best way to clean my new mosin barrel

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i got a new 91/30 yesterday from westrifles, the rifle i think is very good for a war time mosin, only 135 shipped. i ordered it monday afternoon and had it wednesday morning, shipped from vancouver to red deer,ab.

anyways my question is what is the best way to clean the barrel i have cleaned and scrubbed it quite a bit but their is still dirty patches coming out.

thanks
 
Get a decent solvent. Ed's Red is what I use and I can get moderately clean patches with any of my rifles after enough work.
A 7.62mm bore brush.
Spray/pour the solvent down the barrel. Let it sit for a couple hours.
Go at it with the bore brush.
Run some patches through to pull the crud out.
Do the whole thing over if it's still really bad.
That would be a good start.
 
I have found butches bore shine to be great

It stinks though so open the window. it pulls out crud that nothing else i have used will touch.
 
pattycr125 said:
i got a new 91/30 yesterday from westrifles, the rifle i think is very good for a war time mosin, only 135 shipped. i ordered it monday afternoon and had it wednesday morning, shipped from vancouver to red deer,ab.

anyways my question is what is the best way to clean the barrel i have cleaned and scrubbed it quite a bit but their is still dirty patches coming out.

thanks
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If still seems dirty after cleaning, a good shooting can loosen even more crap out of it, making subsequent cleaning easier. Ofc all depend of the bore condition.

Jocelyn
 
Try using an actual bore solvent for copper fouling. Ed's Red works great , but won't remove copper. Buy a heavy bore solvent and watch how much crap can come out of a barrel. Many bores are dark to begin with, so if it doesn't clean out bright and shiny, just slug the bore and oversize your bullet by 1/1000. It can still shoot very well.
 
Skip all of the nasty solvents and go with a good foaming bore cleaner. Any gun store worth a damn has some in stock. I use gunslick, and I swear by it. I stopped using my electrolysis set up after I tried a can of the stuff. It will dissolve carbon and copper deposits.

Just spray it in, wait 30 minutes, clean as usual.

Works every time.
 
Take her appart, treat every metallic part to a liberal dose of brake cleaner and paper towels .... Once every metallic part is squeaky clean liberally oil everything up and put everything back together ....

Then proceed to shoot the living crap out of her since she has preciely ZERO "coollectible" value .....

By the way a collector gun is like a fine painting, something that you buy and then hang on the wall and pretty much forget about.

What good is a gun you're afraid to fire in order to not depreciate it's perceived "value" ?

To me it's not worth the value in scrap metal and wood .... Others may differ.
 
Tyler said:
Skip all of the nasty solvents and go with a good foaming bore cleaner. Any gun store worth a damn has some in stock. I use gunslick, and I swear by it. I stopped using my electrolysis set up after I tried a can of the stuff. It will dissolve carbon and copper deposits.

Just spray it in, wait 30 minutes, clean as usual.

Works every time.
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Ha. I'm gonna have to get some of that stuff...:)
 
fiddler said:
Foaming bore cleaner is not at nasty solvent?


Someone skipped their chemistry class, but I won't say who :rolleyes:
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:rolleyes:

Someone needs to look up 'pedantic' in the dictionary.... but I won't say who. ;)

cantom said:
Ha. I'm gonna have to get some of that stuff...:)
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Give it a shot! Because the solvent is in foam form, it is much easier to use and clean up after. I just up-end the rifle and let everything drip out onto a few layers of paper towel, with an old shopping bag underneath. I no longer use liquid solvents. Too messy.

I only use it for major cleanings every few hundred rounds and whenever I get a 'new' milsurp. It's a satisfying sight seeing all of the black and blue ooze come dripping out of a 'clean' bore without a hundred swipes of a bore brush.
 
I use "Butch's" bore cleaner. I got it at Italian in Vancouver. I do it outside because this stuff has bad fumes.
It turned what I thought was a dark bore on my new Mosin into a shiny shiny one. Then a light oiling.
 
i went to canadian tire today (no gun stores open) and no foaming stuff to be found but they did have the butch's (amazingly) so i got a bottle and i'll test it out later and post my results
 
It doesn't matter what you use, its all nasty and should be done in well vented areas. The hot water trick works ok for residue that is water soluable, but does little for metallic build up. I don't care for using solvents and avoid them as much as possible. However when you obtain a new milsurp and have no idea of its history, its not a bad thing to start with a clean slate ( or bore). Even on a good gun, every several years or so is good to take out the copper fouling.
 
so about 50 swipes of the bore brush, 1/3 bottle of butchs, and 100 patches later my barrel is finally clean, patches still come out a tiny bit of grey/blue on them but are no longer filthy black, i guess its just a little bit of gunk left in the very minor pitting but that could also just be a rough finish considering it is 69 years old and made in the middle of WW2 i can't tell, but i'm happy with it rifling is good as far as i can tell
 
Just remember that the thng was made during a war, likely pressed quickly into service ... And was held by a number of young boys whom depended on her for their lives, only to get killed as a result.

Every one of those specs of black, blue and green is a dead German.

pattycr125 said:
so about 50 swipes of the bore brush, 1/3 bottle of butchs, and 100 patches later my barrel is finally clean, patches still come out a tiny bit of grey/blue on them but are no longer filthy black, i guess its just a little bit of gunk left in the very minor pitting but that could also just be a rough finish considering it is 69 years old and made in the middle of WW2 i can't tell, but i'm happy with it rifling is good as far as i can tell
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Chumlee Bumsnag said:
Whatever you do, don't breathe this stuff in. If you do , you'll feel a brain cell fry buzz similiar to shrooms in the 70's.
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hey, don't knock shrooms or the 70's. I was a-f*cking-mazed the other day. I was able to remember the title AND author of a book I read in the early 70's. So much for the theory that drugs can destroy brain cells. Where was I??? Oh yeah, so much for the theory that drugs destroy brain cells.
 
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