Not offended in the least.
Once yearly cleaning of SKS
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Not offended in the least.
I had a guy buy my SKS afew years ago who never cleaned his first one because someone told him Windex would take care of it...... Well...... That was not true, hence why he was buying my SKS after his rusted shut and he couldn't take anything apart...
It WILL rust to #### at one point. The one day your house gets abit damp or your rifle collects moisture.
It WILL rust to #### at one point. The one day your house gets abit damp or your rifle collects moisture.
Funny, I cleaned one of my SKS rifles today, too. Well, last night, and today I took it to the range. This rifle has a Leupold VX1 on it, and has always been pretty accurate with it.
The reason I cleaned it is because it had started shooting erratically. I only use non corrosive ammo in it because I don't want to clean that often. But it had been about 2 months and 3000 rounds, so I thought that maybe it wasn't shooting well due to it being dirty and as it's transported in a plywood box, gets kicked around alot and often gets wet- maybe the crown got damaged, too.
So I took it apart, cleaned it well, recrowned with a Brownells crowning tool and put it back together. Damn that barrel is HARD as the crowning tool just didnt' cut too well!
Hit the range, and it was still erratic. Damn! This rifle only had about 7000 or 8000 rounds through it - was it shot out already??? Better check the scope.
I plunked a cheap Bushnell spare scope onto it and after getting on paper, bangbangbang. 3 shot group. 1.25" at 100M
Wish I had checked the scope first, would have saved me all that damn cleaning!
The reason I cleaned it is because it had started shooting erratically. I only use non corrosive ammo in it because I don't want to clean that often. But it had been about 2 months and 3000 rounds, so I thought that maybe it wasn't shooting well due to it being dirty and as it's transported in a plywood box, gets kicked around alot and often gets wet- maybe the crown got damaged, too.
So I took it apart, cleaned it well, recrowned with a Brownells crowning tool and put it back together. Damn that barrel is HARD as the crowning tool just didnt' cut too well!
Hit the range, and it was still erratic. Damn! This rifle only had about 7000 or 8000 rounds through it - was it shot out already??? Better check the scope.
I plunked a cheap Bushnell spare scope onto it and after getting on paper, bangbangbang. 3 shot group. 1.25" at 100M
Wish I had checked the scope first, would have saved me all that damn cleaning!
p.Rundle
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Funny, I cleaned one of my SKS rifles today, too. Well, last night, and today I took it to the range. This rifle has a Leupold VX1 on it, and has always been pretty accurate with it.
The reason I cleaned it is because it had started shooting erratically. I only use non corrosive ammo in it because I don't want to clean that often. But it had been about 2 months and 3000 rounds, so I thought that maybe it wasn't shooting well due to it being dirty and as it's transported in a plywood box, gets kicked around alot and often gets wet- maybe the crown got damaged, too.
So I took it apart, cleaned it well, recrowned with a Brownells crowning tool and put it back together. Damn that barrel is HARD as the crowning tool just didnt' cut too well!
Hit the range, and it was still erratic. Damn! This rifle only had about 7000 or 8000 rounds through it - was it shot out already??? Better check the scope.
I plunked a cheap Bushnell spare scope onto it and after getting on paper, bangbangbang. 3 shot group. 1.25" at 100M
Wish I had checked the scope first, would have saved me all that damn cleaning!
it shot better with a bushnell than a leupold? what kind of parallel universe is this
I believe he's saying the rifle isn't going to rust away in record time, Which everyone here seems to think will happen.
I own 4 sks's Non have ever seen boiling water or windex or anything like that, Just whatever solvent I happen to have on hand at the time and none have ever had rust anywhere on them.
I've even waited weeks before cleaning(I thought I cleaned it and turned out I didn't) Still no rust.
I guess I could thank a dry environment?
No, it shot very well with the Leupold until the Leupold went kaput!
I have many Leupolds, and they are tough scopes, but not immune to failure. I've sent a few for service over the years...Along with leica, Swaro, Ziess, B&L, Bushnell and others.
But that I have so much trust in Leupolds is what made me suspect the rifle before looking at the scope. And it turned out to be the scope that was the issue, and not the rifle.
Exactly. I bought my first SKS rifles in the early 1990s (5 for $75 each) and there was lots of Norinco silver box non corrosive ammo around, so we all shot that for years. Then we bought spam cans of corrosive, but we never really knew about corrosive ammo, as there was no internet then. We shot lots of it and never had our rifles turn into rust buckets, despite not ever cleaning with hot water or windex.
Now that I know more about corrosive ammo, I would suggest the proper treatment, but it worked for us.
A buddy of mine gave me his SKS to clean after he fired a box of corrosive ammo through it and threw it in a closet for 8 years. Piston was seized in the gas tube, and rust was everywhere. I managed to free the piston, but it left a nice ring in the tube. I bet it was a single shot carbine after that....
There's no evidence of neglect.
I've done the clean immediately, then use boiling water. I've even got a funnel I modified for the task.
Got tired of spending more time cleaning it than shooting it. Going forward it is just going to get a bore snake and the gas tube swabbed out.
I'm confident it isn't going to rust away.
Windex with amonia sprayed in the barrel , run bore snake , and other parts will clean and remove any salts , do it after shooting anytime , doesn't take long to pop that gun apart and clean the whole thing , oil afterwards, done , it'll last for many years , cleaning off cosmoline, mineral spirits , on the whole gun , won't damage the wood or metal , works great
i got an sks in a trade that had clearly seen corrosive ammo and not cleaned properly. After i hit the barrel over a couple days and shone a light in it, the clean chrome looks like a fat lady's ass. It still shoots fine tho.
With prices the way they are going, it's going to make more economical sense to keep them nice and clean then replace parts that get too rusted to use.
With prices the way they are going, it's going to make more economical sense to keep them nice and clean then replace parts that get too rusted to use.
A refurb isn't going to be worth a whole lot going forward, there are too many unissued in circulation. I've had it since 2008, shot it a bunch, plan on cutting the bayo lug off and shooting it a bunch more.
I even take my guns out in the rain.
I even take my guns out in the rain.
Windex does nothing! When will this rumor stop! The salts themselves are not corrosive, and they can't be neutralized.
They are hydrophilic. That means they like water. They will pull moisture from the air, and that moisture is what causes rust.
Can the mods make windex into a censored word or something? Lol
As for the OP, my guesses are either your storage location is quite dry, or the g96 is sufficiently coating the salts so they are not exposed to the atmosphere.
