Crap! Corrosive ammo in M1 Garand, now what?

[D.B. Cooper]

PS is non-corrosive, I gave a 50 Cal can to my Dad because of that. I have dozens of 30 and 50 cal cans of the KA, shoots good but has a corrosive primer. I used to shoot reduced 100 yard matches with a stock Garand, worked fine. Whatever goop got on your rifle wasn't related to corrosive primers, you're good to go. You can reload both PS and KA brass, by the way, just swish the KA brass in hot water before you do anything else. No more of a pain in the ass than reloading LC or other USGI brass, complete with a crimp you'll need to get rid of.

Yeah, the only reason I bought it was it was cheap and reloadable. (Not that I'm set up to reload but you never know what the future holds.)

I've also just bought a bunch of PPU M-1 Garand specific ammo I'm going to try out, too.

 

[Maj Dad]

I don't shoot it in my Garands because I don't like to put them at risk, but they were designed for chlorate primers (which are very stable and why they are used so much all over the world). I shoot a lot of it in Mausers, Enfields, and anything else I take a notion to, and I use Ballistol mixed roughly half & half (way more than is needed: recommendations are 1 in 10 Ballistol to water) to clean the chloride residue. The Germans developed it prior to WW1, and are still using it as far as I know. It's also the cat's meow for cleaning black powder fouling, and for lubing patches, treating leather (really), and anything else you want to spiff up. It's kind of amazing - check it out

 

[ford8nr]

Ugly bore rifles can be surprisingly accurate,

That was my point.
I wouldn't go out out my way to buy one on a chance, but I wouldn't condemn one based purely on looks.
In the Vintage matches it's amazing how beat up some of these old rifles are and how well they shoot. Matches are 50 rds at 100yds off a bag, iron sights. Most target backers after 2 matches (100 rds) are just one big ragged 3-4" hole.

 

[GBExpat]

Ugly bore rifles can be surprisingly accurate

That was my point.

Yeah, I think that we all got that, as the opening line in your initial post was:

Except for 'real' match level shooting don't condem a rusty barrel as bad.

 

[P5 Guy]

I've never worried about corrosive ammo. As long as the RSOs let me run a couple of water wet patches down the bore on the firing line I will just after I'm done shooting. If not I clean as soon as I get home. Hot water on a few patches, run the bore brush a couple of times to loosen any fouling. Dry the bore and oil lightly. Never has there been a problem.
And when the corrosive is in doubt I just follow the above cleaning routine.
I'm talking about my M1 Garands and other bolt and semi-auto firearms.

 

[Maj Dad]

If you ever run across the little O.D. 2 oz cans of WW2 issue (prob Korean war, too) bore cleaner, it was designed to clean corrosive residue, and you won't have any issues if you use it. I found a case of 144 about 30 years ago for $7-$8 and snapped it up - still using it. One thing to note: when we cleaned our M1/M14s after firing (pre-M16), we cleaned them for 3 days is a row so as to get any corrosive residue that exudes from the metal pores/micro cracks. Wasn't really necessary with NC primers but the Army makes course corrections like a super tanker.