just bought a gun, question.

You'll learn to love the smell of cosmoline! It will start oozing out of the stock on warm days. You can put the wood under a dry heat source and it will all slowly drip off. Some guys use a hair dryer.
 
You'll learn to love the smell of cosmoline! It will start oozing out of the stock on warm days. You can put the wood under a dry heat source and it will all slowly drip off. Some guys use a hair dryer.

Lies, all lies, you will never get use to that ####in smell. Every gun I have is cleaned and lubed with FrogLube, including my SKS, but guess what I smell everytime I open my gun cabinet, COSMOLINE from the SKS stock.
 
You should be good then. Now, you are firing corrosive ammo, correct?

Make sure after firing you use this method:

Field Combat Method:

Urinate down barrel from breech to muzzle
Run dry patch down barrel
Use nose grease on patch to oil barrel

(Yes, that is a real method).

But you can also use boiling water or windex with ammonia in lieu of Urine.
 
Clean 'em both.
"...from the SKS stock..." Not necessarily. Soviet firearms tend to smell anyway.
Varsol/mineral spirits is your friend.
 
Just bought my first gun! A unissued Russian sks. tikka t3 in the mail. Anyways I'm wondering, do I have to do anything to the gun afteri buy it before I put bullets in and shoot it?
Youtube is full of videos on the how and whys of caring for your firearms.
 
You'll learn to love the smell of cosmoline! It will start oozing out of the stock on warm days. You can put the wood under a dry heat source and it will all slowly drip off. Some guys use a hair dryer.
Steam cleaner and flannel cloths works too!
 
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