Deep cleaning a Mosin barrel.... OH COME ON ! ! ! !

[mwjones]

I have a permanently fouled mosin too, I think Bought it for $125 and wasn't expectign anything spectacular. Stock repair, a little bit of surface rust, and a bore thal looked liek a sewer pipe. I spent DAYS (literally days) cleaning.

Ran a wet patch, couple passes of the brust, then mor ewet patches until they came clean. Check the bore, and the lands are nice and shiny and smooth. The grooves are relatively rough and non reflective. So, run a wet brush, then a patch, and there's literally chunks of black stuff that come out on the patch.

I ran the brush probably 40 times over a weekend, went through literally hundreds of patches (had to go to the fabric store and buy more white cotton flannel), even plugged the chamber and filled the barrel with solvent to soak overnight 3 times. Went through a whole bottle of hoppes no 9, and about a half litre of eds red, and ym patches are still coming out with chunky black crud. I gave up.

Took it to the range and shot it, and lo and behold, it will shoot pop cans at 100 yards probably 4/5 with irons. I guess if it ain't broke....

 

[Pcahill]

I used to clean my P14 down to bare metal every time I shot it. However I couldnt hit paper with it for at least five rounds the next time I shot it. Now I just give it a quick scrub with Eds Red and away it goes. Its now accurate the first shot and has remained so for 200+ rounds even with what I'm assuming to be copper fouling. So at least for me cleaning less proved to be the best. It has "frosted" grooves but smooth lands.