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Pics of what happens when you clean a Monin Nagant stock with Easy Off over cleaner.
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<blockquote data-quote="morcey2" data-source="post: 1134500" data-attributes="member: 71004"><p>Be careful with oven cleaner. It will start to break down the wood fibers on the surface and cause damage that won't show up for a little while. On refurbished russian/soviet mosins, the finish is almost always shellac and will come off almost instantly with denatured alcohol. The bleach in the Comet will also cause damage to the wood fibers. </p><p></p><p>As for Mausers, most of them are either BLO or Tung Oil with a nice top coat of cosmoline. Finnish mosins can have anything from an oil finish to pine tar, which is actually quite attractive especially on birch stocks. (I'll post a couple of pics when I find them)</p><p></p><p>I've used regular stripper (zip strip and clean strip) on lots of stocks to get the original finish off and then lots of low heat to get the majority of the cosmoline out. The dashboard of a truck in the summer works great for that. Set it out in the morning on some paper towels. Wipe it off with some mineral spirits or denatured alcohol in the evening before it cools. Repeat as needed. If you don't get the cosmoline out, it will gradually come to the surface and darken it when the stock gets warm. You can see a little bit of it in the end-grains behind the tang on your stock. The darkening itself isn't a big deal, but if there's enough cosmoline, it can lift the new finish. BLO also darkens as it ages. </p><p></p><p>As for reloading, I picked up 300 Lapua cases when they were on sale at $35-ish/100 a couple of years ago. Those, along with CCI 200 primers, 45 gr of Varget, and 174 gr HPBT Hornady bullets (0.312", not 0.3105") shoot well in all of my mosins. The 150 gr SP Hornady bullets also shoot well with 47 gr of Varget. None of mine are what you'd call tack-drivers, but they do shoot well. The one that shoots the best is the one with the worst bore. It's a Finn-captured 1933 Tula M91/30 that looks like it was used to club a Panzer tank into the ground. I picked it up really cheap (because I'm a sucker for Finnish mosins) and the bore was the proverbial sewer-pipe. I scrubbed it a little to get the loose stuff out (and there was a lot of it) and then used a couple of rounds of Gunslick foaming bore cleaner. It still looked bad, but at least I could see the grooves. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> It has an M39 trigger (with the two roll-pins through the trigger) and it shoots about 1 1/2" at 100 yards with the 174 gr bullets. </p><p></p><p>Matt</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="morcey2, post: 1134500, member: 71004"] Be careful with oven cleaner. It will start to break down the wood fibers on the surface and cause damage that won't show up for a little while. On refurbished russian/soviet mosins, the finish is almost always shellac and will come off almost instantly with denatured alcohol. The bleach in the Comet will also cause damage to the wood fibers. As for Mausers, most of them are either BLO or Tung Oil with a nice top coat of cosmoline. Finnish mosins can have anything from an oil finish to pine tar, which is actually quite attractive especially on birch stocks. (I'll post a couple of pics when I find them) I've used regular stripper (zip strip and clean strip) on lots of stocks to get the original finish off and then lots of low heat to get the majority of the cosmoline out. The dashboard of a truck in the summer works great for that. Set it out in the morning on some paper towels. Wipe it off with some mineral spirits or denatured alcohol in the evening before it cools. Repeat as needed. If you don't get the cosmoline out, it will gradually come to the surface and darken it when the stock gets warm. You can see a little bit of it in the end-grains behind the tang on your stock. The darkening itself isn't a big deal, but if there's enough cosmoline, it can lift the new finish. BLO also darkens as it ages. As for reloading, I picked up 300 Lapua cases when they were on sale at $35-ish/100 a couple of years ago. Those, along with CCI 200 primers, 45 gr of Varget, and 174 gr HPBT Hornady bullets (0.312", not 0.3105") shoot well in all of my mosins. The 150 gr SP Hornady bullets also shoot well with 47 gr of Varget. None of mine are what you'd call tack-drivers, but they do shoot well. The one that shoots the best is the one with the worst bore. It's a Finn-captured 1933 Tula M91/30 that looks like it was used to club a Panzer tank into the ground. I picked it up really cheap (because I'm a sucker for Finnish mosins) and the bore was the proverbial sewer-pipe. I scrubbed it a little to get the loose stuff out (and there was a lot of it) and then used a couple of rounds of Gunslick foaming bore cleaner. It still looked bad, but at least I could see the grooves. :) It has an M39 trigger (with the two roll-pins through the trigger) and it shoots about 1 1/2" at 100 yards with the 174 gr bullets. Matt [/QUOTE]
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