Russian ammo/cleaning

spearman

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After shooting Russian ammo,do you scrub with soap and water or ammonia and water[recommended in Soviet manuals],or do you just use regular cleaning fluid[Hoppes9,CLP,ect.]?
 
They must think it's necessary or it wouldn't be in the book.
Not all "Russian" ammo is corrosive though, and the manual is pertaining to military ammo.
 
Yes. The stuff imported from Tula is non-corrosive.

I have some old Berdan primer .308 that was made on contract in a Soviet bloc country that was sold as non-corrosive, but gave my M1-A barrel a nice reddish-brown fuzz. It had been made by S&B in 1982, before the fall of the wall, and I shot it eleven years later. I asked S&B about it and they told me their records from the iron curtain days were not yet computerized, so he couldn't tell me anything about the lot number, but could say that even though they catalogued only non-corrosive primers back then, a custom order that was large enough would be whatever the customer asked for.
 
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