RECIPE FOR LAZY 7.62 x 39 CORROSIVE AMMO SHOOTER

I do not believe that your post is entirely accurate. When you fire corrosive ammo each round lays down a layer of salts, carbon, and copper. Not so much copper with a chrome lined barrel. This carbon can craze and get hard. I do not think that firing non corrosive ammo will get er done for ya as the crazed carbon is very difficullt to remove and must be removed with WipeOut or some such other non snake oil bore cleaner. Thoughts?
 
I tried this with my CZ, did NOT work. Even after a bunch of non corrosive rounds, I had to use the boiling water method and my bore snake to get it back to minty clean after shooting a quarter case of surplus ammo.
 
I boil water and fill a thermos with it, and take it to the range with me. I have a small funnel with a short piece of garden hose shoved onto the end, the end of the hose that goes into the receiver has a bevel whittled on it so the hose fits a little better. Before leaving the range its pretty simple to pour half a thermos of water down the bore. As the water is so hot, it is usually dry by the time the shooting station is cleaned up. When I get home, rifle is cleaned in the usual way, with Hoppes and lightly oiled.
 
brokenspokes1812 said:
I boil water and fill a thermos with it, and take it to the range with me. I have a small funnel with a short piece of garden hose shoved onto the end, the end of the hose that goes into the receiver has a bevel whittled on it so the hose fits a little better. Before leaving the range its pretty simple to pour half a thermos of water down the bore. As the water is so hot, it is usually dry by the time the shooting station is cleaned up. When I get home, rifle is cleaned in the usual way, with Hoppes and lightly oiled.
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I would pay as much attention to both pistons/gas systems as the bore when thermos flushing at the range.
 
I just go home and then clean with boiling water and Balistiol or g96, it's not going to rust on the 40-60 min trip home. I've started using a boiling water and Balistiol mix to soak all the small parts on all my guns that shoot corrosive. By the time I've poured water down the barrel the bits soaking are ready for a wipe down. Basically no fouling is left after the quick soak, it's a wipe dry and reassemble. Easy peezy, it gets a little tedious when I bring a mosin, svt and TT-33 out all at once though. But it's fun to shoot the Reds, always a good time.
 
All I do is pour water down the barrel and gas tube, dosent have to be boiling. Plus it's free. Two crates of corrosive ammo and counting, never had a problem with rust.
 
Everything I read was that shooting commercial (non-corrosive) ammunition is insufficient to "clean" a rifle of corrosive salts. Same of the salts are buried under built up fouling and gas pressure alone won't remove them.
 
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