MFS - "NON" Corrosive. Yeah. Good one. SKS-D is rusted up, help?

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I uhh... have this *cough* "friend", yeah... a friend who shot a bunch of MFS "Non-Corrosive" 7.62 with his SKS-D, sprayed some Ballistol down the barrel, ran a boresnake through it a couple times, and then forgot about it in his gunsafe for a week or two... This is normally fine with the Glock, and he keeps the safe well stocked with fresh dessicants...

I say friend because it certainly wasn't me. Really. Ok fine, it was me.

Anyway, it looks like there was a corrosive primer or two, or many in the batch of ammo, and now there's beautiful (or horrifying) rust blooms on multiple surfaces of the firing pin assembly/bolt. Barrel's spotless, there was only a couple flecks of rust in the gas system, it's just the bolt/pin assembly that's really affected (nothing on the pin itself though, I took it out and it looks to be fine).

Did I just screw myself into having to get a new bolt/assembly, or can I bust out the fine sandpaper and buff the rust out without issue? Figured I'd ask before doing anything potentially retarded as I'm having a pretty "special" month already and don't need a KB or something when I hit the range.
 
Your bore is fine because the chinese crome them......your chamber isn't cromed though so might want to give it a scrub as well.
 
Yah don't forget to do the smaller gas piston as well the one under the rear sight...gasses creep into almost every area of these rifles.

I use those little aluminum loaf pans from Superstore as cheap parts soak tanks. Be real clear which end is/was up when you put the firing pin back in.
 
Strangely the chamber's clean of rust, as is the gas rod. There was a fleck of orange around the piece where the gas tube connects to the barrel, but that's it. The bolt got the worst of it... :(
 
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