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Posted: 7/3/2005 7:36:56 AM EDT
| Hello I have a Mosin Nagant M44 and I have had it for about a year and a half now. When I bought it was packed full of cosmolien just like most C&R. My question is I shot it last fall a I did not ever get around to cleaning it right after I was done shooting it, almost a year has gone by and it still has nopt been cleaned. I think that the ammo was corosive it came in a tin that was sealed and it had like 880 rounds in it. I am going to get around to cleaning it here in a few weeks and when I do I am going to add a scope and a new stock I am wondering if this rifle is going to be ok to still shoo I mean will the neglect on my part ruin the rifle. I dont want to get out on the range after I add theses things to this gun and it blow up in my facce or the barrel will blow up? What do you guys think? |
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it wont blow up. if the ammo was corrosive, your barrel may look like a sewer pipe. Sorry. Clean after shooting corrosive. Go to www.surplusrifle.com to learn more about cleaning your mosin. |
Neglect on your part will do it every time. I have 2 Nagant "sewer pipes" that were ruined by previous owners. The first one, looked great at the gunshop, all nice and cleaned up 1944 dated M44. I got it for a good price, took it home, and put it in the safe. Took it out 1 week later and bore was already corroded. Aparently someone shot corrosive and ran a patch through the bore (looked great at the shop), but DIDN"T CLEAN FOR CORROSIVE. This was my first Nagant and I didn't know any better. After that I cleaned every Nagant for corrosive as soon as it hits the house. I don't care how clean it is or who I bought it from. The second one was a Finn M91 that I found at a pawn shop. The bore was a sewer pipe and I spotted it right off the bat. I bought it as a parts/project gun for $40.00. Turns out it has a unique combination of marking on it that make it worth close to $300.00 to some collectors, even with a corroded bore. I tried every method to rehab the bores that I could come up with, going from least destructive to most. These included: repeated cleanings, lapping compound, plugging the bores and letting bore cleaner sit in them for weeks, cleaning rod attached to a power drills, etc. The M44 Improved somewhat, but the M91 took everything I could throw at it. The only thing I haven't done so far is to rig up a remote firing device at the range and see if firing a couple of rounds knocks the crud loose. |
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