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Posted: 2/22/2005 5:57:53 AM EDT
| Is there anything I can do to prevent corrosion. All input would help thanks. |
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If you're shooing corrosive ammo, or ammo you even suspect of being corrosive, clean everything touched by corrosive fouling with HOT water, then clean with a good bore cleaner. This includes running patches wet with water down the bore to remove the corrosive salts followed by normal bore cleaning. Coat everything with a good rust preventing lube like CLP Breakfree. Be careful where you store the rifle. Closets and basements are damp and are bad about causing rust. |
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You can buy new commercial (non-GI) barrels. Re-barreling is a MAJOR job, best left to a gunsmith. You cannot just screw the old barrel of, and screw a new one on. All American made commercial and all 1960's to current American military ammo is non-corrosive. WARNING: Not all commercial hunting ammo is suitable for use in the M1. The M1 was specifically designed and built to work with 150 or 173 grain USGI ammo ONLY. Commercial ammo with bullets heavier than 173 grains, OR ammo loaded with non-GI spec powder can WRECK an M1. If you want to shoot commercial ammo, you MUST select one that has GI spec burning rate powder. Powders with different burning rates can and WILL damage the M1. |
Or, get yourself an adjustable gas nut... www.adcofirearms.com/nutfaq.cfm?page=gs |
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