AK-74 Shooting

[John R.]

I bought a M/N 91/30 about 20 years ago and as I was leaving the owner's father siad"wait one" and came back with around TEN boxes of Canadian Valcartier Industries 7.62x51mm Ball ammo.7 boxes were Full of unfired ammo the OTHER 3 were full of once fired brass,I told the father that I hoped that he hadn't fired the rimless ammo in the M/N and lo and behold HE HAD.Straight cases AND he told me that accuracy was sort of okay but extraction was the ****s.

Cheers,

JR

[albert]

+1 on the Ballistol. I use it straight on a 74 although mine has a chromed barrel. I have never had any rust and I'm not far from the gulf coast. I wash my gas cylinder and flash hider in the sink. heat them dry on a stove burner and oil them. Other areas I clean w/ rags and qtips. The barrel I clean normally. Be very careful of areas where oil gets burnt off. Like the tip of the barrel under the flash hider. Leave the parts wet when you store it and wipe off excess next time you go out.

[Griff Murphey]

Burning guns would not be good light discipline at night....

[milsurpman]

I will not clean with water as where I live, no matter how hard I dry it, risk of residual surface rust appearing later on is too high.

Pls share your thougts and experience.

AFTER you clean with water try this: Use a good quality paper towel to soak up any remaining water you can see. Then use a standard blow hair dryer set to it's highest heat seting and it's most powerful blowing force. This will heat up the metal and also force water out of the cracks and crevases. You really can't hurt any gun parts because the dryer (hopefully) would have been build so that it could not hurt human skin. Try it, works great for me.[/QUOTE]

Amber and poster try this. Boil a pot of water to use to flush the action and barrel out of the stock and wood. Then clean with normal cleaners and oil. The Boiling water evaps instantly so you dont have residual to deal with when cleaning for corrosive.

[da gimp]

I've single loaded 7.62NATO in a Russian semi only SVT40 7.62X54R, some cases split, accuracy dropped off to 4"-5" at 100 yds, cases had to be pried out of the chamber with a knife, but every round(out of 20) fired....