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Off Topic" 303 Martini-Henry (Martini-Enfield)......
J.S. Wolf in his book on reloading the 45-70 Springfield,
http://www.4570book.info/,
told of having to clean an old 45-70 for over a month of brushing, wiping, repeat
day after day to get the baked in lead+residue out of old 45-70 Springfield's rifling grooves!
Well - from what I told about in my previous post, I came to the realization that that Martini-Enfield
is not "Shot Out".
How can it be if it had .303 Enfield Rifling and now slugs out to a SMOOTH .309 - .311 !?
Worn out would have worn
lands and slug out to .313 to .314 or larger !
Those grooves HAVE to be filled with 100 year old Chordite-Lead-Copper residue hardened
to a steel like hardness.
So - I have plugged the Muzzle with a Rubber Screw Cap (Lowes) that seals it and have
poured a mixture of 1:9 Hoppe's No. 9 and Rubbing Alcohol into the barrel for a LONG,
LONG, LONG, LONG, LONG, soak !
Rubbing Alcohol worked best to get that Black/Brown residue out at first -
I thought I was done ! Ha!
Ordering some Stainless Steel Brushes from Brownells.com to work that garbage out of those
grooves to expose the lands again.
DoctorBill