Shooting a Mauser K98k

[kurusu]

Originally Posted by kurusu

You can shoot all the "corrosive" ammo you want. If you clean the bore after every shooting session (even if the shooting session is just one shot) the bore will remain like new.


By the way, any gun that never ever gets shot is nothing more than an expensive (in some cases very expensive) paperweight.

Quoting myself, that's clever.


But... in the beginnings of smokeless powders many people thought the chores of thoroughly cleaning their weapons were a thing of the past. Little they knew that the primers were also corrosive, and that just one or two shots, if the gun was left unattended, could completely ruin the bore. That's the main reason why most C96s have such lousy bores.