Best place to buy Mosin- Nagants in the Oklahoma City- Moore Area?

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KenDaMastuh

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You want to thoroughly clean off cosmoline in the chamber and in the bore. Cosmoline left in the chamber becomes hard and sticky when heated and cooled from shooting. Eventually it gets baked on and is one of few culprits of a sticky bolt. Sticky bolts are not fun and can range from minor to sever. In severe cases, when the chamber gets hot from firing rounds, your bolt can get stuck closed and you literally need to pound it open with a mallet or a big stick to get it open. It's generally a good idea to remove all cosmoline on the exterior in a detailed strip if you don't want it to start crudding and crusting up when it starts to get old and dry up.

When you say mineral salts, do you mean mineral spirits? Never heard mineral salts being used, but I do use mineral spirits to clean cosmoline off my guns, heh.

Oops, yeah that's what I meant. Major brain fart there. Shows what happens when you try to write posts with fatigue. :P
Guess I'll try to clean some more cosmoline out. Sticky bolts are never any fun.

So is SSP out of the hex?

I would believe so. I picked up one and jduff picked up another. I heard they only had a couple (maybe two)? left.
 
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jduff8505

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Sounds like a fun job ahead cleaning this old girl. Off topic: I do believe I may have gotten myself into a place for which there is no return. Now I'm looking for a Springfield 1903. IIRC someone on here said it's a bad deal once you drink the Milsurp Kool Aid.

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Sounds like a fun job ahead cleaning this old girl. Off topic: I do believe I may have gotten myself into a place for which there is no return. Now I'm looking for a Springfield 1903. IIRC someone on here said it's a bad deal once you drink the Milsurp Kool Aid.

Jeff

So true, so true. You truly become infatuated with these rifles once you get into the collecting hobby (although I'm not really a collector myself).
Also, for getting a 1903 Springfield, you're just outta luck. The best deals on 'em were from the CMP (Civilian Marksmanship Program), and they sold out large stocks long ago. You might be able to find a few when you drive down to Anniston or up to Camp Perry. Better grab an M1 Garand while you still can.
 

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