Urine is full of acidic, corrosive nitrogenous waste ..... you know the same stuff you are trying to clean out of the rifle. Being already full of dissolved nitrogen compounds, urine is unlikely to dissolve any further nitrogen salts and so would not only be pointless to use but probably harmful. But hey, you do you.
Cleaning the SKS in wartime situation
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Urine is full of acidic, corrosive nitrogenous waste ..... you know the same stuff you are trying to clean out of the rifle. Being already full of dissolved nitrogen compounds, urine is unlikely to dissolve any further nitrogen salts and so would not only be pointless to use but probably harmful. But hey, you do you.
we had that and clp at the end in the 80s.
its the potassium chloride or sodium chloride burnt from the primers. i have no idea how much of these are in my urine. im no chemistry expert but im better off doing something than nothing when water is scarce.
Pouring concentrated acid into your rifle is "doing something" that is definitely NOT better than doing nothing. Thus your assertion is both wrong and ludicrous on its face.
Urine is full of stuff that is most definitely NOT good for your rifle and so "doing something" that involves pouring urine into your rifle is worse than doing nothing.
The normal range for urine pH is 4.5 to 7.8, so it can be slightly acidic. Sea water is about 8. What we need here is to do a nail test with a few brands of milsurp, and a variety of urine samples, with water and engine oil comparison. Until then it is just speculation.
I have many Kilner jars of urine dating back as far as the 80s if anyone is interested.
I have many Kilner jars of urine dating back as far as the 80s if anyone is interested.
When water is short in the field and there isn't any cleaning fluid available or lubricant, the firearm is run DRY.
Military rifles are meant to be replaceable and repaired when necessary. That doesn't mean commanders don't expect the troopie to properly maintain the firearms when possible.
I've seen all sorts of firearms hastily thrown into "honey pits" without being wrapped, only to be retrieved a week or so later, to be thrown into a stream or if possible hosed down to clean out the bore/chamber/action/magazine, chamber a round and shoot the rest out. The firearms came out of this rusty, dirty and reliably shootable.
Field conditions are the factor that controls cleaning and lubrication.
If it can be done and the user is well trained it will be done. Otherwise??? Does that mean the firearm will be unserviceable in the field when needed, not even a little bit.
Firearms in the field, under stressful conditions are DISCARDED when they don't go bang and the nearest replacement is picked up from the dead or dropped in the confusion, which always happens after the first incoming round is noticed.
Military rifles are meant to be replaceable and repaired when necessary. That doesn't mean commanders don't expect the troopie to properly maintain the firearms when possible.
I've seen all sorts of firearms hastily thrown into "honey pits" without being wrapped, only to be retrieved a week or so later, to be thrown into a stream or if possible hosed down to clean out the bore/chamber/action/magazine, chamber a round and shoot the rest out. The firearms came out of this rusty, dirty and reliably shootable.
Field conditions are the factor that controls cleaning and lubrication.
If it can be done and the user is well trained it will be done. Otherwise??? Does that mean the firearm will be unserviceable in the field when needed, not even a little bit.
Firearms in the field, under stressful conditions are DISCARDED when they don't go bang and the nearest replacement is picked up from the dead or dropped in the confusion, which always happens after the first incoming round is noticed.
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I'd be happy to have an sks in my hands over 90% of what is currently available for the reason of pure and utter reliability. Nothing can touch the sks there. Throw a red dot on it and welcome to the new millennium.
I served in the CF and I've personally seen soldiers doing really stupid ####. Thats not a standard anyone should want to emulate. In fact, it might be suggested that if a soldier did it, you should not.
i remember the discussions after the wars in ex-yugoslavia and most of the people i met agreed with you. they preferred the sks over the ak47 for one simple reason: magazine ... they surrender or sold the ak47 given to the them at the tim and kept the sks.
