{"id":7370,"date":"2013-08-01T14:03:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T14:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramworks.net\/blog\/?p=7370"},"modified":"2015-10-25T19:57:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T19:57:06","slug":"dirty-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/dirty-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"Dirty Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I’ve been shooting guns a long time. And, I’ve been cleaning them too. After all the time I spent in the military and on the police range, today I found the dirtiest gun I have ever seen. I’ve been working on a .300 Blackout article for Shooting Illustrated. The article deals with .300 Blackout ammunition and after testing 10 loads in one rifle, the results suggested I needed to try another rifle. That “other” rifle was loaned to me by a manufacture who had recently used the rifle at a media event where gunwriter after gunwriter had pushed round after round down range.<\/p>\n

I notice the bolt on the AR did not want to go all the way into battery so I took it apart and it was like looking inside a coal furnace. It was all I could do to get the firing pin out and nothing else wanted to move. I’m on a deadline here and the weather being what it has been along with other pressing deadlines, I had to shoot this rifle today. What to do?<\/p>\n

I grabbed a can of Ballistol and sprayed the bolt like I was coating a swimsuit model in tanning oil. 10 minutes later I went back and the bolt carrier came apart just like it was supposed to. After about 20 minutes of judicious cleaning the rifle was right as rain.<\/p>\n

Conclusions: carbon fouling has got nothing on Ballistol and gun makers should make gunwriters clean the guns they shoot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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