ammo/worst ammo for your weapon that`s available or you can`t find anything else? Just asken.

 

[A freakin' lion]

I like to put the muzzle in a pot of hot water pulling the patched cleaning rod from the breech end acts like a pump drawing the water up into the bore. Afterwards clean and oil normally. Works great for blackpowder rifles also: I pull the barrel from the stock and put the breach end into the water and the rod draws water up through the touch hole or nipple. If I'm camping, I just do it in a creek, water's not hot but will get chased out with bore cleaner and seems to hose out the salts just fine.

 

[nathan]

I only use hot water from the faucet at the range after shooting corrosive. Pour it directly at the chamber down thebarrel. I use bottle water plastic so its easy to do it. Then let it drip. Once dry i proceed in using my Ed s Red Solution for the rest .NO rust and always squeaky clean.

 

[P5 Guy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windex

Isopropanol, water, and a couple of dyes for that attractive blue color.
I bring a small bottle of water to the range and leave it sit out in the sunniest spot I can find. If the RSOs are okay with it I clean right there on the bench while the barrel is still hot. Water wet patch, bore brush a few strokes, water wet patch, dry the barrel and an oily patch until I get home. I have never had rust happen following this simple routine.

 

[Sky]

I just spray the barrel down with Windex. Put the BCG and other lose parts in an aluminum turkey pan and clean and spray down with Windex. Then lube with Breakfree CLP. I have not been shooting corrosive ammo for years like many at THR have; but this method works for me on AKs, SKSs, and the AR in 7.62x39.

If I were on a hunting trip and were out in the wilderness for an extended time frame I would just poor water down the chamber filling the barrel, sloshing it around to insure the entire bore received a good bath and then repeat and finally finish up with a CLP soaked patch or bore snake. Certainly not saying that is the only way to do something just saying for me it works.

 

[ColtPythonElite]

Corrosive ammo......... People still use that stuff? Is it because you want the cheapest ammo/worst ammo for your weapon that`s available or you can`t find anything else? Just asken.

Yep, I use it because it's cheap and I stockpiled a good bit over the years. IMO, all the worry over using it and the potential for damage is largely over exaggerated. Most of the guns were designed for corrosive ammo and are decades old. If they weren't damaged way back when, they won't be now. I don't think any one way to clean the gun is the right way and others are wrong. I think that all they need is to be cleaned and all will be fine. Heck, you can even not clean them and not hurt some. My dad had a Mosin he bought for 10 bucks thrown in a closet for nearly 10 years. He shot corrosive out of it and never cleaned it. A few months ago, I got it out and ran patches thru it until they went from coming out brown to coming out clean....It took nearly a bedsheet to do it, though.LOL...After the cleaning, I took it to the range and had no problem hitting a 12" or so gong at 125 yards.

 

[surfinUSA]

Apparently, only DFarisWheel and myself have read the label of Hoppes#9. For the rest of you junior chemists out there it clearly states that it cleans corrosive ammo residue.

There is no reason to reinvent the wheel, dream up new solvents and poison your ass in the process. Hoppes has worked for decades and will do what needs to be done.

 

[Sky]

Apparently, only DFarisWheel and myself have read the label of Hoppes#9. For the rest of you junior chemists out there it clearly states that it cleans corrosive ammo residue.

hahahahaha I always told my troops words were for enlisted and pictures were for officers. It was a joke!!

I hardly ever use Hoppes#9 but I do have a few bottles. Again what ever works in your environment.

 

[Shadow 7D]

Apparently, only DFarisWheel and myself have read the label of Hoppes#9. For the rest of you junior chemists out there it clearly states that it cleans corrosive ammo residue.

There is no reason to reinvent the wheel, dream up new solvents and poison your ass in the process. Hoppes has worked for decades and will do what needs to be done.
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Um depends there are acouple of different formulas out there
the BP stuff yeah maybe, the regular stuff, not so much.