If SHTF and you use corrosive ammo for hunting/home defense

[a0jc]

No offense to the OP, but if you can't find some form of liquid on this planet besides your carefully prepared clean water, you're probably won't make it too far in a SHTF scenario anyway. Therefore, I wouldn't worry about it.

 

[Milsparro]

Brush/rags down the bore and generally dry it. I suspect ammo will run out before assorted lubricants, too.

 

[Kirk930]

How about the tried and true....blood of capitalists?

 

[millwright]

Man I wish I got this many replies on some of my posts. Where is your cleaning kit Sir? Gotta a piece of string? Tie some cloth to it and pull. Lots of car and trucks seem to have lubricants in the engine compartment. Man I'm being silly.

 

[bryan.14]

... and you have to start conserving water, food, etc.

What are you going to use to clean your firearm?

Urinate down the barrel.

Seriously though.... If SHTF we should have CGN communities set up for protection lol.

 

[Richard Cranium]

^The preceeding post was in jest. I do the dishes here too.

well you certainly are doing the dishes now......

 

[molle]

Sharks with laser beams ....

 

[wnk4]

I heard windex with ammonia works.

 

[Beadwindow]

I see that the 2012 madness has begun!

To think that I forgot to consider how not only would the untreated river and lake water be too polluted for drinking, but that they'd also be so radioactive or toxic with ebola that I couldn't use it for rifle cleaning purposes.

While we're at it, how should I kill an attacking bear if the radioactivity/ebola contamination of the local water supply means that I have no water to clean out my SKS barrel afterwards? Should I just use the bayonet and preserve the rifle's bore until its time to shoot the invading zombie army?

 

[CobraGT]

This is why I bought all that non-corrosive ammo from CanAm!

 

[mlehtovaara]

I will just let the barrel rust over time. When this happens and my gun no longer shoots straight, I will simply steal yours!

Your lack of preparation and foresight into gun cleaning supplies, highlights your unpreparedness, and obvious shortcomings of your survival plan.

While you are out scouring the earth for gun cleaning solvent or a kettle to boil water, I will simply invade your camp, and take your gun, as you have obviously left it behind, as you were to scared to shoot it prior to finding appropriate cleaning supplies.

 

[Mermaniel]

Gipsy tears.

 

[Juster]

Come to think of it, when SHTF, nobody will be stockpiling Windex. The supermarket shelves will be 99% bare and scraped, but window cleaning will not be high on the agenda.

 

[saskplcguy]

Gonna pull up a chair and watch this unfold...

 

[.30/06 FTW]

Come to think of it, when SHTF, nobody will be stockpiling Windex. The supermarket shelves will be 99% bare and scraped, but window cleaning will not be high on the agenda.

You obviously haven't met my father.

 

[Ar180shooter]

... and you have to start conserving water, food, etc.

What are you going to use to clean your firearm?

Leprechaun oil, the most effective CLP in the world.

 

[Shooter1of38]

Is corrosive ammo good for bear defense?

 

[Avalonthas]

Did the russians carry a bottle of windex during there various armed conflicts? I'm pretty sure they just kept shooting...and they didn't even have the chrome lined barrels like the chinese.

You will be fine

 

[5440fight]

Gonna pull up a chair and watch this unfold...

Funny, that's my SHTF plan!

 

[collector67]

I'll shoot corrosive 'til my first SKS siezes up, then I'll move on to the other two...