I miss Cosmoline.

[hso]

See if that helps. https://www.cosmolinedirect.com/cosmoline-greases/

 

[vzenmn]

Here are a few more pics. 1942 B barrel. She cleaned up to be a very handsome rifle and great shooter. It is still my favorite discovery in a Milsurp.






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That is a beautiful Fin. I had one with the reciever dated 1896. And reading up on the Winter War will cost you hours of time.
And they make great war movies

 

[Austin Albright]

I was digging around some boxes a found a an old mosin oil bottle with the inside stuffed with the gunk.
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Wish I could go back to when you couldn't go down a single aisle at a gunshow without getting a whiff of that smell. Walk in with $200 dollars and walk out with a Mosin , 440 rd spam can of ammo and still have enough money left for Whataburger meal and a case of beer and still have change.Then spend the whole night and most of the next day trying to get just half of that greasy goop off your new milsurp. With failure. The first time or two you shoot it the gun sweats cosmoline like a hooker in church.

Wish I had a 55 gallon drum full of the stuff just so I can dunk random guns in it and clean it off again.

"sweats cosmoline like a hooker in church" I'm stealing that one.
Now I just have to go clean my monitor screen as I just spit coffee all over it.