They were all "different" in their jambs. It seems like he had to pound on the Nagant the hardest? But he jumped on the Mauser pretty hard too. I was impressed that he seemed to treat all 3 rifles equally in his torture test.For those of us who would rather not sit through 35 minutes of video, anyone care to say which one did best?
I seem to remember reading somewhere that a common battlefield cleaning of these old rifles often involved little more than pouring boiling water down the barrel.
Yes, I remember reading that the boiling water was a good deterent to the corrosive effects of corrosive primers. I guess the corrisive part of corrosive primers is basicall salt which is pretty easy to disolve in boiling water.Sill works today too -- I do this when I shoot my 5.45x39 AR & AK with corrosive surplus ammo, although you need to re-lube afterwards as the boiling water is real good at de-greasing too.
I think most WWI ammo was corrosively primed so it was more than "field expedient" to do this. Field expedient would likely be to "pee" down the barrel