Showering with your rifle?

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Hey guys, new member here but not a new shooter. So there's a trick we use in the army to get our weapons spotless (and I mean army inspection clean) after a day at the range. We hop in the shower and try to get as much steam built up as possible and theres no doubt in my mind it's breaks carbon up beautifully but my question is what are some possible negative effects? I also ask because i have done it myself with my sks and m14 but only once when they were new and packed with cosmoline followed by complete drying and oiling of course, now just normal cleaning it is. Just interested in your guys 2 cents, thanks
 
Lulz....the dishwasher thread :)

this is how I remove cosmoline...simply because I can :p

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lol, showering with guns huh..

trolls get worse every time

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During Battle School, we didn't shower with our rifles but we did with the crew served weapons. For the rifles, we just got the water tap as hot as possible and ran the water over the upper and lower recievers. Then dryed and oiled immediately.

In the shower it was pretty much the same except we cleaned the GPMG, C-9 and Carl-G. We also used a Dustbane hand cleaner (green goop ) to help get the tough carbon off.

Of course we had about 30 troops that assisted each other with all the cleaning, drying, re-oiling and scrubbing.

Cheers
 
Laundry tub, scouring powder and hot water were our friends during Battle School at Wainwright!

A picture from the past! Oh to be young and foolish again....

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There's the quonset hut we lived in back in the days of the FNC1A1 :D

Cheers,
Barney
 
TheArmyMan204 said:
Hey guys, new member here but not a new shooter. So there's a trick we use in the army to get our weapons spotless (and I mean army inspection clean) after a day at the range. We hop in the shower and try to get as much steam built up as possible and theres no doubt in my mind it's breaks carbon up beautifully but my question is what are some possible negative effects? I also ask because i have done it myself with my sks and m14 but only once when they were new and packed with cosmoline followed by complete drying and oiling of course, now just normal cleaning it is. Just interested in your guys 2 cents, thanks
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I've been in a while now and I've never heard or seen anyone take their rifle into the shower as you say? :confused:
I know I built up a lot of carbon after firing a whopping total of 30 rounds on a PWT after a "day on the range".
Use hot water in an old cooking pot for corrosive, then soak all bits in eds red and wipe clean.
 
Haha no I'm not single, the woman does find it extremely odd that I'd shower with gun and not her though. And what is a troll? i don't believe I am one haha. I've never showered with my rifle in the army, just the c9 and c6 and even then, only after they've been through 1000+ rounds.
 
Travis Bickle said:
I've been in a while now and I've never heard or seen anyone take their rifle into the shower as you say? :confused:
I know I built up a lot of carbon after firing a whopping total of 30 rounds on a PWT after a "day on the range".
Use hot water in an old cooking pot for corrosive, then soak all bits in eds red and wipe clean.
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You've only fired 30 rounds at a range? I'm going to assume you weren't in the infantry, nothing like a live fire platoon or company attack, probably the most fun you can have at a "range"
 
90yjgimp said:
During Battle School, we didn't shower with our rifles but we did with the crew served weapons. For the rifles, we just got the water tap as hot as possible and ran the water over the upper and lower recievers. Then dryed and oiled immediately.

In the shower it was pretty much the same except we cleaned the GPMG, C-9 and Carl-G. We also used a Dustbane hand cleaner (green goop ) to help get the tough carbon off.

Of course we had about 30 troops that assisted each other with all the cleaning, drying, re-oiling and scrubbing.

Cheers
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Heck, we had to clean everything but our C7 up and put everything back in the QM before even thinking of hitting the showers!
 
Showered with C7 and C9. Used floor mop wash basin to hose them out too.

Live ammo isn't bad. It's the cake that builds up after alot of blanks were you want to start cleaning this way.;) Just make sure you dry, oil and clean right after.
 
I never felt the need to shower with my C7 or C8, regular old cleaning and sometimes a varsol bath worked just fine.
 
I was in the same shacks as Hungry was in that pic and around the same time too (1976).....Im old..lol The Ol Quanset huts of Wainwright ....yahoo
I never got in the shower with my FN but did use the shower a few times to clean all the mud and crap out of it.
 
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