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So years ago when I owned my first Garand I cleaned them just like we cleaned the club’s Garands, through the muzzle, usually with a GI range rod, but many times with the sectioned GI rod😳
But since then I’ve gotten older and wiser and have a helluva lot more experience cleaning very accurate rifles and even with a muzzle guide putting my one piece Dewey rod into that “0+” muzzle was like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. Plus I know all about the controversy whether muzzle erosion on an M1 is caused more by shooting or cleaning rods😎
What alternatives are there besides a bore snake or getting a true “false muzzle?”
What do you guys use?
And not until I saw a picture in the GCA journal did I ever see a guy clean his M1 upside down in the vise, so the solvent doesn’t drip into the action/stock when the brush and patch hit the breech, why didnt I think of that?😉
Plus I swear by Sweets 7.62 and good old fashioned Hoppes 9 but what solvent do you guys use?
But since then I’ve gotten older and wiser and have a helluva lot more experience cleaning very accurate rifles and even with a muzzle guide putting my one piece Dewey rod into that “0+” muzzle was like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. Plus I know all about the controversy whether muzzle erosion on an M1 is caused more by shooting or cleaning rods😎
What alternatives are there besides a bore snake or getting a true “false muzzle?”
What do you guys use?
And not until I saw a picture in the GCA journal did I ever see a guy clean his M1 upside down in the vise, so the solvent doesn’t drip into the action/stock when the brush and patch hit the breech, why didnt I think of that?😉
Plus I swear by Sweets 7.62 and good old fashioned Hoppes 9 but what solvent do you guys use?