Cleaning after corrosive ammo use

[Lovesbeer99]

I have a Yugo M48 and have put about 10 bandoliers of turkish ammo through it over about 8 shoots. (I still have about 6 bandoliers left) The gun is in great shape with no signs of corrosion. Here what I do..

Get home an start cleaning, don't wait. I prep a small bucket with hot soapy water. I use dish detergent as it rinses clean. I disassemble the bolt and magazine and drop it in the water. I then put the muzzle down in the the bucket (make sure the water is not so high that it reaches the wood) and with a patch on a patch puller I run the patch down the barrel from the breech and into the water. I pull it through a few times and change the patch and repeat. I then use a patch and swabs to clean out the chamber and all the surrounding metal parts. I then repeat the process with clean hot water. Finally I dry the gun up, then clean it with the traditional powder solvets and oil etc.

How about you?

Lovesbeer99

 

[jrfoxx]

I just remove the bolt and spray it with windex, open (or remove, depending on the gun) the magazine and spray with, then spray plenty down the barrell from the chamber end, let sit/drin a few minutes, run patches thru everything till the come out dry, then clean with Hoppe's #9 and such as normal.Havent had any trouble yet....

 

[wnycollector]

+1 for windex. I have been cleaning my mil surp rifles for 15 years with the stuff with no problems.

 

[trueblue1776]

Devils advocate

Don't bother. With my cheapies I clean them when I feel like it, contrary to popular belief corrosive ammo wont dissolve your gun on the way home from the range, the accuracy in my Nagant has not suffered and the bore is still about as nice as it was in WW2 that is with cleaning it maybe every 4th time I shoot it. I bought that gun ten years ago and still love to shoot it regularly. Some guys love to clean their guns, I don't.

 

[Thin Black Line]

Standard bore solvent w/ ammonia.

 

[trainwreck100]

I use starting fluid and WD-40...works on everything.

 

[chrisbob]

I agree w/ everything I have heard. I have used brake cleaner, hot soapy water, wd-40, nitro solvent,hoppes, and everything else available. I even let a gun sit for a month after shooting. After cleaning I dry thoroughly then oil acordingly. I haven't had any major corrosion.



The only guns I shoot corrosive ammo through are old milsurps that aren't in the greatest shape to begin with.

 

[benelli12]

another +1 for Windex, but make sure you get the windex that has the ammonia in it, because not all windex products have ammonia in them, the other ones have vineger. It will say whether it has vinegar or ammonia on the front of the bottle.

All I do with my mosins and mauser is take out the bolt, spray it completly with windex, and let set about 30 seconds, wipe off, then lube it up with oil.

For the barrel I just run 1 or 2 patches down wet with windex, and then one down wet with gun oil.

The windex remove the salts that will rust your gun and metal. The gun oil is to keep the rust away.

A VERY simple way to do it, and it works with no rust. takes all of about 2-4 minutes.

 

[Geno]

Thanks all for this thread. I have two Mosins that I purchased perhaps a month ago, a 91/30 and a 44. I have yet to fire them. I am not certain if my present ammunition from Dunhams is corrosive or not, but the ammo I ordered from Classic Arms is asserted by them to be so. Windex with ammonia. How simple can it get?

 

[_N4Z_]

Usually plain ole water flush thru the bore with a spray bottle, and then a couple soaked patches. Sometimes Windex subs for the water, but not often.

Dry patch.

WD40 spray down barrel and then a patch of same.

This is done at the range before I leave, and the WD stays in the barrel for the trip. Also spray down the bolt face in the same manner.

Get home and clean as normal with Hoppes and Mobil1 motor oil. If there's alot of copper I'll hit it with Sweets7.62.

So far, so good.

 

[dfariswheel]

To be exact, ammonia has NO, zero effect on corrosive salts.

These corrosive salts can ONLY be dissolved and flushed out by water.
Unless what you're using contains water, it CANNOT dissolve and remove the salts.
Windex works, not because it contains a little ammonia, but because it's mostly....WATER.

Ordinary tap water in a squirt bottle works as well as anything, but the Windex contains wetting agents that help get into pores and tight spots and dissolve the fouling.

 

[silverlance]

windex is especially nice not because the ammonia cleans up potass chlor, but because it is a nice detergent. cheap hoopes #9 imho.

 

[Robus]

I always heard to boil up a teapot of water and pour it down the barrel from the breech end with a funnel, then clean as normal.

 

[Spiggy]

I've been using soapy(dish-soap) windex...

And I got creative and use my M-N oiler as the carrier of said soapy windex