Shooting non-corrosive after corrosive to eliminate rust?

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Hi everyone,

I've heard from time to time, on this forum and on others, that shooting 5 rounds or so of non-corrosive ammo after spending the day shooing corrosive ammo eliminates the corrosive salts, and hence the need to clean your rifle after each and every shoot. In particular I'm looking at 7.62x39 ammo if that makes any difference.

Is there any merit to this, or is it just plain hocus pocus?

Thanks everyone,
Cal.
 
Har har! I do it just because im neurotic. Still scrape the hell out of the barrel, bore and pistol/gas port. Although I live in AB where its so dry rust is never an issue. My buddy rarely cleans his CZ and it has no rust. probs 4000 rnds old.

-chris
 
calvados.boulard said:
Hi everyone,

I've heard from time to time, on this forum and on others, that shooting 5 rounds or so of non-corrosive ammo after spending the day shooing corrosive ammo eliminates the corrosive salts, and hence the need to clean your rifle after each and every shoot. In particular I'm looking at 7.62x39 ammo if that makes any difference.

Is there any merit to this, or is it just plain hocus pocus?

Thanks everyone,
Cal.
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daniel_250r said:
Hocus pocus your just layering non corrosive powder over corrosive. It may help with the barrel a bit but your chamber and bolt face are still going to rot away
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I have heard this, and the idea behind it makes sense, but i think it would actually work better doing it the opposit way. Shoot some non corrosive first to get a layer of "good" carbon covering thingsto prevent the corrosive salts getting onto the metal in the first place.
how much of a difference it makes is anybody's guess.
 
I would never do it and not clean because of it, but if it makes a difference if i miss something cleaning, why not?
 
Personnally,i am too sayvy to waste non-corrosive ammo just to get away from a good cleaning. I say,if you dont like cleaning your rifle, corrosive ammo is not for you... Just my 2 cents.
Joce
 
Are there really this many people out there who skip cleaning their rifles? I'll admit, I don't clean my shotguns or .22's after every shooting session but I always clean my rifles. I actually like cleaning them. Plus the sks is so easy to clean. I made a steel funnel with some rubber fuel line on the end to pour the boiling water down the barrel from the chamber end. It works good and only adds a couple of minutes to the cleaning.
 
calvados.boulard said:
Hi everyone,

I've heard from time to time, on this forum and on others, that shooting 5 rounds or so of non-corrosive ammo after spending the day shooing corrosive ammo eliminates the corrosive salts, and hence the need to clean your rifle after each and every shoot. In particular I'm looking at 7.62x39 ammo if that makes any difference.

Is there any merit to this, or is it just plain hocus pocus?

Thanks everyone,
Cal.
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After the first time I shot corrosive in an SKS, I missed a spot at the end of the hand guard. And it rusted in the exact spot that I missed, within a day or so. I cleaned it off and gave it a bit of bore cleaner, but it was pretty easy to see the spot I missed!

The sticky in the milsurp forum explains it well, just mop it up. I like the corrosive stuff cause it is cheap and I feel like that's what something like an SKS was meant to do...

I will also add that if I'm going to shoot corrosive in an SKS, it really focuses me going to the range. I'm not going to bring a bunch of equipment if I know that I will need to do some extra cleaning at the end of the day. This works for me because I like to shoot corrosive at 25/50 yds, while standing using iron sights.... And I like to take old rifles apart.
 
I just strip my norinco down to the reciever stock removed and while holding onto the rear cover latch pour boiling water over everything. I dont have a spec of rust and im the most ocd sob your going to meet
 
Clean with water when you're done shooting, then dry. Doesn't have to be boiling water either. Tepid is fine.
Salt residue from corrosive ammo is not soluble in most bore cleaners! The salt would still be left behind.

Don't take dumb chances when protecting your gun is easy and cheap!
 
liberal-hater said:
Clean with water when you're done shooting, then dry. Doesn't have to be boiling water either. Tepid is fine.
Salt residue from corrosive ammo is not soluble in most bore cleaners! The salt would still be left behind.

Don't take dumb chances when protecting your gun is easy and cheap!
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Tepid water will wash away the salts but make it more difficult to dry. That's why I use a 1.7l electric kettle that cost me $7-8 at wally's
 
Salt residue may not be soluable in things like WD40, but it will still wash the salt away as it will carry the solids away if you just douse the gun with it. Not ideal, but works fine.
 
G96 works great for me and doesn't even require scrubbing. Spray the works down and put it back in the safe. No rust ever.
 
AK said:
G96 works great for me and doesn't even require scrubbing. Spray the works down and put it back in the safe. No rust ever.
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This is the good news. I even stopped with the windex [and/or ammoniated floor cleaner from work] and now only really use G96. Stuff is rockstar.

-chris
 
Winston1984 said:
After the first time I shot corrosive in an SKS, I missed a spot at the end of the hand guard. And it rusted in the exact spot that I missed, within a day or so. I cleaned it off and gave it a bit of bore cleaner, but it was pretty easy to see the spot I missed!

The sticky in the milsurp forum explains it well, just mop it up. I like the corrosive stuff cause it is cheap and I feel like that's what something like an SKS was meant to do...

I will also add that if I'm going to shoot corrosive in an SKS, it really focuses me going to the range. I'm not going to bring a bunch of equipment if I know that I will need to do some extra cleaning at the end of the day. This works for me because I like to shoot corrosive at 25/50 yds, while standing using iron sights.... And I like to take old rifles apart.
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#1 reason why arma coated SKS is the best use of armacoat.

-chris
 
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