Excuse me if I repeat myself again and again, but the best and quickest way to get the 100 years of crud and the black (mag) and silver (bolt) paint off this rifle is Easy Off oven cleaner. Buy the pump bottle, not the spray bomb, unless you'd like to experience Gas-Warfare-Lite2013© or feel that your bronchial passages need a good cleaning out also!
Strip the rifle down, to the bare barreled action, put all the small parts in your wife's favorite stainless steel kitchen strainer and spray generously with oven cleaner. I admit the ejector is a B to remove so I usually don't bother, just pay particular attention to washing out, drying and lubing after.
Wear proper eye protection and rubber or vinyl gloves; this stuff is caustic soda (aka sodium hydroxide)
Spray lots down the barrel too, it will take a lot to fill that long barrel. Lots in the breech around the threads too.
Now wait 20 minutes, take an old tooth brush and scrub all the cracks and crevices well. Be warned, the brush will make the stuff splatter so dress appropriately and choose your location well.
If you have a rod and bore brush, now's the time to give the bore a good brushing out. You should get lots of purple goop out: old copper deposits and who knows what else.
Wash off in very hot water, brush out the bore and rinse repeatedly. Old milsurps usually have layers and layers of deposits and corrosive primer salts built up in the bore.
Blow off with compressed air, heat gun, hair dryer WHY, or put it on top of the wood stove and let dry. Run a dry patch or two down the bore ASAP.
You can use a propane torch if you're careful as well. Get it just hot enough that no more moisture comes out. Stay away from springs or thin parts with the torch.
Spray generously with your favorite gun lubricant and wipe down.
You now have a rifle as clean as it ever was since it left the factory.
Excuse me if it seems like I'm insulting your intelligence, not intended.
Take some good before and after shots maybe?
