safe storage

[Olle]

Originally Posted by rhuff

In the past, I have owned some barrels with really nasty bores. What I do is plug one end of the barrel, set it upright(plug to bottom, and fill the bore with Hoppe's #9 and let it sit for a few days. Hoppe's #9 contains kerosene, and has worked wonders for many decades.

I have done kind of the same with Kroil: Wet the bore good, wet it again the next day and then let it sit for another few days. The longer it sits, the better. Rinse and repeat as necessary.

I had an SVT-40 with an extremely nasty bore, no matter how hard I scrubbed it was still rough so I wrote it off as a hopeless case. Then somebody suggested that I spray some Kroil in it, so I did that, put up the rifle and forgot all about it. A few weeks later a friend comes buy and wants to buy it, so I sold it at a "bad bore price". A few days later he texted me and said that the crud wiped right out, the bore was a little corroded but the rifling was fine.

[rhuff]

I keep an empty olive bottle around that I fill with #9 for 911 barrels, and other removable barrels that are really nasty. Let them sit for a week or so, and my right arm/wrist thanks me.