You want to thoroughly clean off cosmoline in the chamber and in the bore. Cosmoline left in the chamber becomes hard and sticky when heated and cooled from shooting. Eventually it gets baked on and is one of few culprits of a sticky bolt. Sticky bolts are not fun and can range from minor to sever. In severe cases, when the chamber gets hot from firing rounds, your bolt can get stuck closed and you literally need to pound it open with a mallet or a big stick to get it open. It's generally a good idea to remove all cosmoline on the exterior in a detailed strip if you don't want it to start crudding and crusting up when it starts to get old and dry up.
When you say mineral salts, do you mean mineral spirits? Never heard mineral salts being used, but I do use mineral spirits to clean cosmoline off my guns, heh.
Oops, yeah that's what I meant. Major brain fart there. Shows what happens when you try to write posts with fatigue.
Guess I'll try to clean some more cosmoline out. Sticky bolts are never any fun.
So is SSP out of the hex?
I would believe so. I picked up one and jduff picked up another. I heard they only had a couple (maybe two)? left.
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