A strange way to clean rifle after shooting corrosive ammo?

[IBM]

Windex does seem to have a cult following. People think that the ammonia neutralizes the salts from the primer of surplus ammo.
Probably Windex is good at cutting thru the greasy residue of surplus ammo and the water in it does rinse away the salts, but hot water works better.

Followed by oiling, of course. Or if you are lazy like me, just use CLP and wipe away most of the crud while encapsulating any remaining salt.

Of course some windex doesn't actually contain ammonia anymore...

 

[gewehr76]

Good comparison!
I'm looking forward to telling someone to piss all over his salty car.

Lol , this will take few buckets of golden stuff at least

 

[woodchopper]

Lol , this will take few buckets of golden stuff at least

need to start saving it up in 4 L jugs

 

[Baal]

Who's seen one of those funnels for use in the chamber of a Lee-Enfield or those foul smelling little OD cans of water based bore cleaner that the US Army issued? Black powder or Pyrodex shooters still follow the same cleaning routine.

 

[hayday]

Hoppes #9 on everything use a small tooth brush and a narrow nylon bristle type brush/pipe cleaner for the gas port and the firing pin channel in the bolt. Then apply oil as usual. Been doing this for several years and not a spec of corrosion. Hoppes #9 is designed to clean up after using corrosive powder and/or primers.

Sorry but this is nonsense. Instead of posting weird testimonials that mean nothing, go to the kitchen, or the garage and grab whatever course salt is handy. Drop it in a tumbler, add or Hoppes 9. Count how long it takes to dissolve the salt. HINT: it never does. Repeat the same test with water, Windex, dilute Ballistol etc. Duh!!!

 

[tootall]

To build on what Hayday said, try the experiment with HOT water also.
https://www.google.ca/search?q=effe...effect+of+temperature+on+solubility+of+a+salt
(effect of temperature on solubility of a salt)

 

[Umka]

Sorry but this is nonsense. Instead of posting weird testimonials that mean nothing, go to the kitchen, or the garage and grab whatever course salt is handy. Drop it in a tumbler, add or Hoppes 9. Count how long it takes to dissolve the salt. HINT: it never does. Repeat the same test with water, Windex, dilute Ballistol etc. Duh!!!

You know there is more than one way to skin a cat :] You can call it "weird nonsense" all you want, but it works.

edit. here interesting article about using hot water vs kerosene for rifles cleaning in Imperial Russian army. Article in Russian so use Google Chrome's "translate to English" feature.
http://www.maksimov.su/in.php?tnum=...mov.su/gallery/&var=narez/kerosin/kerosin.htm

 

[MauserMike]

I use hot and soapy water. Rinse with boiling hot water so it evaporates quickly. That deals with the corrosive salts, then I just run my usual Hoppes #9 and lightly oil the bore.