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Old 01-10-2010, 07:29 AM   #18
XIDshooter
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Quote:       Originally Posted by Rex in OTZ View Post
A associate of mine had shot corrosive ammo in his Norinco SKS thinking the chorme barrel was safe, turns out it wasent the barrel that got ruined it was the gas piston and tube that were so badly corroded it took 2 hours of messing with it to get them seperated, the corrosion salts had somehow been made ther was past the chrome on the gas piston, the gas tube looked like a old sewer pipe.

Corrosive ammo and the gas system is bad news if not cleaned
Ya beat me to it Rex!!!!

Cleaned the bore on my Yugo and neglected the gas port,found out the hard way when I kept getting FTE,finally broke it down and the mess was bad!!!!
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