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The Problem -
Lately I've been noticing something in my M1 Garand bore. When I shine a light in my safe, doing a spot check, I saw an orange stripe at the end of it. I didn't think much of it, figuring that it might be copper in the rifling, and I left it for a while.
Today I got it out and decided to investigate further. I think that my worst fears are being confirmed. I'm fairly certain it's rust. I don't know how far it goes, but I know it's near the muzzle. The stripes I've seen are in between the rifling, along with some other spots.
How did this happen?
I think it's due to a careless mistake I made. A long time ago I oiled all my rifle barrels with a patch soaked in Breakfree Collector, one after another, with the same patch.
However, I also swabbed my mosin-nagant, which came out almost entirely spotless. But, it might be possible that some leftover corrosive salts tainted the patch and left the situation I'm dealing with.
What I'm doing now -
I've been wiping it with Hoppes 9 soaked patches, which came out dirty at first, and alternating with a bore brush I dipped in solvent, and finishing with a dry patch in a cyclic fashion. I've actually gotten a fair amount of copper out, but what looks like rust spots remain so far. On the other hand, I haven't gotten any reddish patches out like I'd expect. I did however, remove a significant concentration of cosmoline that was piled up a few inches in on my first pass.
I'm probably going to run out and buy some copper-removing solvent, but in the meantime, I have a few questions.
1. Am I doing the right thing? What should I do?
2. If this is rust in the bore, am I screwed? Will it ruin my gun?
Lately I've been noticing something in my M1 Garand bore. When I shine a light in my safe, doing a spot check, I saw an orange stripe at the end of it. I didn't think much of it, figuring that it might be copper in the rifling, and I left it for a while.
Today I got it out and decided to investigate further. I think that my worst fears are being confirmed. I'm fairly certain it's rust. I don't know how far it goes, but I know it's near the muzzle. The stripes I've seen are in between the rifling, along with some other spots.
How did this happen?
I think it's due to a careless mistake I made. A long time ago I oiled all my rifle barrels with a patch soaked in Breakfree Collector, one after another, with the same patch.
However, I also swabbed my mosin-nagant, which came out almost entirely spotless. But, it might be possible that some leftover corrosive salts tainted the patch and left the situation I'm dealing with.
What I'm doing now -
I've been wiping it with Hoppes 9 soaked patches, which came out dirty at first, and alternating with a bore brush I dipped in solvent, and finishing with a dry patch in a cyclic fashion. I've actually gotten a fair amount of copper out, but what looks like rust spots remain so far. On the other hand, I haven't gotten any reddish patches out like I'd expect. I did however, remove a significant concentration of cosmoline that was piled up a few inches in on my first pass.
I'm probably going to run out and buy some copper-removing solvent, but in the meantime, I have a few questions.
1. Am I doing the right thing? What should I do?
2. If this is rust in the bore, am I screwed? Will it ruin my gun?