Here is how to clean after corrosive ammo

[Enfield trader]

You use the funnel and boiling water ............

 

[CanAm]

great picture

 

[eltorro]

awesome

 

[Calum]

What are the muzzles resting on?

 

[BBq_Woa!]

enemy prisoners

 

[green]

Guy on the left is holding rifle properly by butt in case boiling water spills.

 

[Curtton]

nice pic but how about some more info, which army? and why would they use corrosive ammo? and do they use them now?

 

[Andy]

nice pic but how about some more info, which army? and why would they use corrosive ammo? and do they use them now?

That's an old picture - taken a couple of years ago in Kazakhstan with their experimental musket. They use corrosive because it allows them to make use of their excellent potassium reserves and stings real bad when it hits Gypsies.

 

[Cam_S]

That's an old picture - taken a couple of years ago in Kazakhstan with their experimental musket. They use corrosive because it allows them to make use of their excellent potassium reserves and stings real bad when it hits Gypsies.

HAHA,

In reality they are from the Great War era. They are either British or Commonwealth troops from the uniforms. Also they are either Cavalry or Artillery by the use of the Ammo Belt.

Unfortunatly due to the quality of the picture, you can not tell the regiment or specific country.

The rifles they are holding are Lee Enfield No 1 Mk 3. The funnel was a special funnel desgned for them. So to answer your question, the funnels are not used today. As for the Ammo, all War time, either WW1 or WW2 ammo was corrosive for all countries. It was much cheaper to produce that non-corrosive.

Cam

 

[JHC-II]

re corrosive ammo

So is it really necessary to use boiling water after using corrosive ammo????

 

[SIGP2101]

No, NO , NO you got it all wrong. What that picture shows is the only proper way of making filter coffee during the WWI days. We all know that they did not have coffee makers at that time. Solder sock was used as filter.

 

[eltorro]

That's an old picture - taken a couple of years ago in Kazakhstan with their experimental musket. They use corrosive because it allows them to make use of their excellent potassium reserves and stings real bad when it hits Gypsies.

yeah.... Mr. Borat.

 

[Skippy]

So is it really necessary to use boiling water after using corrosive ammo????

Not nowadays. That is simply the way the commonwealth armies showed their soldiers how to do it. They wouldn't have had particularly good facilities in the field for any thing more "high-tech".


And good call on holding it by the butt
I'd laugh to watch someone curse and drop their rifle after pouring it down the side.

 

[Claven2]

That's an old picture - taken a couple of years ago in Kazakhstan with their experimental musket. They use corrosive because it allows them to make use of their excellent potassium reserves and stings real bad when it hits Gypsies.

BEST - ANSWER - EVER.

 

[eltorro]

are there Gypsies in Kazakhstan?

 

[slicknick]

There's gypsies everywhere, who just have to know how to find them

 

[Curtton]

the funnel is big enuff to double as a helmet ..... not.

thanks CAM S for the info but realisticly do governement expect their soldiers to clean their rifles like that during battle? if i know soldiers they will just do the minimum.

 

[Proutfoo]

That's an old picture - taken a couple of years ago in Kazakhstan with their experimental musket. They use corrosive because it allows them to make use of their excellent potassium reserves and stings real bad when it hits Gypsies.

HIGH FIVE!

man I got to see that movie!

 

[Skippy]

the funnel is big enuff to double as a helmet ..... not.

thanks CAM S for the info but realisticly do governement expect their soldiers to clean their rifles like that during battle? if i know soldiers they will just do the minimum.

They don't need to do it while under fire, but they'd definatly do it while deployed in the field. Not everytime they fire but as regularly as they could I'd expect.

WHen your life depends on how well yoru rifle functions, you might be inclined to do more than the bare minimum.

 

[GrantR]

... but realisticly do governement expect their soldiers to clean their rifles like that during battle? if i know soldiers they will just do the minimum.

That's why the chap who is likely an NCO is standing there on the left - to make them do it!

Also this would certainly not be something done "during battle" - but always after musketry practice ... and "as soon as possible" following firing in the field.

FWIW, this is exactly what one of these funnels looks like (apologies for the lens distortion making the ruler appear curved ... )