pkbites
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I inherited a rifle, a Springfield model 15. It's in good shape except it is really DIRTY! It looks like it was fired a bunch of times and then not cleaned for 30 years. There is a hard patch of gummed residue inside the chamber and the bolt is hard to pull back because of the gummed up dirt.
I've had firearms my entire life, but I've never had to deal with something as extreme as this. It is really, really gunked up and dirty.
Should I take the barrel/receiver off the stock and just soak it in Gun Scrubber for a long time and then try to clean this goop off?
Or is there something else I should try? This is extreme gunky build up like semi-hardened chewing gum.
I inherited a rifle, a Springfield model 15. It's in good shape except it is really DIRTY! It looks like it was fired a bunch of times and then not cleaned for 30 years. There is a hard patch of gummed residue inside the chamber and the bolt is hard to pull back because of the gummed up dirt.
I've had firearms my entire life, but I've never had to deal with something as extreme as this. It is really, really gunked up and dirty.
Should I take the barrel/receiver off the stock and just soak it in Gun Scrubber for a long time and then try to clean this goop off?
Or is there something else I should try? This is extreme gunky build up like semi-hardened chewing gum.