Cleaning your rifle after firing Corrosive Surplus Military Ammunition

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Uploaded by on Oct 4, 2011

Most of the Corrosive ammo fired in modern times is surplus 7.62x54r. It must be neutralized properly or your rifle will be turned into a rusty sewer pipe. This subject was first discussed on my youtube page in March of 2007. It was video #2. The original video is gone for good.

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  • It's also important to clean your "gun" after being with a corrosive vagina.

  • @ProGunTexan Windex also works for that....lol

  • Did anyone notice the grenade sitting on the table to the right of the windex looking bottle? lol

  • @bmp130 Thats for those really hard to reach places.

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  • The soldiers back in the day would pee in it. It's a warm, water based solvent, that contains ammonia.

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  • I never would have thought to use windex thanks for postin man

  • yea a bore snake works best

  • @ProGunTexan Refer to 4:41 incase you were still curious... "its still crusty!" my favorite part of the video ha ha ha

  • It is very important to clean after shooting corrosive ammo. My brother shot up my mosin with my corrosive ammo and never cleaned it and I was not able to get to it for a few weeks. the insides were all rusted up. ohhhhhhh was I mad. Ended having to use some blue and rust remover to clean it. ALWAYS CLEAN AFTER SHOOTING CORROSIVES!

  • The russians just used gasoline to clean their mosins.

  • I noticed your Hand grenade, I have the same kind.

  • Hey I actually just bought the CZ 858 today with a 1400 round box of the Russian 7.62x39mm corrosive military surplus ammo, I was told by the owner of the gun store to just run hot water down the barrel once or twice and then clean the gun normally, would that be fine to do?

  • Do you have to break down the bolt each time you shoot. Or just worry about the bore.

  • Great video. I wouldn't leave Sweets 7.62 in the barrel for half an hour. It's likely to etch the bore.

    When do you stop your cleaning? I always finish up with a huge pile of patches, wondering whether I'm being too anally retentive.

  • The important thing is to use a water based solvent... like water. Salts are polar compounds which can't be dissolved by non-polar solvents like those that are petroleum based.

    Ammonia doesn't do anything for the corrosive salts, but it will probably help with copper fouling.

    I just flush out the bore and rinse the bolt with a kettle of boiling water, then clean as normal.

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