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Originally Posted by ODDJOB UNO
i heard somewheres while playing with british .303 enfields that they used to pull the bolt and run BOILING HOT WATER down barrel and swab it clean.
any truth to this when using corrosive ammo?
what about mitchellsmausers.com i could of sworn they had ammo for sale.
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Yup, boiling water, but only so it would dry real fast. Doesn't clean any better. An yup, Mitchell's has ammo.
I'm always amused by folks' reluctance to use plain water. Everyone seems to think it has to have something in it, but it just doesn't. Windex, for example, doesn't have enough ammonia to make a bit of difference.
Ammonia is only used as a copper solvent anyway. It doesn't do squat to clean up mercuric (corrosive) primer residue or powder fouling, black or smokeless. Early cupro-nickel jackets were very soft and fouled like hell. The old ammonia based cleaners were meant to break that down, not powder fouling. They cleaned with water (powder and primer fouling) then ammonia (jacket fouling) and finally oiled it all up to prevent rust. It takes a very concentrated ammonia based cleaner to even begin to do the job, though. Check out something like Sweets 7,62 Copper Solvent someday - the ammonia smell will knock your hat off.
Today, plain water and something like Hoppe's #9 is all you need to shoot corrosively primed ammo (or black powder ammo) to your little heart's content.