Just ordered 20 stripper clips for my Mosins

[Junk Yard Dog]

I bought 300 just to get one clip

[bunkysdad]

Deputy it was just pure magic that's how. I do know how you feel about boiling water though. I feel the same way about hydrochloric acid!:P my favorite clips are the blued clips from Bulgaria with the circle 10 on the back.

[desertgunner]

Been shooting co surplus ever since I got my first Mosin 10 years ago. That particular rifle has today a pit-free, well rifled (for the age and use) bore and shoots 3 inch groups on 200m.
I understand the mind-set of not using water, but it is my experience that water takes out the salts that you do not want in the barrel and elsewhere. And every rifle should be thoroughly cleaned after service, anyway. I shoot commercial only for hunting purposes, soft point etc.
During my time in the Forces my gunny said to us (boot camp): I better not catch one of you ladies using hot water on my rifles, although it helps a lot! But I want to see you cleaning your weapons as if they were your ......., I'll be back in 15 and better see no wet towel here! We figured out what that was supposed to mean....

As to the stripper clips....the ones that come with the 1952 LPS are all Ishevsk and work well. No comparison to any other Aftermarket Ones available, I trashed the 10 I had bought from CTD or somewhere.

[Junk Yard Dog]

Uncle had a special formulated bore cleaner just for dealing with the salts, but the US stopped producing corrosive primed ammo in fifty four.

[Junk Yard Dog]

I have read of soldiers using steam to clean their bores back during the corrosive era, specific mention was made of doing so to remove primer salts.

[hoshow]

My friend told me to use windex to clean after firing corrosive ammo. I haven't done it yet. Is this a good way to clean a Mosin?

[Junk Yard Dog]

I don't know, smell reminds me of cat piss, I use boiling water down the pipe, and then just clean it with bore solvent, and oil it up once I am done.

[hoshow]

I have always used hot water, but was curious about the windex.

[Junk Yard Dog]

Squeeze the cat over the bore, same effect

[Deputy]

Lots of posts online about using Windex. Dennis Kroh from Empire Arms has a formula for ammonia/water that he recommends on his website:
http://www.empirearms.com/clean.htm

When I was in basic training the guys that went through the infiltration course or confidence course or whaever they call it now when they shoot live ammo over your head while you crawl through the mud, took their rifles in the showers with them and cleaned the mud and crud off that way. But that was for cleaning the external parts of the rifle. Not the bore and rifling. I have a stockpile of WW2 GI bore cleaner and it is made specifically for cleaning corrosive ammo. So all these stories of US soldiers using water or steam or animal excerement to clean the bores of there rifles during WW2 is questionable at best. Maybe the Gemrans used cat pee and that's why they lost?
I'm pretty sure the Germans used Ballistol during WW2, although I have yet to read any documentat5ion of them mixing it with water to clean their weapons, other than anecdotal stuff. For me...I leave the ammonia and cat pee for cleaning windows, the water for mixing with lemonade on a hot day, and non-corrosive ammo for shooting.

[desdem12]

They used water in the revolutionary war and also in the civil war, indian wars probly against the zulus too.

[Deputy]

They used water in the revolutionary war and also in the civil war, indian wars probly against the zulus too.

Maybe because Hoppes and other bore cleaners weren't in production yet?

[hoshow]

Lots of posts online about using Windex. Dennis Kroh from Empire Arms has a formula for ammonia/water that he recommends on his website:
http://www.empirearms.com/clean.htm

When I was in basic training the guys that went through the infiltration course or confidence course or whaever they call it now when they shoot live ammo over your head while you crawl through the mud, took their rifles in the showers with them and cleaned the mud and crud off that way. But that was for cleaning the external parts of the rifle. Not the bore and rifling. I have a stockpile of WW2 GI bore cleaner and it is made specifically for cleaning corrosive ammo. So all these stories of US soldiers using water or steam or animal excerement to clean the bores of there rifles during WW2 is questionable at best. Maybe the Gemrans used cat pee and that's why they lost?
I'm pretty sure the Germans used Ballistol during WW2, although I have yet to read any documentat5ion of them mixing it with water to clean their weapons, other than anecdotal stuff. For me...I leave the ammonia and cat pee for cleaning windows, the water for mixing with lemonade on a hot day, and non-corrosive ammo for shooting.

Thanks for the link deputy

[Deputy]

Lots of posts online about using Windex. Dennis Kroh from Empire Arms has a formula for ammonia/water that he recommends on his website:
http://www.empirearms.com/clean.htm

When I was in basic training the guys that went through the infiltration course or confidence course or whaever they call it now when they shoot live ammo over your head while you crawl through the mud, took their rifles in the showers with them and cleaned the mud and crud off that way. But that was for cleaning the external parts of the rifle. Not the bore and rifling. I have a stockpile of WW2 GI bore cleaner and it is made specifically for cleaning corrosive ammo. So all these stories of US soldiers using water or steam or animal excerement to clean the bores of there rifles during WW2 is questionable at best. Maybe the Gemrans used cat pee and that's why they lost?
I'm pretty sure the Germans used Ballistol during WW2, although I have yet to read any documentat5ion of them mixing it with water to clean their weapons, other than anecdotal stuff. For me...I leave the ammonia and cat pee for cleaning windows, the water for mixing with lemonade on a hot day, and non-corrosive ammo for shooting.

Thanks for the link deputy

Glad to help. Let me know if you use it and how well it works.

Dep

[rideandslidejim]

Got plenty of boiling water, so nobody better touch our cat ( PJ ) !!!!!!!!

[Junk Yard Dog]

All of the US black powder weapons required water for cleaning, no other way to do it. All black powder weapons anywhere for that matter. It wasn't until the low fouling smokeless powders were developed in 1886 that regular solvents for bore cleaning became possible.

[Junk Yard Dog]

Cat piss is a description of the stink of windex, not an actual substance for cleaning bores, not in this reality anyway.

[Deputy]

Cat piss is a description of the stink of windex, not an actual substance for cleaning bores, not in this reality anyway.

Ahhhh...but has anyone tried to USE cat piss? Maybe during the Battle of the Bulge the Germans found some kitties and turned them upside down and squeezed them over the Mausers?


As to black powder, I'm old, but that is WAY before my time . I heard that modern black powder shooters use something called "moose milk" to clean their guns.

http://www.thehighroad.org/archive/inde ... 2.html&amp&

[Junk Yard Dog]

You have not experienced real fouling until you have experienced black powder fouling from real black powder. Walk across a muddy field and look at your boots, paint the mud black and that's BP fouling Like surplus ammo BP is highly corrosive and must be cleaned ASAP, they put a patch under the hammer to block the cone, or a toothpick in the flintlock's vent hole. They filled the barrel with hot water, and plugged the muzzle with a wooden plug, then shook the rifle vigorously, poured the black water out and then did it over and over until it ran clean and then moped it out with a bit of old rag. Whale oil was applied as a preservative.

[clayshooter2]

Back to the stripper clip conversation, Deputy I bought 40 chargers off a member on another forum last year when they first started reappearing on the market. I have been very happy with every one I received. I load them with 1970's Soviet light ball, but I'm sure they will work just as well with commercial ammo too.