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Gil Martin Super Member
Joined: Jan 28, 2005 Posts: 1837 Location: Schnecksville, PA
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Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2019 4:10 pm Post subject: Cleaning military bores |
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Just curious about your experiences in cleaning the bores of military arms that appear to be dark, neglected, rusted or whatever. My experiences have been mixed especially when working on military arms that may have been shot with corrosive ammo and not properly cleaned. When the bores look like an old water pipe they are usually too far gone to be cleaned up and rebarreling may be cost prohibitive. I have had some amazing results cleaning up a few bores that seemed rusted and pitted, but were actually coated with old gun grease and just very dirty. What have you found to be the case? All the best...
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Elvis Super Member
Joined: Jul 27, 2008 Posts: 9239 Location: south island New Zealand
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Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2019 10:55 pm Post subject: Re: Cleaning military bores |
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boil the jug and pour down the bore.... then clean
or plug muzzle with rag and fill bore with CRC lube type aerosol leave over night ...then clean
some really crappy looking bores still shoot quite well all thing considered.
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Gil Martin Super Member
Joined: Jan 28, 2005 Posts: 1837 Location: Schnecksville, PA
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Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2019 4:27 pm Post subject: Re: Cleaning military bores |
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Elvis,
Good points. I have seen very dark bores that still performed well with cast bullets. So it depends, you win some and you lose some. All the best...
Gil
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PaulS Super Member
Joined: Feb 18, 2006 Posts: 4330 Location: South-Eastern Washington - the State
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Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2019 10:43 pm Post subject: Re: Cleaning military bores |
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I remember my dad using paint thinner to clean the 3006 when he got it. He got it through the CMP and it was packed in cosmoline. At the time I was very young - 3 or 4 years old and it seemed to take a long time. Mom didn't like the smell so he took it all down stairs into the basement. I watched him clean every part of that rifle. It had been issued in 1942 so it wasn't a new rifle but it can still shoot sub MOA groups at 200 yards.
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slimjim Super Member
Joined: May 16, 2009 Posts: 8314 Location: Fort Worth TX
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Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2019 6:58 am Post subject: Re: Cleaning military bores |
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My CMP 30-06 M1 had a new barrel put on it by the CMP and I could only shoot 8" groups at 100 yards with Federal Match ammo. I sent it to a retired Army amorer who did the rifles for the Army Rife Team. It now shoots 1 moa but I can't get the gun apart to clean it. Must be bedded pretty well.
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