Two of my final milsurp rifle buys showed up, I can't afford anymore.........
The Yugo 24/47 arrived today along with it's British "cousin"......... Not that they're related in any way......... My Enfield #4 Mk1. Will get some photos later.
First thing was to do a visual inspection and check to make sure everything worked properly, all is well there. Then I checked the bores, the Enfield looks like it has never been fired on the other hand the 24/47 had tons of crud in it. Ran a wet (Windex) brass brush down multiple times then used a (musket) cleaning jag that was slightly smaller than the bore. A lot of build up down toward the breach the jag made quick work of, ran the brush down a few more times then followed up with patches wet with Windex. Took about 5 or 6 patches before they stopped coming out black then I ran a couple of dry patches down followed by oiled patches. The breach area was filthy also, cleaned it and the bolt then oiled everything.
I was almost scared to look down the barrel and see major pitting but amazingly there was none. Barrel is bright and shiny and the rifling looks crisp.
Think I'm going to have to strip the whole gun down and make sure it's completely clean.
The Enfield story is it was built in 1944 and flown over to supply the French partisans who actually never used them and were stored in a French weapons bunker. Another possibility is they were provided to the French Army and Police after the war and were stored when the French had rebuilt their arsenal. Both rifles are all matching numbers.
The Yugo 24/47 arrived today along with it's British "cousin"......... Not that they're related in any way......... My Enfield #4 Mk1. Will get some photos later.
First thing was to do a visual inspection and check to make sure everything worked properly, all is well there. Then I checked the bores, the Enfield looks like it has never been fired on the other hand the 24/47 had tons of crud in it. Ran a wet (Windex) brass brush down multiple times then used a (musket) cleaning jag that was slightly smaller than the bore. A lot of build up down toward the breach the jag made quick work of, ran the brush down a few more times then followed up with patches wet with Windex. Took about 5 or 6 patches before they stopped coming out black then I ran a couple of dry patches down followed by oiled patches. The breach area was filthy also, cleaned it and the bolt then oiled everything.
I was almost scared to look down the barrel and see major pitting but amazingly there was none. Barrel is bright and shiny and the rifling looks crisp.
Think I'm going to have to strip the whole gun down and make sure it's completely clean.
The Enfield story is it was built in 1944 and flown over to supply the French partisans who actually never used them and were stored in a French weapons bunker. Another possibility is they were provided to the French Army and Police after the war and were stored when the French had rebuilt their arsenal. Both rifles are all matching numbers.
