Am I the only one here that polishes each round of their ammo by hand and wipes each round with a light silicon rag until it gleams like a little jewel? My wife thinks I'm nuts!
^ plus 1 with your wife, LOL
BTW my wife once sorted my shottie shells (to "help" me) by color! It took me quite awhile to separate all the lengths, shot, and powers back out! I have about every type of 12G ammo made, 23/4", 3", 31/2", Turkey loads, slugs, buckshot, and every size shot trap shells from #5s to #8s, with different dram amounts plus waterfowl steelshot and squirrel/rabbit hi-brass loads, so you can imagine the chaos!
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I dont think anyone who would break into my house would have the proper time to admire my shiny rounds before they were covered in his body matter , or any animal as well.
I have only done this with old german 7.62x51 ammo that had some crust buildup. It was a pain to do to several thousand rounds and took a long time, but did come clean. Now my DAG headstamped stuff looks new.
I actually started this after my Uncle gave me an AR15 when I turned 20 or 24 (don't remember exactly). It would randomly and frequently fail to extract even after cleaning and several trips back to Colt. I decided to try polishing my old ammo and wipe each round with a rag lightly sprayed with endust. I just wiped the new ammo with light endust. That was the end of the problem. I never had any more problems w/FTE afterwards, so I just made it a habit. I did replace endust with light, silicon spray on a rag though.
I have only cleaned wiped and lubricated linked 7.62 ammo for a 240 that my dumb driver left open in our truck during a rain storm that was a lot of freakin ammo.
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I have only cleaned wiped and lubricated linked 7.62 ammo for a 240 that my dumb driver left open in our truck during a rain storm that was a lot of freakin ammo.
Am I the only one here that polishes each round of their ammo by hand and wipes each round with a light silicon rag until it gleams like a little jewel? My wife thinks I'm nuts!
It's only if you begin to also write the names of people on the cases, then you should consider help =D
Nah, I had to buy and polish a box of silvertips, just because they look so much cooler in belt loops. I makes sure there isn't any gunk on my shells, I just like to keep my chambers clean as well.
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It's only if you begin to also write the names of people on the cases, then you should consider help =D
Nah, I had to buy and polish a box of silvertips, just because they look so much cooler in belt loops. I makes sure there isn't any gunk on my shells, I just like to keep my chambers clean as well.
Nope, but I've thought of giving each round it's own little name and writing it on their casings, after all, aren't they just little people too? I've tried to breed them. I put a 7.62X39 and a 5.56 NATO in a dark box with one of those little bottles of jack daniels hoping they'd make either .22lr or .380s for me. Hasn't been successful yet, maybe the X39 would prefer vodka. Oh well...... I'll keep you posted.
If people think you're potentially a little psychotic, it gives you a bit of a mental edge, don'cha think?
just be careful about using anything to slippery....you want the friction of the expanding case to "grab" the case against the chamber to keep it off of the bolt face too much (its worse if you reload on the hot side)
sorry....but the mental image of barney fithe just keeps popping up
just be careful about using anything to slippery....you want the friction of the expanding case to "grab" the case against the chamber to keep it off of the bolt face too much (its worse if you reload on the hot side)
sorry....but the mental image of barney fithe just keeps popping up
You mean Barney Fife I think. And yes, I've thought about the slippery factor but it hasn't been a problem.
, or any animal as well.
