Paranoia/Question for ex or current CF... or anyone who knows

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I just took my MN 91/30 out for the first time last weekend, putting 120 rounds of corrosive through her. My shoulder is blue and green but that's beside the point. I cleaned it with warm water a few hours after i got home from the range, dried it thouroughly and completely, then cleaned it normally with outers nitro solvent and oiled it with outers gun oil. I check it every evening for rust when I get home, and I'm not sure if it's my imagination or not, but I seem to notice little rust coloured flecks in the chamber when the light from my flashlight hits it just right. Some may call me paranoid, but it's my rifle, and SHE HAS A NAME! IT'S ANASTASIA AND PLEASE DON'T TELL MY FIANCEE!!! :runaway:

...ahem...

I love that rifle and would be deeply distressed if I hurt her through neglect in any way.

My Question:

I was wondering if I were to clean Anna with CF issue CLP and just CLP, and oiled with CLP, and named my first child CLP, would that be sufficient to prevent rust from ever touching my baby (the rifle)? I get nervous using water or windex...

Thanks in advance for the help.
 
Did you brush it, and use a copper/tombac solvent? From your description, it sounds like you didn't. There may be salts trapped under the jacket fouling.

Did you mop the chamber? Remember to clean the bolt ect.

Your cleaning may have loosened previous fouling...

If it was a humid day, it may start sooner than usual as the priming compound is hygroscopic.

I'm not overly familiar with CLP, but oil based cleaners tend to trap the problem & not remove it (ie rust can occur in an oiled bore)

Usually, I use boiling water, copper brush, Sweets & G96/Kroil myself...
 
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Inquisitor said:
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I get nervous using water or windex...

Thanks in advance for the help.
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My room-mate has used windex & cold water for years on his black-powder rifles with no ill effects...

Course, when he was in his apartment he used to clean his Sharps in the shower:eek:
 
hot water and ammonia, followed by a good brushing and a second round of boiling hot water.

the boiling water evaporates quickly and a dry patch finishes the job.

then a quick clean with the oil of your choice and your good.

you sould like your geting a copper buildup so perhaps a round of cleaning with copper solvent before the oiling might help

I have a few milsurps that are getting a bit of a copper buildup but from non corrosive ammo, so one day I'll get out the nylon brush and copper solvent.
 
Here's a lazy man's method: quick patch of windex at the range through the bore and on the bolt face. when you get home, swab with more windex, disassemble bolt and swab it all down with windex soaked paper towel too.

Clean and oil the bolt.

Outers foaming bore cleaner down the tube, fill the chamber too. Let sit 30 minutes. Wipe out.

Clean as normal with Hoppes No.9 or whatever. Oil, assemble, put away.

Check the gun a day or two later to make sure no suprises are starting to form...
 
I use foaming cleaner, that's it. Spray the foam in, wait a while, wipe the foam out, and you're done. It's good for corrosive and it gets in all the little cracks and crevices.
 
Windex at the range, then the foaming bore cleaner at home followed by good ol WD40.

Only had rust once. At the crown of the muzzle and can't recall how I did that...
 
On the pointy end we would re-org and secure. If we had nowhere to go we would give a generous (fast!) wipe of CLP down the pipe and then wait a few minutes. Break down in shifts and clean the hell out of it with the jag and brush then wipes. C-7s get finicky if you neglect them...

So I say you CLP the hell out of it before you pack her up (not so much it drips outta the barrel). When you get home that CLP will have moved throughout everything it touched and should have lifted most of the fouling off the surfaces. Then you detail it as best you can using a bright white light to look in nooks and crannies. Keep an old shaving brush and a soft toothbrush as supplemental kit for cleaning the rifle. You should be good to go. Don't forget to get a good jag so you can get into those nooks and crannies with a little wraparound magic.

We used CLP a lot. It was our friend!
 
Inquisitor said:
And CLP will become my friend too. What foaming bore cleaners are good?

Anastasia thanks you all...
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You'll have to introduce me to her you know...


I never used a foaming bore cleaner. My granddad was a traditionalist. You oil your rifle, you rub your rifle you pull a brush through your rifle, you wipe your rifle down. In the CF we never had the luxury. A can of that stuff would take up the space for something important, like chocolate or ammo.
 
After shooting corrosive in mine, all I did was a couple of passes with Windex in the bore, chamber and bolt face followed by a regular cleaning. The only place I found rust was on the cleaning rod I forgot to wipe down :rolleyes: . The bore was and still is spotless.

(E) :cool:
 
CLP is just oil with white stuff in it

It has NO effect on guns using corrosive ammo...

Windex...hot water...stainless brush...more hot water....bore cleaner....stainless brush...patch, patch, patch....put in locker...check regularly
 
Klunk said:
CLP is just oil with white stuff in it

It has NO effect on guns using corrosive ammo...

Windex...hot water...stainless brush...more hot water....bore cleaner....stainless brush...patch, patch, patch....put in locker...check regularly
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you wouldn't have to do that last step if you just shot it regulary :D :p
 
Klunk said:
CLP is just oil with white stuff in it

It has NO effect on guns using corrosive ammo...

Windex...hot water...stainless brush...more hot water....bore cleaner....stainless brush...patch, patch, patch....put in locker...check regularly
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I'd use the stainless brush sparingly, except in extremely fouled bores.

I've seen bores damaged by overuse. (generally really old guns...)

Copper is a much better choice as a general rule (even though the ammonia attacks it)

That odd group known as "Bench resters" often refuse to use any metal brush on their bores (citing scratch/erosive damage:eek: )
but they are an extreme case...
 
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