wtr100
06-18-2014, 10:42 AM
I help out at Scout camp. Rifle range director tells me our old Marlin 880 rifles (20k to 30k rounds through each rifle to date) are starting to misfire. Not sure if it was the Aquilla Ammo or the rifles but during Staff week each relay had at least two or three misfires. This might be a problem as there are new replacement parts for Marlin .22s these days I’m told.
Anyways I was planning to spend a nice Sunday afternoon giving the rifles a good cleaning before another summer of hard use. Maybe not hard use but a lot of use. I dunked the first bolt into a small pickle jar half full of Ed’s and proceed to scrub on the bolt face and extractor area. I notice a brown ‘stuff’ dripping out the opposite end of the bolt.
Long boring story shorter, seems the inside of the bolts and build up a layer of gunk / various lubes over the years. I switched to letting the bolts soak in Ed’s as I attended to bore and action. By the end of 17 bolts my Ed’s Red had turned to BSA Nasty Brown stuff.
After a week of full use there were only 3 rounds in the ‘bad round can’ where we toss duds.
So Ed’s Red ‘fixes’ .22 rifles!
Anyways I was planning to spend a nice Sunday afternoon giving the rifles a good cleaning before another summer of hard use. Maybe not hard use but a lot of use. I dunked the first bolt into a small pickle jar half full of Ed’s and proceed to scrub on the bolt face and extractor area. I notice a brown ‘stuff’ dripping out the opposite end of the bolt.
Long boring story shorter, seems the inside of the bolts and build up a layer of gunk / various lubes over the years. I switched to letting the bolts soak in Ed’s as I attended to bore and action. By the end of 17 bolts my Ed’s Red had turned to BSA Nasty Brown stuff.
After a week of full use there were only 3 rounds in the ‘bad round can’ where we toss duds.
So Ed’s Red ‘fixes’ .22 rifles!