Mosin Nagant

[M0nkey_Man]

Avoid WD-40. Good ol Hoppes will work. If you don't completely disassemble it, at least take the bolt completely apart to clean.

dont worry, im taking everything apart

[AHTbolt]

in the army we used Varsol and if we dident have that we used spray oven cleaner like easyoff works great.

[Dichotomy]

already got my mineral spirits ready , spent 2 hours today researching different things on how to clean it.

you actually studied for two hours? Surely this was in 10 minute increments

[Reschke]

NEVER use WD-40 on a weapon. Bad things man bad things.

I sell FrogLube and have sold a 4 gallons of the stuff to some guys who bought a crate of Mosins like that. They used a blueing tank with a heater on it and disassembled the weapons then stuck them in the blueing tank for about 4 hours and they came out smelling minty fresh with almost no cosmoline left in the wood but with ZERO on the metal parts at all.

You may never get 100% of the cosmoline out of the stock. The one I have was cleaned with gas and hot water after going in the oven for a long time and it still gets cosmoline coming out of it after a long spirited session on the firing line.

[Maverick]

I use the mineral spirits method for cosmoline even on the wood.

Here is a tip for long life with the surplus corrosive ammo. Clean the gun with a water based gun solvent. The corrosive stuff is a salt and regular peto based solvent won't get rid of it. You can also rinse the metal parts in boiling water. I use a tea kettle with the parts suspended from a wire outside. This flushes the dirty solvent away and heats the metal so it dries before it can rust. Lube with a good gun oil, preferably while the metal is still warm. Leave plenty of lube in the bore then just run a dry patch before you go shooting again.

This also works with black powder guns as well.

Reschke knows about good gun products too.

[Nefarious]

Great advice from Reschke and Maverick. Hey Reschke, whatever happened to that free sample? 

[Reschke]

I honestly forgot...been slammed. Send me another PM with your address and I will drop it into the mail tomorrow.

[M0nkey_Man]

Thanks for all the advice everyone

[M0nkey_Man]

finished it and got to shoot it yesterday. leaves a pretty big hole in the target

[SmokinLoon]

finished it and got to shoot it yesterday. leaves a pretty big hole in the target

More or less the same size hole as the .30-06, 7.5 French, 8mm Mauser, 7.7 Jap, .303 British, and 7.65 Belgian.   

Now, if the holes are not round-ish and instead long and not uniform in shape, then you've got problems.  That is called "key-holing" and your bullets are tumbling in the flight, which in turns means you've got problems in the barrel, which in turns means you should stop firing that rifle immediately and get it to a legit gunsmith who can scope the bore.     

[PAKFRONT]

The military way= Purple 145 works best, no smoking now, lol!

[Widewing]

finished it and got to shoot it yesterday. leaves a pretty big hole in the target

Not nearly as large as my .58 cal Springfield...... 

[M0nkey_Man]

More or less the same size hole as the .30-06, 7.5 French, 8mm Mauser, 7.7 Jap, .303 British, and 7.65 Belgian.   

Now, if the holes are not round-ish and instead long and not uniform in shape, then you've got problems.  That is called "key-holing" and your bullets are tumbling in the flight, which in turns means you've got problems in the barrel, which in turns means you should stop firing that rifle immediately and get it to a legit gunsmith who can scope the bore.     

I said it because the only thing we could compare it to was the micro .22 holes we had

[PFactorDave]

Not nearly as large as my .58 cal Springfield...... 

Or my Charleville Muskets .69 cal!   

[james]

Buying a mosin soon. There's a hard stain finish on the wood. I'd like to redo it but stain the stock something different. Anyone else ever do something like that?