Cleaning question for 95 Win 30-40
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Cleaning question for 95 Win 30-40
Ok guys, I don't know if the Krags were loaded with corrosive powder or primers back in the day but, I can clean mine with Windex w/ vinegar, Sweets 7.62, Hoppe's #9, Isso, and a few others. I will oil the bore and remove excess with a patch, and also pass a wet oiled patch through the bore before storage. A week later the bore will patch out absolutely black. I have stored the rifle with a cap over the muzzle to keep debris out. Any ideas guys?
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Re: Cleaning question for 95 Win 30-40
hmmmm cupro nickel bullets and mercuric and corrosive primers and heaven only knows what else and you get what you got. not fun butgotta keep cleaning.
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Re: Cleaning question for 95 Win 30-40
shawn_c992001 wrote:Ok guys, I don't know if the Krags were loaded with corrosive powder or primers back in the day but, I can clean mine with Windex w/ vinegar, Sweets 7.62, Hoppe's #9, Isso, and a few others. I will oil the bore and remove excess with a patch, and also pass a wet oiled patch through the bore before storage. A week later the bore will patch out absolutely black. I have stored the rifle with a cap over the muzzle to keep debris out. Any ideas guys?
Yeah -- she's a filthy ol' gal, and you haven't gotten her clean yet. Keep at it. I have had rifles that took me literally months of daily cleaning to get squeaky-clean -- and a few that never got all the way there.
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Re: Cleaning question for 95 Win 30-40
So this is common??????? Wow, I have cleaned and scrubbed and let it sit, scrubbed some more, and then again. Still a dirty sewer pipe. The ole gal rolled out of the New Haven plant in 1932.
Anything I may try to speed things up like hot water?
Anything I may try to speed things up like hot water?
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Re: Cleaning question for 95 Win 30-40
Boiling water can be helpful.
I have also scrubbed the bores of old milsurps with a stainless steel brush with the muzzle in a bucket with a litre or so of kerosene in it. The brush draws the kero up the bore dissolving/rinsing the crud as you scrub.
And there is the electrolysis method. I haven't tried it but the results I have seen can be quite spectacular.
http://thedolk.com/borecleaner/index.html
I have also scrubbed the bores of old milsurps with a stainless steel brush with the muzzle in a bucket with a litre or so of kerosene in it. The brush draws the kero up the bore dissolving/rinsing the crud as you scrub.
And there is the electrolysis method. I haven't tried it but the results I have seen can be quite spectacular.
http://thedolk.com/borecleaner/index.html
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Re: Cleaning question for 95 Win 30-40
If you have cleaned it as well as you say, anything that could cause long term damage is long gone. If the rifle shoots good, don't worry about it.
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Re: Cleaning question for 95 Win 30-40
I have always had decent luck with denatured alcohol to get at the hard to clean stuff. Just be very careful, as it is flammable, and will damage wood finishes....
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Re: Cleaning question for 95 Win 30-40
I have been through it with everything in the cleaning rack! Just haven't used any of the wife's cleaning products for the tub, toilet, or floor. I just can't get it to stay clean.
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Re: Cleaning question for 95 Win 30-40
Keep cleaning with a brush and Sweets & Hoppes. There's layers and layers built up in there. It has to end sometime. Its hard to find any 30-40 bore smooth and shiney, whether its from a Krag or a '95. Guys would shoot the corrosive primed cheap military ammo and only clean out the powder residue, not knowing how to get the cupro-nickel out.--------------Sixgun
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Re: Cleaning question for 95 Win 30-40
You will save yourself some serious elbow grease by going to one of the foaming bore cleaners. I happily use either the "Wipe-Out" Brushless Bore Cleaner or the "Gunslick" Foaming Bore Cleaner. And am real happy they got invented!
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Re: Cleaning question for 95 Win 30-40
I don't think I have any of the foaming bore cleaner, but I can put it on the Wal-Mart list for tomorrow.
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