Foaming Bore Cleaner

[5ontarget]

I thought the sniper version of the MN's were those that had the receivers tapped for a scope.

My experience with MN's is the opposite of yours, the rifles/long guns have been much cleaner than the carbines. The carbines I have are the M38, not the M44's, that may be why?

I've been down the same road with the SKS. I've even struggled with it, with the safety on.

[TMan]

Yes, this had been previously tapped for a scope, but the scope had been removed and the holes filled in. However, it had a much nicer trigger than the ones that were $20 cheaper.

The other thing that I found out was when I cleaned the stock is that it wasn't one solid piece of wood, but had been patched. Nothing to the extent that my Finnish stock, which was made out of scrap wood. However, the Finnish stock wasn't finished, so it was very obvious - no surprises.

My 303 British was quite dirty, but nothing compared to this MN. However, I still consider myself quite fortunate that I've only got one bad purchase of my Mil-Surp's. Of course I'm assuming this MN isn't going to group well - I may be surprised. If it isn't too bad, then I'm going to try the fire-lapping method, but it won't be fore a couple of months. I've got more yard work to undertake for the next couple of months.

I still kick myself for not buying one of the Persian Mausers when they had them. Since I was new at this, I never dreamed they would sell out of them in a couple of days.