My regiment of cleaning military surplus rifles that shoot corrosively primed ammunition.
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Note – The RCHS solution is prepared in a subunit. The composition of the solution is as follows:
# drinking water – 1 L;
# ammonium carbonate – 200 g;
# potassium bichromate – 3-5 g.
The RCHS solution is prepared in the amount required for scouring the weapon in the course of 24 hours. Small amount of the RCHS solution may be stored in tightly plugged glass vessels, away from heaters (in a dark place) for not more than 7 days.
i agree peeps get carried away just brushin patchin oilin will do it. as an infantry man myself we beat the shit out of our m4s and all we do is brush oil and run patches pick carbon ..
back in the day (during ww2 or before)
corrosive ammo was the only thing out there, and it doesn’t take a wizz to realize that soldiers didn’t have the time or resources to care for these surplus rifles like we do, especially with the mosin nagants. They would shoot corrosive ammo in combat and if lucky would be able to clean the bore next week.
so my question is, how the hell did they prevent their weapons from disfunctioning or rusting away in the field?
I’ll let you know how it goes XD
Never heard of using carbonated water. Never tried either. I suppose you could use it upon your own prerogative.
Would carbonated water be a good idea?
Right on! That’s all you need!
Depends really on humidity. Hot dry places might take longer. But it won’t take much more than 2 or 3 days until you see stuff in there. Clean them ASAP after shooting, and especially if any corrosive stuff is shot out of a gas operated gun clean the gas tube and piston too!
How long until you can see it forming?
Yea whatever works. If that stuff is formulated for it, spot on. I haven’t seen anything like that but if its working, then carry on. I just checked the bores in my rifles I shoot corrosive ammo out of and they are still looking good
I use a copper solvent and run that through, finish off with the Hoppes 9 formulated for corrosive ammo.
Great product selection…I heat my windex and lace it will some water about 50/50.
The routine I use, I use Hoppes last, and then dry patches on a bore snake 5 times through the barrel. And I run a dry bore snake through them a few times before I start shooting them
Thanks for the info though, I wasn’t aware of any film left.
Probably dont need the windex, tends to leave light film and you dont want that in your gun. The corrosive salts are best dissolved with HOT water I add a little bit of detergent to help it along too.
Then i use a bore snake with hoppes on the tail of it.
finish with a very light coating of ballistol in the barrel using a patch.
I can vouch that the Butches Bore Shine is awesome stuff…A little pricy but it works great.
Very true. I’m sure its overkill, but thats ok. Better safe than sorry in this instance. I have had no problems with recurring growing in the barrel after it sits for a while. I check the bores of my rifles often to be sure. Anyone that does shoot any corrosive ammo, be sure to do the same. It doesn’t take long for corrosive ammo to rear its ugliness down a barrel. Rifle or pistol. It is critical to clean any gas systems if corrosive ammo is shot out of a gas operated gun! Can not forget that!
Very good video. I was thinking about making a video on this as well. I just use hopes number 9 and scrub the crap out of the barrel and then after cleaning it out with dry patches I take a patch with light remington oil and put it down the barrel. It has woked for me so far. I have heard about people using windex and hot soapy water, but I have not tried that yet. Also no kidding corrosive ammo will rust your barrel if all you do is pull a dry boresnake through the barrel and call it quits.
Extremely informative. This should be mandatory viewing for everyone on G&G