Tonight I had one of those moments that reveals just how far gone I am when it comes to shooting.
I had gone to the range with a guy I know. He had a pair of Saiga .308s that I wanted to try out, and I let him shoot a Garand in return.
I like the Saiga. I especially like the 22 inch barrel version more than the 16 inch version.
We also both had CZ-52s to play with.
So we shot up a box of Romanian 7.62X25mammo I had, and I knew I had to clean the barrel soon to prevent corrosion.
The other guy had borrowed his CZ from his lazy brother, and it had been fired with corrosive ammo and never, ever, ever cleaned. The rust gleamed bright red in the bore of that one. Yikes.
So I shot my CZ, and planned on a good Windexing and cleaning as soon as I got home. Only I called home, and found out a friend of ours was in town and taking me and the wife out to dinner.
I was glad to go, but halfway to the resturaunt, I realized that we would be there for hours, and all that time, my CZ would be merrily rusting in the truck.
So when I got to the Chinese buffet place, I discreetly disassembled the CZ-52 in the truck and slipped the barrel into my jeans pocket.
Then, I went in, got a table for three, ordered my drink, and slipped back to the restroom.
In the restroom, I ran the hot water in the sink until it got too hot for me to put my fingers under the stream. Then I capped the muzzle of the barrel with my thumb and held the chamber end under the soft soap dispenser, and pumped it full of soap.
Then I put the chamber end under the hot water, and filled it, and capped that end with my forefinger, and shook vigorously.
I repeated and rinsed several times, all the while hoping nobody came into the restroom while I was washing corrosive salts out of a pistol barrel.
I dried it off as best I could with paper towels from the towel roll, put it back into my pocket, and enjoyed a good meal and good visit with a friend I had not seen in over a year.
When I got home, I cleaned and oiled it and voila....good as new.
So I created a new category tonight......
If you've ever secretly cleaned a CZ-52 barrel (or any other gun part, for that matter) in the restroom of a Chinese buffet place, then you just might be a gun nut...............
hillbilly
I had gone to the range with a guy I know. He had a pair of Saiga .308s that I wanted to try out, and I let him shoot a Garand in return.
I like the Saiga. I especially like the 22 inch barrel version more than the 16 inch version.
We also both had CZ-52s to play with.
So we shot up a box of Romanian 7.62X25mammo I had, and I knew I had to clean the barrel soon to prevent corrosion.
The other guy had borrowed his CZ from his lazy brother, and it had been fired with corrosive ammo and never, ever, ever cleaned. The rust gleamed bright red in the bore of that one. Yikes.
So I shot my CZ, and planned on a good Windexing and cleaning as soon as I got home. Only I called home, and found out a friend of ours was in town and taking me and the wife out to dinner.
I was glad to go, but halfway to the resturaunt, I realized that we would be there for hours, and all that time, my CZ would be merrily rusting in the truck.
So when I got to the Chinese buffet place, I discreetly disassembled the CZ-52 in the truck and slipped the barrel into my jeans pocket.
Then, I went in, got a table for three, ordered my drink, and slipped back to the restroom.
In the restroom, I ran the hot water in the sink until it got too hot for me to put my fingers under the stream. Then I capped the muzzle of the barrel with my thumb and held the chamber end under the soft soap dispenser, and pumped it full of soap.
Then I put the chamber end under the hot water, and filled it, and capped that end with my forefinger, and shook vigorously.
I repeated and rinsed several times, all the while hoping nobody came into the restroom while I was washing corrosive salts out of a pistol barrel.
I dried it off as best I could with paper towels from the towel roll, put it back into my pocket, and enjoyed a good meal and good visit with a friend I had not seen in over a year.
When I got home, I cleaned and oiled it and voila....good as new.
So I created a new category tonight......
If you've ever secretly cleaned a CZ-52 barrel (or any other gun part, for that matter) in the restroom of a Chinese buffet place, then you just might be a gun nut...............
hillbilly
